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Management of Climate-Induced National Security: Paradigm Shift from Geopolitics to Carbon Politics
On an official visit by the Australian parliamentary secretary for the Pacific Islands to Bangladesh’s climate vulnerable island, Char Kukri Mukri, on 12 November 2011, the secretary commented that the island is the ground zero for climate change (CC) (the author himself was present at the address ceremony). The term ‘ground zero’ used by the honourable secretary signifies the impending danger of CC not only to this island but to the entire South Asian region.