Dhaka: the city where climate refugees are already a reality

Every day, another 2,000 people move to the Bangladeshi capital. It's nothing new - for generations Dhaka has been a magnet for those escaping rural poverty - but now climate change is accelerating the race to the city

Parul Akter travelled across Bangladesh to escape the flood waters, but they seem to have followed her. The shack she shares with her husband and four children in Dhaka, the nation's capital, sits on the edge of the sprawling Korail slum - next to a lake. When it rains, dank water sloshes into their shelter. Only the bed, raised up on bricks, stays dry. "This room is all we have, so we need to stay here no matter what happens," said Akter.

Seven years ago, a monsoon flood left nothing standing in their village, located in Bhola on the country's south-west coast. "We had no option but to climb up the banks with our belongings immediately," said Akter. "Within a week, we moved to Dhaka to start a new life."