question: Bangladesh has made tremendous progress in poverty reduction over the past years and is now battling against the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. The combined impacts of COVID-19 and climate change have derailed the progress of poverty reduction by creating a pool of “new poor” that is making poor people poorer and leading extreme poor into destitute. Climate change, COVID-19 and poverty interact and are interlinked with each other to increase the vulnerability of the population creating a long-lasting socio-economic crisis, food insecurity, inequalities, gender-based violence and discriminations against poor, marginalized and vulnerable groups. In order to address the current and impending challenges in the progress towards poverty reduction, a comprehensive and holistic approach is needed to implement a pro-poor strategy addressing climate change resilience, green economic recovery and sustainable development that will promote climate adaptive agricultural diversification, infrastructural development for safeguarding the vulnerable households, health and social security, creating employment opportunities, labour-intensive and export-orientated manufacturing-related inclusive green growth, modern service sector and overseas employment for transformative adaptation, youth development and entrepreneurship. Therefore, this chapter explores the issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change vulnerability that contributes to poverty, affect the path for eradication of poverty and policy response undertaken by the country to address these crises. Graphical Abstract:. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.