Bangladesh is trying to do two things at once on the world climate stage. It wants to ask for finance, and it wants to offer credits.

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman held a meeting that directed the preparation of a plan to cut emissions and strengthen Bangladesh’s carbon-credit potential. She asked for a strategy to use the international market, transparency in carbon credit management, a reliable database and closer coordination with international organisations.

Milestones on Bangladesh’s carbon market and climate finance path

A practical sign has followed. ATEC says it received a Letter of Authorization from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change allowing emission reductions from its Electric Cooking Program, which provides induction stoves in the Chattogram division, to be transferred internationally under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement. The company expects 1.29 million tonnes of CO2-equivalent reductions by 2030 under Gold Standard’s metered and measured methodology, with the first credit issuance expected in December 2026. It describes itself as the first clean cooking developer in Bangladesh to win such approval.

The framework behind it was previewed at COP30 in November 2025, when Bangladesh held a pre-launch session on how emission reductions would be generated, authorised and traded under Article 6 and the voluntary carbon market.

Clear regulations, transparent monitoring and institutional capacity- carbon credits, it argued, must complement real climate action in renewable energy, efficiency, forests and wetlands.

COP31 is set for Antalya in November. Dhaka has said it will bring a special agenda seeking stronger climate finance. The prime minister’s stated priorities include moving the Loss and Damage Fund from promise to delivery and making climate finance more accessible and concessional. Civil society groups are preparing a position paper urging loss and damage to take centre stage.

Both sides of Bangladesh’s pitch rest on the same foundation. A tonne of carbon is only worth something if somebody can measure it, verify it and defend the number. The same is true for a request for climate finance: donors will want to see what the money changed. That means people who can do greenhouse gas accounting, verification and credible reporting.