Keep updated with, and share the latest news from, about and of interest to community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Bangladesh.
Unrest in Bangladesh reflects young people’s struggle to find decent work in the world’s poorest nations, theconversation.com (Aug 20, 2024) - Women in the Sundarbans embracing mangrove restoration as an alternative livelihood, news.mongabay.com (Aug 15, 2024)
- Reverse in endangered fish’s slide to extinction helped by Indigenous effort in Bangladesh, news.mongabay.com (Jan 19, 2024)
2022-2023[edit | edit source]
- How Bangladesh is supporting climate refugees, BBC Future (Dec 07, 2023)
- We rarely hear about the disasters that were avoided – but there’s a lot we can learn from them, theconversation.com (Nov 23, 2023)
- Sundarbans tiger and prey numbers rise amid Bangladesh conservation efforts, news.mongabay.com (Sep 11, 2023)
- ‘Peace of mind at last’: the Bangladeshi villagers digging their way out of the floods, The Guardian (May 04, 2023)
- Climate change and rapid urbanization blamed for the worst flood in over a century in northeastern Bangladesh, Global Voices (Jun 29, 2022)
2017-2021[edit | edit source]
Bangladesh scraps plans to build 10 coal-fired power plants. June 28, 2021...[1]
- New Global Coalition launched to address impacts of Climate Change, Jan 25, 2021...[2] Developed by the UK in partnership with Egypt, Bangladesh, Malawi, the Netherlands, Saint Lucia and the United Nations, this new Coalition will work to turn international political commitments made through the United Nations Call for Action on Adaptation and Resilience into on-the-ground support for vulnerable communities.
- Solar-Powered Trike Ambulance In Bangladesh, Feb 18, 2017...[3]
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2014-2016[edit | edit source]
'Swarm Electrification' in Bangladesh Lets Neighbours Swap Solar Electricity, Nov 29[1]
- In Rural Bangladesh, Solar Power Dents Poverty, Oct 4[2]
- Saving Bangladesh's last rainforest, Sep 21[3]
- Rajshahi: the city that took on air pollution – and won, Jun 17[4]
- How Bangladeshi inventors are making eco-friendly air conditioners from plastic bottles, Jun 2[5]
- Bangladesh fires up large-scale solar to boost power generation, November 20, 2015[6]
- Solar-Powered Pumps Reduce Irrigation Costs in Bangladesh, September 8, 2015[7]
- The Solar Energy Revolution Everyone's Ignoring… Is In Bangladesh, October 25, 2014...[8]
- Bangladesh going solar in a big way, May 12, 2014...[9]
- Climate disasters threaten Bangladesh's social gains, January 22, 2014...[10]
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2009-2010[edit | edit source]
- Bangladesh sets new world record – five million high quality Compact fluorescent lamp Ws distributed to Bangladeshi homes,[1] July 26, 2010.
- Island's disappearance attributed to global warming,[2] March 25, 2010.
- "It is predicted that 18 percent of our coastal area will be submerged and 20 million people will be displaced. Are our political parties aware of these issues?"[3] March 25, 2010.
- Bangladesh, India: The Relationship Between Water Crisis And Migration,[4] by Rezwan, February 19, 2010. Sowmya Suryanarayanan at Strategic Foresight opines that the lack of freshwater resources in Bangladesh "is a massive threat and will remain a primary reason for cross border migration in the future."
- An ordinary citizen highlights the crusade of some local media to save the rivers of Dhaka from pollution,[5] September 21, 2009.
- 2009 SEED Award Winners,[6] May 12, 2009.
- "Solar conversion of traditional kerosene hurricane lamps". A national NGO in partnership with a local NGO and a cooperative have developed an innovative device called "SuryaHurricane", a low-cost solar lantern made from recycled parts of the conventional and much used kerosene lantern.
- "Generating local economy through regenerating local resources". A cooperation between a national NGO, a research institution and a small-sized business aims to avoid bio-diversity losses and degradation of the agricultural lands, by recycling waste from rice-growing for the production of cement that will be used in the production of low cost housing materials.
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