Sustainability & Urban Planning Archives

The Sun as Policy: Assessing Bangladesh’s Solar Incentive Push

September 10, 2026September 10, 2026 editor No Comments

Bangladesh’s leadership has positioned solar power as a key component of the nation’s energy strategy, promoting incentives for both rooftop and utility scale photovoltaic installations as part of a broader effort to strengthen energy security. This ambition is well supported by geographic and economic factors, but turning that potential into lasting, equitable benefit will take…

Sustainability & Urban Planning

The Himalayas Flood and Threats for Bangladesh

September 3, 2026September 3, 2026 editor No Comments

The Bhotekoshi catastrophe of August 26, which claimed over 1000 lives and left more than 4,000 missing in Nepal’s Himalayan corridors, is not merely a national tragedy for one upstream country. For Bangladesh, it is a geographical alarm bell of the highest order. The same rivers that carried that fury of ice, rock, and debris…

Sustainability & Urban Planning

How far from or close to is Bangladesh from Nepal in terms of environmental disaster?

August 29, 2026August 29, 2026 editor No Comments

On the morning of August 26, 2026, a ten-meter wall of water swept through Timure and Syabrubesi in Nepal’s Rasuwa district without warning. The Bhotekoshi river, swollen by a high-altitude glacial lake outburst upstream, tore apart trade infrastructure, destroyed bridges, flattened police posts, and consumed hydropower facilities that had taken years to build. Writing in…

Sustainability & Urban Planning

Power Generation in Bangladesh and Sustainability

August 20, 2026August 20, 2026 editor No Comments

The Oniket Bulletin analysis recently published on power generation in Bangladesh provides a valuable diagnostic of the structural, financial, and institutional weaknesses that have caused actual output to trail behind planned targets. It correctly identifies overdependence on imported fossil fuels, the perverse consequences of capacity payment contracts, and the bankability crisis in renewable energy tenders. …

Sustainability & Urban Planning

Environmental Degradation in the Hills and the Crisis of Regional Harmony

August 13, 2026August 13, 2026 editor No Comments

The dumping of municipal and medical waste across mountain streams and agricultural land in Lemuzhiri, Bandarban, is more than an environmental disaster. It is deeply connected to local governance, citizens’ rights, public health, livelihoods, and social harmony in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. The lives and livelihoods, culture, and religious practices of indigenous hill communities are…

Sustainability & Urban Planning

The Political Economy of Clean Air in India and Bangladesh

August 6, 2026August 6, 2026 editor No Comments

Clean air is the prime example of a shared public good. Yet, in two of South Asia’s most polluted cities, it is being treated as a waste dump for negative externalities. Dhaka and New Delhi are both capital cities defined by the deteriorating quality of their most life-sustaining asset: air. While the World Health Organization…

Sustainability & Urban Planning

The QatarEnergy Disruption and Bangladesh’s Energy Reckoning

August 6, 2026August 6, 2026 editor No Comments

Assessing Structural Exposure and the Path to Energy Resilience This article assesses the economic effects of QatarEnergy’s LNG disruption and identifies priorities for strengthening Bangladesh’s energy resilience. The crisis exposes excessive dependence on imported LNG and the cost of underutilised generation without secure fuel. Immediate priorities are transparent procurement and disciplined gas allocation. Medium-term resilience…

Sustainability & Urban Planning

Collaborative a blue economy building between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh for sustainability.

July 30, 2026July 30, 2026 editor No Comments

In south Asian region, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are countries that location in same linearity. Both countries face the Indian Ocean in an easterly direction, and the Bay of Bengal borders both countries. Economic and political Relationship between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh Since establishing diplomatic relations in 1972, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka’s partnership was largely…

Sustainability & Urban Planning

Prospect of Blue Cities in Bangladesh

July 23, 2026July 23, 2026 editor 1 Comment

Bangladesh is a nation defined by water. More than seven hundred rivers thread across its territory, the Bay of Bengal borders its south, and the world’s largest river delta shapes its very geography. Yet for decades, the cities built atop this vast water network have treated water as a threat to be managed away rather…

Sustainability & Urban Planning

The endangered capital: Flood and Dhaka

July 16, 2026July 16, 2026 editor No Comments

Dhaka floods after thirty to forty millimetres of rain. A capital of over twenty million people, built on the world’s largest delta, submerges under the modest downpour that any functioning monsoon city should absorb without incident. This is not an act of nature. It is the accumulated consequence of a century and a half of…

Sustainability & Urban Planning