About The Book

Climate change is a lived reality for millions—especially in Bangladesh’s coastal regions, where rising seas, disasters, eroding lands, and salted waters threaten daily survival. Those least responsible bear the heaviest burden, as the global crisis unfolds through local injustice. While powerful nations debate policy, frontline communities are left to rebuild their homes and futures, again and again. This crisis is not just about the climate—it’s about inequality, neglect, and whose lives are valued.

"Lives on the Edge of Climate Change: Struggle, Hope and the Future" is a visual and narrative journey into the lives of people in Bangladesh’s climate-vulnerable coastal regions. Through twelve intimate, community-rooted stories, this photobook sheds light on the daily realities of families who live at the frontline of climate change—despite contributing the least to its causes.

Set against the backdrop of the world’s largest delta, the book illustrates how rising sea levels, salinity intrusion, floods, cyclones, and river erosion are not just climate phenomena, but deeply personal experiences that shape lives, livelihoods, and entire generations. From broken embankments in Satkhira to the vanishing forests of Maheshkhali, each story echoes the pain of loss, the resilience of adaptation, and the fierce will to survive.

But this is not a book of despair. It is also a book of action and possibility. Here, women lead climate movements, rebuild freshwater ponds, and create climate-smart livelihoods. Entrepreneurs craft bamboo products and date-leaf baskets, while others cultivate salt-tolerant mangroves, raise honeybees, or champion feminist leadership to build back fairer. These community-driven efforts are supported under the Blue Economy and Inclusive Development for Climate Justice (BID4CJ) project. 

Ultimately, this book challenges the reader to reflect on climate justice, gender inequality, and the urgent need for inclusive, sustainable solutions. Through compelling photographs and storytelling, this publication calls on the key stakeholders including from the global north to listen, learn, and act. Because the future of our planet depends on what we do now to save environment and communities like those featured in these pages. Let’s act now, leaving no one behind.