Energy

WB supports $600mn project to ensure rural power supply

The $600 million Rural Electricity Transmission and Distribution project aims at ensuring reliable electricity supply to rural area, with increasing power generation capacity, reducing system loss

Publication Date: 
06/04/2015
Daily Sun (Bangladesh)
Tags:
Energy, World Bank, Rural Electrification, Bangladesh, Electricity, Power Transmission, South Asia
Climate Change

Regional climate change talks begin in Khulna tomorrow

Bangladesh will host a three-day regional consultation of the “Nansen Initiative” on climate change, disasters, and human mobility in South Asia and the Indian Ocean region, beginning tomorrow in K

Publication Date: 
02/04/2015
Daily Star (Bangladesh)
Tags:
Climate Change, Khulna, Bangladesh, Natural Disasters, South Asia, Cyclones
Climate Change

The role of microfinance and microfinance institutions in climate change adaptation: learning from experiences in Bangladesh

This report aims to: conceptualise and analyse the relationships between microfinance and adaptation, map out what could be considered good microfinance practice for adaptation, or “adaptation-oriented microfinance,” and identify types of adaptation projects and activities that microfinance institutions (MFIs) could be involved in to take full

Publication Date: 
01/04/2015
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Adaptation, Finance, Bangladesh, Adaptation Fund, Natural Disasters, Climate Impacts, Poverty
Water Resources

Water savings potentials of irrigation systems: dynamic global simulation

Global agricultural production is heavily sustained by irrigation, but irrigation system efficiencies are often surprisingly low. However, our knowledge of irrigation efficiencies
is mostly confined to rough indicative estimates for countries or regions that do not account for spatio-temporal heterogeneity due to climate and other biophysical dependencies. To allow for refined estimates of global agricultural water use, and of water saving and water productivity potentials constrained by biophysical processes

Publication Date: 
01/04/2015
J. Jägermeyr, D. Gerten, J. Heinke & et al
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
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3593–3644
Tags:
Irrigation, Water Conservation, India, Bangladesh, Indus, Ganga, Mahanadi, South Asia, Pakistan, Africa, Europe, Agriculture
Energy

Japan accused of financing coal-fired power plants

Despite mounting protests, Japan continues to finance the building of coal-fired power plants with money earmarked for fighting climate change, with two new projects underway in India and Banglades

Publication Date: 
30/03/2015
Japan Times (Japan)
Tags:
Energy, Coal, Thermal Power Plants, Climate Change, Japan, Finance, Bangladesh, India, South Asia, Carbon Dioxide
Water Supply

Korean firm, Wasa team up to improve water supply network

Korean company Kunhwa Engineering will rehabilitate and expand 376 kilometres of water pipelines for Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority.

Publication Date: 
30/03/2015
Daily Star (Bangladesh)
Tags:
Water Supply, Drinking Water, Dhaka, Bangladesh, South Asia
Food Policy

Around 1,105 ethnic families attain food security in Rajshahi

RAJSHAHI : By dint of their relentless and sincere efforts, more than 1,105 underprivileged ethnic families of 26 villages under Godagari upazila of the district have attained food security and sel

Publication Date: 
30/03/2015
Bangladesh Today
Tags:
Food Policy, Food Security, Nutrition, Bangladesh, South Asia
Natural Disasters

WB to construct 330 new disaster shelters by 2017

DHAKA : The World Bank (WB) will construct at least 330 new cyclone shelters in the cyclone prone areas of Bangladesh by 2017, reports BSS.

Publication Date: 
30/03/2015
Bangladesh Today
Tags:
Natural Disasters, World Bank, Disaster Management, Cyclones, Bangladesh, South Asia
Water Supply

Drinking water crisis turns acute in Sherpur Garo hill areas

People of frontier Jhenaigati, Sribordi, Nalitabari upazila of Sherpur district are suffering for want of pure drinking water in this dry season.

Publication Date: 
30/03/2015
New Nation (Bangladesh)
Tags:
Water Supply, Drinking Water, Drinking Water Scarcity, Sherpur, Bangladesh, South Asia
Agriculture

Rejoinder of published news about Bt Brinjal

The news has published on dated 22 March 2015 in your daily about Bt Brinjal but Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) authority did not agree with this report.

Publication Date: 
30/03/2015
New Nation (Bangladesh)
Tags:
Agriculture, Bt Brinjal, GM Crops, Biosafety, GMOs, Genetic Engineering, Bangladesh, South Asia

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