The Bangladesh government has undertaken initiatives of mass reforms for going green in the existing industries in the country, including its top earning ready made garment industry, Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu said at a recent conference.
“We are pursuing green financing and green banking policy to finance low-carbon and resource-efficient small and medium enterprises and the supply value chains of our RMG industry,” Minister Amu said at the 5th Green Industry Conference for Sustainable Development in Bangkok on October 3, 2018.
“Our government has set up 100 eco-friendly special economic zones with state-sponsored green industrial standards for ETP (effluent treatment plant) and water treatment plants,” he said, according to a press release issued from Bangladesh embassy in Bangkok.
He added, Bangladesh’s “Green industry and sustainable development philosophy” is inspired by the “Golden Bengal” vision of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Vision 2021 of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The minister also spoke at the ministerial panel discussion on “Regional perspectives on green industry policy”. Ministers from 15 Asian countries and the Pacific, including Myanmar, Lao PDR, Cambodia, Albania, Armenia, Mongolia and Thailand, took part in the event.
Later in the afternoon, Amu held a bilateral meeting with Li Yong, director general of the UNIDO, at the UNESCAP secretariat. The minister thanked the UNIDO for its sustained partnership with Bangladesh for the last two decades.
Saida Muna Tasneem, Bangladesh ambassador to Thailand and permanent representative to the UNESCAP, and AM Mansurul Alam, additional secretary of the ministry of environment, were also present at the do.