Climate change impacts in Bangladesh
With the Himalayas to the north and the Bay of Bengal to the south, Bangladesh sits on one of the world’s largest and most densely populated deltas, where the Jamuna, Padma and Meghna rivers converge.
Bangladesh
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Towards a rooftop solar transition in Bangladesh
While rooftop solar has struggled to gain traction in Bangladesh, a renewed focus and adding 2,000 megawatts (MW) can help the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) save up to Bangladeshi Taka (Tk)
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Adapting to the impacts of extreme heat on Bangladesh’s labour force
The impact of global warming on the labour force is already evident and is unequally distributed across the world. Global economic inequality is rising due to global warming, with hotter, poorer countries
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Centring local values in assessing and addressing climate-related losses and damages
There is a limited understanding of the intangible and subjective losses and damages from climate change people experience and how to address them. Fortunately, the number of studies explicitly focusing
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Social benefits of clean energy: evidence from Bangladesh
Using the three rounds of the Bangladesh Integrated Household Surveys, this study attempts to quantify the welfare effects of solar adoption. Discovered that solar adoption is connected with increased
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Sustainable management of crop residues in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan: challenges and solutions
This paper provides a subregional overview on the status of crop residue management in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. Based on findings from national studies undertaken, the paper provides a summary
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Charting an electricity sector transition pathway for Bangladesh
Bangladesh should aim for renewables to make up 40% of its total power generation capacity by 2041, says this report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), which charts a
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Community perspectives on climate resilience in Bangladesh
This report presents key findings and insights from a series of short surveys to gauge people's evolving sense of the way things are panning out for them on the ground to build a 36-degree perspective
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Welfare and climate risks in coastal Bangladesh: the impacts of climatic extremes on multidimensional poverty and the wider benefits of climate adaptation
It is widely recognized that climate hazards impact the poor disproportionately. However, quantifying these disproportionate hazard impacts on a large scale is difficult given limited information on households’
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding capsizing of a barge resulting in spilling of flyash in Sundarbans, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, 13/03/2023
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Dakshin Banga Matsyajibi Forum Vs Inland Waterways Authority of India & Others dated 13/03/2023.</p> <p><a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/barge-capsizing-Sundarbans-flyash-NGT-order-March13-2023.pdf"