Dhaka Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026
- No Plan to Provide New Gas Connections to Household Sector
- All Quick Rental Power Plants Retired: Power Minister
- Fuel Oil Sales: BPC Incurring Daily Loss of Tk 780 Million
- It Will Take Time to Break Free from the Cycle of Corruption in the Power Sector: Information Minister
- Electricity Prices Increased for All Consumers
- Approval Given to Purchase Three LNG Cargoes
- Diesel, Kerosene Prices Cut By 50p For November
- AI Boom To Fuel Natural Gas Demand In Coming Years, Report Says
- Bangladesh signs €477m deals with EU and EIB for renewable energy and more
- The Current Oil Price Rally Is Reaching Its Limits
Environment
Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Adviser to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and the Ministry of Water Resources, stated that “While the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the obligations of states in respect of climate change may not be legally binding, it will significantly bolster moral courage in pushing for changes to global climate policies amid today’s adverse geopolitical reality. This opinion will create... » 
Dhaka, 30 July 2025: The Department of Environment has disconnected the electricity and gas connections of nine factories in Gazipur for polluting the environment. These factories were operating without Effluent Treatment Plants (ETPs), while some had ETPs but were not operating them. As a result, they were reportedly polluting nearby rivers and canals, according to the Department. The factories affected are: • Lee Novotex (Pvt.) Ltd., Board Bazar (electricity and... » 
Dhaka, Wednesday, July 23, 2025: Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Advisor to the Ministry of Water Resources and the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, stated that the critical rivers across the country we must be saved. To this end, she instructed the River Research Institute to prepare a list of these rivers. The advisor made these remarks today, Wednesday (July 23), while presiding over the 56th board meeting of the... » 
Workmen plant electricity poles in the rust-orange earth of the Navajo Nation and run cables to Christine Shorty’s house — finally giving her power against the searing Arizona desert heat. It will be a luxury in the vast Native American reservation, the largest in the United States, where more than 10,000 families are still without electricity and therefore air conditioning. “It’s climate change. It’s getting hotter,” Shorty tells AFP. “This... » 
DHAKA, June 25, 2025 (BSS) – Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today urged all to avoid usages of plastic items to protect environment and planet. “If we do not change our lifestyle, our defeat to plastic is obvious,” he told a function as the chief guest at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre here marking the World Environment Day. Prof Yunus said the humans are destroying nature but they could not... » 
20th May 2025: The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has approved a new US$70 million project to support rural communities in flood-prone and drought-prone regions adapt to environmental shocks and improve their livelihoods. Report UNB The Climate Resilient Agriculture and Livelihood Enhancement Project (CRALEP) received formal approval at IFAD’s 144th Executive Board session in Rome recently, IFAD said on Tuesday. It will be implemented by the Local Government Engineering... » 
Press Release, Dhaka (Monday, 21 April 2025): The government has decided to prohibit the establishment of any new industrial ventures or projects within the 10-kilometer Ecologically Critical Area (ECA) surrounding the Sundarbans. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change will soon issue an official gazette notification in this regard. This decision was taken at the 16th meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Environment and Climate Change Committee... » 
Dhaka, 16 April: Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Advisor to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and the Ministry of Water Resources, has said that strict legal action will be taken against anyone found burning waste in open areas such as Matuail and Aminbazar. Both government and non-government individuals involved in such activities will be identified and held accountable. She emphasized that construction materials must be covered to reduce air... » 
Dhaka, April 12, 2025: Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Advisor to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Ministry of Water Resources, stressed that today’s youth must lead a paradigm shift towards sustainable, inclusive models of entrepreneurship — ones that aim for Zero Exclusion, Zero Carbon, and Zero Poverty. “Even if not all ideas become successful projects, the values they are nurturing — empathy, responsibility, and environmental compatibility — will... »
The Trump administration, pursuing its deeply skeptical approach to climate change, wants to severely cut back the research arm of a government agency that plays a pivotal role in global climate science, US media reported Friday. The administration plans to ask Congress, which sets the budgets for federal agencies, to cut funding for research labs and offices overseeing climate studies in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), according to... »