Europe Just Quietly Exempted Leather From Its Deforestation Law — Here’s What Bangladesh’s Tanneries Need to Know
After sustained industry lobbying, the EU has dropped cattle leather from the scope of its flagship anti-deforestation regulation. For Bangladesh’s leather and footwear exporters, that’s one compliance headache removed — but the underlying law, delayed twice, is still coming for everything else.
28 Countries and Counting: The Global Disclosure Standard Bangladesh Just Started Adopting
Quietly, without much local fanfare, Bangladesh opened a formal consultation on adopting the world’s fastest-spreading sustainability reporting standard. Twenty-eight jurisdictions have already gone ahead. The question now is how fast Bangladesh follows and who’s ready when it does.
The Hidden Tax Nobody’s Budgeted For: What Europe’s Carbon Border Rule Could Cost Bangladesh’s Garment Industry
Bangladesh’s apparel exporters are already staring down the loss of duty-free EU access after LDC graduation. Layer the EU’s carbon border tax on top, and the math gets brutal — a potential near-17% total tariff hit on the industry that carries the entire economy.
Bangladesh Bets $10.8 Billion on Its Power Grid But Coal and Nuclear Are Still in the Mix
A three-year, Tk128,013 crore energy overhaul promises a smarter grid, more renewables, and less blackout anxiety. But the plan also leans on a coal plant, a nuclear reactor and gas, a reminder that Bangladesh’s transition is less a straight line than a balancing act.
Bangladesh’s Green Money Problem: Everyone Wants It, Almost No One Knows How to Get It
At Dhaka’s biggest sustainability gathering of the year, the country’s top securities regulator delivered a blunt verdict: Bangladesh has climate ambitions but not yet the financial plumbing to fund them. Green bonds, blue bonds and ESG-linked capital are flowing worldwide — Bangladesh is still figuring out how to plug in.