100% Renewable Energy in Bangladesh by 2050 is technically feasible, economically viable and socially beneficial. The study suggests that renewable energy can tackle both the challenges of economic expansion and reliable energy access, if the energy strategy of Bangladesh takes an integrated approach across heat, mobility and electricity. The study also highlights that Bangladesh has the technical possibilities to implement new innovative technologies such as floating RE installations and to reduce its future dependence on energy imports significantly. The study also recommends to use the existing Solar Home System (SHS) to develop bottom-up electrification model.

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Cultivating Responsibility within the Climate Uncertainty - is a study on the impact of cyclone on the small scale shrimp farming in the Climate Change vulnerable south west Coastal Region of Bangladesh. This report “Cultivating Responsibility within the Climate Uncertainty” is the compilation of the key learning’s, baseline survey & monitoring data generated through the Safeguarding Coastal Ecosystem from Irresponsible Commercial Shrimp farming (SECO) project with assistance.

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The adoption of United Nations General Assembly Resolution “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, the adoption of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on “Financing for Development”; the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Adoption of the Paris Agreement by the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are indicating that Global Development Paradigm has started a transformational journey involving all the countries of the world including Bangladesh towards Sustainable Climate Resilient Low-Carbon Pathway. The Paris Agreement urges all nations to undertake progressively ambitious efforts towards a low carbon future through “Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)”. The Article 2 of the Paris Agreement calls for a paradigm shift of the economic development away from its dependency on fossil fuels and energy intensive systems both at global and national level. A Sustainable Climate Resilient Low-Carbon Development Pathway is anticipated to guide the policy regime for the gradual transformation of the existing carbon dependent social-economic development paradigm 'til 2030.

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Bangladesh is known as the country of disaster. But the people of this disaster prone country have learned from their experience that "Solidarity is the most effective tool to combat disaster". Climate Justice and Solidarity based adaptation.

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Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in its twenty-first session adopted the Paris Climate Agreement. The decisions (Decision 1/CP.21) have recognized climate change as an urgent and potentially irreversible threat to human societies and the planet and thus requires the widest possible cooperation by all countries. This recognition expects effective and appropriate global climate governance by the participation of all countries to accelerate the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions to hold the rising global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels. The term “Low-emissions Development Strategies” was first introduced in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations in 2008. In 2009, the Copenhagen Accord have recognized that “low-emission development strategies are indispensable to sustainable development”. In 2010, the Cancun Agreements also proposed that low-carbon development strategies (LCDS) is requisite to sustainable development and LCDS should be mandatory for developed countries and encouraged for developing countries. The Cancun Agreements encouraged “developing countries to develop low carbon development strategies or plans in the context of sustainable development” as part of their national mitigation action. The Paris Agreement brings all nations into a shared vision to undertake progressively ambitious efforts to transform the world towards a sustainable low carbon future. The Paris Agreement requires all Parties to put forward their best efforts through “nationally determined contributions” (NDCs).



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In economic context, industrialization for the economic development is the root cause of climate change. Every country wants to improve the living standards of its population through increasing speeding up industrialization. In social context, ignorance or insignificant knowledge of the people is the root cause of climate change.

If the relationship between human activity and climate had been widely understood many decades ago, we simply would not be facing the same magnitude of challenge that we face today.

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Human society progresses through its policies and decisions. Shaping public policy is a complex and multifaceted process that involves the interplay of numerous individuals and interest groups. People have significant knowledge and experience that can add meaningful contribution to the public policy process. The objective of the Rapid & Participatory Policy Analysis (RAPA) Toolkit is not generating intellectual debate, rather to assist activists or interested people to quickly understand about the formation & impact of public policy decisions and identify stages of policy development structure, mechanisms & processes. Policy is a living document, so you can start analysis anytime to transform a good policy into better policy. It is better to make a bad start than to make no start.

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The security of individuals, communities, nations, and the entire global community is decreasing due to climate change. The human insecurity owing to climate change is perhaps the most wide spread non-military environmental threat the global community has ever faced. Climate change is a security concern because it has the potential to destabilize global socio-economic system, displace populations, and lead to the collapse of global development. Despite the omnipresent nature, climate security issues are still not high on the national security & policy agenda. Increased cyclone, storm surges, floods, riverbank erosion destroys and damage peoples properties including land, house, crop, cattle.

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The global trend of shrimp business envisages that without informing consumers about sustainable farming practices, it will be gradually difficult to sell the shrimp products. Considering the social, environmental and local issues integrated commercial shrimp farming, the present study would like to rename CSR as CLOSER (Corporate Local, Social & Environmental Responsibility) for protecting ecosystem & community at local production level as well as to promote Environment-Friendly ExportOriented Shrimp Cultivation. Shrimp farm associations with support from government and NGOs can provide technical assistance.

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