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পলিথিনের ব্যবহার বন্ধের সম্ভাব্যতা দেখতে কমিটি

জরুরি প্রয়োজন ছাড়া সবক্ষেত্রে পলিথিনের ব্যবহার বন্ধের সম্ভাব্যতা খতিয়ে দেখতে তিন সদস্যের একটি উপ-কমিটি গঠন করেছে পরিবেশ ও বন মন্ত্রণালয় সম্পর্কিত সংসদীয় স্থায়ী কমিটি। রোববার সংসদ ভবনে অনুষ্ঠিত বৈঠকে কমিটির সদস্য টিপু সুলতানকে আহ্বায়ক করে এই উপ-কমিটি গঠনের সিদ্ধান্ত নেওয়া হয় বলে সংসদ সচিবালয়ের এক সংবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তিতে জানানো হয়। উপ-কমিটিকে সংসদীয় কমিটির আগামী বৈঠকে প্রতিবেদন দেওয়ার […]

Youth Team from Bangladesh Join Green Youth Citizens Training in New Delhi, India

Five members  of Bangladesh’s youth team attended the International Green Youth training from July 20 to 27 in New Delhi, India. The training was organized by the European Commission funded “Green Youth Citizens” project. 27 participants from partner organizations in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Romania, Turkey and Spain attended. Under the leadership of Environment and Social […]

Bangladesh must exploit green energy potential

Bangladesh has strong potential to exploit wind power and meet growing demand for green electricity, analysts said yesterday. The 700km-long coastline in the coastal region of Bangladesh provides good prospects to develop offshore wind energy, said Anette Galskjøt, commercial counsellor of Danida Business Partnerships of Denmark in Bangladesh. The hilly regions in Chittagong and Sylhet […]

Bangladesh 4th most polluted in world

Bangladesh has been ranked fourth among 91 countries with worst urban air quality in the latest air pollution monitoring report of World Health Organisation (WHO). Moreover, three Bangladeshi cities have been put among the top 25 cities with poorest air. The 2014 version of the Ambient Air Pollution (AAP) database consists mainly of urban air […]

Dhaka among most air polluted cities: WB

Dhaka ranks highly amongst the world’s major cities in terms of poor urban air quality. A project of World Bank titled “Better Air Quality and Safe Mobility for the People of Dhaka City” made the revelation, said a press release of Washington-based global lender on Tuesday. Bangladesh has been implementing the Clean Air and Sustainable Environment […]

Ban on dental amalgam for women, children on the anvil

Legislation on banning dental amalgam on children and pregnant women by the year 2020 is on the anvil. Bangladesh along with 140 countries has signed last January a legal binding treaty to eliminate anthropogenic emissions of mercury. The production, import and export of a range of other devices containing mercury, including mercury thermometers, will be […]

Bangladesh Government mulls banning lead-dominant paints

Bangladesh in concurrence of a global resolution is contemplating to ban paints containing lead by the end of this year. The Ministry of Environment (MoE) is now studying the global agenda towards banning continued production, import and export, sale and use of enamel decorative paints containing lead. The household enamel paints are widely blamed for […]

Bangladesh: 30% of Biodiversity will be lost by 2050

Within 2050 30% of biodiversity will be extinct. According to IUCN almost 10% of flora is already extinct form Bangladesh, some still remain in other part of the world but native species are wiped out. 17 species of vertebrates were lost and among mammals 799 species are extinct & 61 species were extinct in the […]

শিশুদের খেলনায় বিষাক্ত কেমিক্যাল

বাংলাদেশের বাজারে শিশুদের বিভিন্ন ধরনের খেলনায়  উচ্চমাত্রার ক্ষতিকর রাসায়নিক কেমিক্যাল রয়েছে। এই বিষাক্ত রাসায়নিক অত্যাবশ্যক অঙ্গ প্রভাবিত, ক্যান্সার, কিডনি সংক্রমণ, ফুসফুসের ক্ষতি, হার্টের রোগ, শিশুদের মস্তিষ্কের বিকাশ ও স্বাভাবিক বৃদ্ধিতে বাধাসহ নানা রোগ সৃষ্টি করতে পারে। সম্প্রতি বেসরকারি সংস্থা এনভায়রনমেন্ট এ্যান্ড সোস্যাল ডেভেলপমেন্ট অর্গানাইজেশনের (এসডো) এক গবেষণায় এমন তথ্য প্রকাশ করেছে। গবেষণা প্রতিবেদনটিতে বলা হয়, […]

Launching of Zero Waste Resource Center(ZWRC) in Rajshahi

ESDO has recently launched its first Zero Waste Resource Center in Godagari, Rajshahi. On Saturday 22 February 2014, ESDO staff and Lahanti Foundation Staff showed World Vision, Bangladesh (WVB) staff to Mohalan, our pilot Zero Waste Village and to witness the launch of the Zero Waste Resource Center (ZWRC). Mr. Graner Marak, Divisional Director of WVB and Mr. […]

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