“…Bangladesh is confronting both predictable and unpredictable climate change impacts every year (Mukhopadhyay et al 2022;Chakraborty 2023;Khan 2019Haque et al 2020;Ali et al 2019;Hasnat et al 2020;Chiba et al 2017;Alam et al 2020;Billah 2018;Dastagir 2015;Rahman 2020;Rahman 2021 a, b;Rahman et al 2021;Rahman 2022). The Sundarbans Delta is struggling with multiple climatic hazards like tropical cyclones, storm surges, and salinization (Chakrabarty 2023;Tuladhar 2023;Samanta et al 2021;Visions 2023;Chakraborty et al 2023). Most of the rivers of Bangladesh flow from north to south, silting up the mangroves delta and draining into the Bay of Bengal (van Maren et al 2023;Bandyopadhyay et al 2023).…”