Category: Climate Action
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Unlocking Inclusive Green Finance in Bangladesh: A Multi-Criteria Innovation Approach for Product Design
by Mohammad Syful Hoque Bangladesh faces a green finance paradox: ambitious sustainability mandates but limited product uptake. Current financial instruments—mainly green loans or refinancing schemes—fail to align with the realities of informal borrowers, SMEs, and underbanked populations. Only 1.4% of private sector credit was classified as green (2023), despite Bangladesh Bank mandates of 5–20%. This…
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Bangladesh’s ESG Transition in 2025: Why It Lags India and Vietnam — and What It Can Learn from ASEAN Peers
by Mohammad Syful Hoque I assessed Bangladesh’s ESG transition relative to India and Vietnam over 2024–2025 using three comparable lenses—mandatory disclosure rules, real-economy clean-power penetration, and sustainable-finance depth—drawing metrics from a single harmonized dataset for electricity and regulator/market sources for finance and reporting. What I find is that, Bangladesh lacks an exchange-level ESG mandate, relying…
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Urban Planning for Resilient Infrastructure
Transforming BMDF into a Generation‑II Municipal Financing Institution Insights from the Organizational & Systems Capacity Building (OSCB) Study by IP3 Consulting From Donor‑Dependent Projects to Sustainable Urban Finance The Bangladesh Municipal Development Fund’s Role in Urban Development For over two decades, the Bangladesh Municipal Development Fund (BMDF) has delivered vital urban infrastructure projects across…