21 July 2025, Bangkok – Policymakers, academia, civil society members, indigenous peoples’ organisations and researchers working on climate change would come together to understand climate change risks in the Meghna river basin and find ways to build resilience of the communities dependent on it.
The Meghna river basin is shared by Bangladesh and India and serves as a ‘biogeographical gateway’ as it is located between the Indian, Indo-Malayan and Indo-China biogeographical realms and works as a transition zone.
Stretched over an area of 82,000 square kilometres, more than 50 million people, including the Khasi, Garo and Jaintia indigenous communities, depend on the river’s ecosystem services.
