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In Bangladesh's proposed national budget for fiscal year 2026-27, only 2 percent of the allocation for the power generation sector has been earmarked for renewable or green energy, while the remaining 98 percent continues to be dominated by traditional fossil fuels. Although the government has sig...

Bangladesh is becoming increasingly dependent on Japan’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) trade, exposing the country to long-term risks associated with the volatile global energy market, according to international research organisation Zero Carbon Analytics (ZCA). In its latest report, ZCA said Japa...

Although the proposed budget for the 2026-27 fiscal year has been assessed as positive overall, the private research organisation Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) has said there is no clear guidance on implementation strategies. At the same time, the organisation believes that the targets for revenu...

"If the education movement cannot be transformed into a socio-political movement, it will be difficult to achieve the changes we desire," said Dr. Debapriya Bhattacharya, Convenor of the Citizen's Platform for SDG Implementation and a Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD).He s...