BAPA and BEN’s Nationwide Campaign Urging Political Parties to Prioritize Environment in Upcoming Elections

Ahead of the upcoming national elections, the Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (BAPA) and the Bangladesh Environment Network (BEN) have initiated a massive nationwide campaign to ensure environmental protection becomes a core political agenda. Delegations from various regional branches are actively meeting with parliamentary candidates across the country, handing over a memorandum of recommendations and strongly urging … Read more…

The Treaty That Climate Change Broke: Bangladesh’s Path to Water Survival

Climate change has delivered the Ganges basin its worst droughts in 1,300 years, droughts well outside the range of natural climate variability, while atmospheric rivers now drive catastrophic floods that overwhelm all infrastructure. Research shows climate change has quadrupled extreme monsoon events, with atmospheric rivers contributing 73% of floods in the Ganga basin. The August … Read more…

The Future of Bengal Delta

The making of a delta During the peak of the monsoon season, it takes the high Himalayan water only days to reach the Bay of Bengal; however, it is a different story for the sediment coming from those high places. It is the material from which the Bengal Delta has been built; some of the … Read more…

Transboundary Rivers Treaty: Crucial for Our Future

A pre-liberation time slogan, “Tomar amar thikana – Padma-Meghna-Jamuna (the Padma-Meghna-Jamuna is our address),” depicts the inherent connection of rivers to the very existence of Bangladesh as a country. The geographic territory of Bangladesh is created by river-borne sediments over a long period of geologic time. All major rivers that flow into Bangladesh originate outside … Read more…

Evaluating the WASH Deficit Through Bangladesh’s Urban Reality

With less than five years remaining until the 2030 deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the global community faces a critical juncture in achieving universal access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) under SDG 6. The World Health Organization and UNICEF, through the 2025 UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water … Read more…

BEN Bi-Monthly Webinar on Waste Management in Bangladesh

The Bangladesh Environment Network (BEN) is set to convene its 18th bi-monthly webinar on Saturday, February 14, 2026, addressing the urgent theme of “Waste Management in Bangladesh: Technical-Policy Challenges, and Way Forward”. Scheduled to run from 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM Dhaka time (11:00 AM to 1:00 PM Toronto/New York time), the event aims to … Read more…

UN Declares Era of “Global Water Bankruptcy”, is Bangladesh Facing Risks?

The United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) declared on January 20, 2026, that the world has entered an era of “Global Water Bankruptcy”. This signifies a shift beyond recoverable water stress into a permanent post-crisis state marked by irreversible losses of water-related natural capital. For Bangladesh, this is particularly urgent, as … Read more…

BAPA Suggests Politicians of Complicity in Environmental Destruction

BAPA and BEN held a joint press conference at Dhaka Reporters Unity on January 24, 2026, titled “Call to Political Parties to Protect Bangladesh’s Environment on the Eve of the Upcoming Election.” They directly indicted political involvement in environmental destruction and demanded all parties incorporate concrete environmental commitments into their election manifestos. The conference asserted … Read more…