‘The government will install a solar power plant in Sulla upazila of Sunamganj district [#Sylhet] aiming to give the people of remote haor (wetland) areas access to solar energy facilities.
The solar power plant will be installed under a project involving Tk 29 crore with finance from the Climate Trust Fund and the government of Bangladesh.’
By combining aquaculture with wet paddy farming in its coastal areas Bangladesh can meet food security and climate change issues, says a report.
The approach promises more nutritious food without causing environmental damage, and has the potential for a “blue-green revolution” on Bangladesh’s existing crop areas, extending to about 10m hectares (25m acres) and an additional nearly 3m hectares that remain waterlogged for four to six months.
Bangladesh has immense potential for using renewable energy as a sustainable solution for the tourism destinations’ quest to become greener and efficient. There are viable levels of sources for renewable energy as well. However for constraints lying within renewable energy solutions must be taken care of.
Prof Dr Md Ashraful Islam Chowdhury, Department of Marketing, University of Dhaka said this while presenting the keynote paper on “Greening Tourism Destinations of Bangladesh Is Renewable Energy a Sustainable Solution?” at award giving ceremony of Bangladesh Tourism Foundation.
Sylhet is ill-prepared for earthquakes due to lack of awareness and unplanned urbanization, say experts.
“Total disregard for the national building code by the builders has left Dhaka extremely susceptible,” said earthquake expert and civil engineer Mehedi Ahmed Ansary, from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET).
A government policy to promote renewable energy has lured a large number of new entrants into the business, particularly for solar panel installations, sector people said.
In the last two years, nearly 100 firms and NGOs have appeared on the scene to sell technologies including solar home systems, water heaters, irrigation pumps, street lights and their accessories and batteries.
Bangladesh’s high-growth mobile phone sector is buying into disaster risk reduction, and the cyclone-affected costal region stands to gain most, say government officials, aid workers and private sector sources.
By the beginning of 2012, the Disaster Management Bureau (DMB) will team up with the country’s largest mobile phone provider Grameenphone, and state-run mobile phone company Teletalk, to provide early warnings for cyclones and floods to all 14 coastal districts.
Bangladesh’s population stands at 150.5 million in 2011, according to a UN projection released on Wednesday, five-days ahead of when the world population is expected to reach 7 billion, ‘a milestone, but also a wake-up call.’
The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) in its annual flagship publication State of World Population 2011 also indicated the number of males and females at 76.2 million and 74.3 million respectively, and pegged the country’s annual population growth rate at 1.3 percent.
A UK-based power company plans to set up a solar panel manufacturing plant and a diesel-run power generator producing plant in Bangladesh to expand its business and help the country meet the soaring demand for energy, a top official said.
“My immediate plan is to do something quickly as Bangladesh is growing very fast and so the demand for solar energy products. I’m not going to wait,” said Steve Bandey, managing director of Transformers & Rectifiers Ltd (T&R).
January 28th 2005 – A developer in Dhaka may claim that his building can withstand a Magnitude 8 (Richter scale) earthquake. This statement can be misleading, because in Dhaka we do not have to design our buildings for such large earthquake. The known earthquake sources that can produce large earthquakes are far away from Dhaka. In fact, earthquake resistant building design at a particular place is based on specified ground shaking (known as intensity) for that location and not on earthquake magnitude. It is important to understand the difference between these basic terms used for describing the strength and effect of earthquakes.
A moderate earthquake has shaken Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, Faridpur and some other parts of the country, panicking people out of their homes Sunday evening, but no damage has been reported yet.
The tremor, measured at 6.8 on the Richter scale, jolted the country for about 10 to 15 seconds around 6:42pm BdST.
Its epicentre was in Sikkim, India and the coordinates were 27.8 north and 88.2 east, according to Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
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