Sustainability & Climate Finance.
Renewable energy, the environmental economy, industrialization strategy, and logistics.
Can the New Strategy Achieve Bangladesh’s Renewable Energy Targets?
Bangladesh has made renewable energy promises before. The 2008 policy aimed for 10 per cent of power from renewables by 2020. A 500 MW solar programme followed in 2012, then the 2023 Integrated Energy and Power Master Plan. In 2025, a new policy arrived alongside a National Rooftop Solar Programme that aimed to add 3,000 […]
Bangladesh Needs One Green Bond Taxonomy, not Three
Bangladesh has been building a green finance framework for over a decade. It started early and is still, in some ways, ahead of its peers. But the framework has grown in pieces, issued by different regulators at different times for different issuers. The result is a green bond market with more than one rulebook and […]
Farakka Day: Will Bangladesh Receive Fair Share of Water this Time After Expiry of 30-year Deal?
With the 1996 Ganges Treaty expiring in December 2026, Bangladesh faces a critical deadline to secure its downstream survival and river rights. To avoid a looming water crisis, the nation must urgently pivot from emotional rhetoric to data-driven diplomacy and international water law.