BEN Desk

According to the news published in various newspapers, Bangladesh will start buying electricity commercially from the first week of March this year from the 1,600 MW coal-based power plant of the Adani Group built at Godda in Jharkhand, India. This power is being purchased in unfavorable conditions for Bangladesh. The financial benefits that are being … Read more…

Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (BAPA) and Bangladesh Environment Network (BEN) jointly organized the country’s first environmental rally (পরিবেশ সমাবেশ) to protest the overall degradation of the environment of Bangladesh. The rally was held at Central Shaheed Minar on Friday, January 13, 2023 (from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM). The main objective of organizing this rally was … Read more…

Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (BAPA) and Bangladesh Environment Network (BEN) will hold a special conference on “Haors, Rivers and Beels of Bangladesh.” The daylong conference will be held in Dhaka at the Science Annex Building of Dhaka University on February 14, 2023.  Papers by authors residing outside Bangladesh are requested to send the abstract and full … Read more…

Bangladesh Environment Network has started a bi-monthly webinar series in June 2022. The two-hour webinars are held on the last Saturday of the month, every other month, at a time convenient for as many time zones of the world as possible, currently 10 AM US Eastern/NY Time. BEN experts from all over the world contribute … Read more…

BEN holds regular monthly meetings on the last Saturday of the month at a time that is convenient to most time zones around the globe, currently at 10 AM US Eastern Time. IG and CC convene in separate meetings in alternate months. The last such meeting was held on December 31, Saturday, 2022. BEN Global … Read more…

The second half of 2022 has seen a range of organizational activities attempting to. start or restore BEN chapters around the world. Md. Khalequzzaman, new GC of BEN, coordinated these efforts with active participation and guidance of other BEN organizers and leaders. BEN founder Nazrul Islam helped organize several events in New York by the … Read more…

The preparations for the BAPA-BEN 2022 annual conference are in full swing. Titled “Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development” the conference will be attended by experts and activists from Bangladesh and overseas. The conference organizing committee (COC) chaired by Sultana Kamal had a couple of meetings to discuss the details of the arrangements. Conducted by … Read more…

Conference organizing committee (COC) of the Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon-Bangladesh Environment Network (BAPA-BEN) 2022 annual conference held a press conference at the Sagar-Runi Auditorium of Dhaka Reporters’ Unity at Dhaka on Friday December 17, 2021. Sultana Kamal, the President of BAPA and the Chairperson of the COC, announced the theme and the date for the upcoming … Read more…

Experts and activists of Bangladesh Environment Network (BEN) continue to work towards the 2022 BAPA-BEN annual conference. Dr. Ahmed Badruzzaman, a faculty at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, is leading the BEN efforts. as the Co-Chair of the technical committee of the conference. BEN leaders from around the world, … Read more…