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Bangladesh approves Clean Energy Act, 2012


The Cabinet on June 18 approved the draft of Sustainable and Renewable Energy Development Authority Act, 2012 aiming to increase the production and use of green energy in the country.

The approval was given at the regular weekly meeting of the cabinet held at Bangladesh Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.
Briefing reporters after the meeting, Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said the government has initiated the renewable energy law framing to bring use of the renewable energy under a legal framework as use of the renewable energy including biogas and solar energy have been increased in the country in recent years.

In the backdrop of adverse impacts of global climate change, the use of renewable energy has been increased across the globe, he said.
The Sustainable and Renewable Energy Development Authority will be replaced the existing Energy Cell and the bill will be placed as a ‘Finance Bill’ in parliament after approval of the President.
Headed by a chairman, the Sustainable and Renewable Energy Development Authority will be consist of five full members and a number of part-time members, including of private sector.
Today’s cabinet also endorsed a proposal for signing a bilateral agreement on air-traffic between Bangladesh and Myanmar, updating the existing law of 1977.
Under the agreement, five private and public sector airlines would operate seven passenger and four cargo flights every week between the cities of the two countries.
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