Welcome to the President's Inbox, a CFR podcast about the foreign policy challenges facing the United States.

I'm Jim Lindsay, Director of Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

This week's topic is, what climate change means for the Bay of Bengal region.

Thank you. climate change means for the Bay of Bengal region. Today's episode is the fourth in a special series of episodes on the President's inbox

that look at how climate change is affecting life, society, and conflict in different regions

around the world. A generous grant from the Carnegie

Corporation of New York has made this series possible. With me to discuss how climate change is

affecting people living in the Bay of Bengal region is Saurang Shadore. Saurang is a director of studies

and a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for

Responsible Statecraft. He is also a senior non-resident fellow at the Council on Strategic Risks.

He recently wrote a discussion paper for CFR's Center for Preventive Action titled

Climate Change and Instability in the Bay of Bengal region.

Saurang, thank you for joining me.

Thank you very much for having me.

If I may, Saurang, I'd like to begin with sort of the big geographical question,

because I'm not sure how many people really know that much about the countries

in the Bay of Bengal or what their makeup is, size, and the rest. So you give us sort of a primer

on the Bay of Bengal region? Right. So the Bay of Bengal region is, forms a sort of a, it is a sea,

it is a large body of water that lies

in the northern part of the Indian Ocean.

So you can sort of say that it's the part of the Indian Ocean, but it's its own distinct

maritime space because it is enclosed by a number of countries.

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