A three-day fair with a focus on green trade, environment and eco-tourism began at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka yesterday.
Dr Ainun Nishat, environmentalist and vice-chancellor of Brac University, inaugurated the fair as a special guest.
Despite being a low carbon-emitting nation, Bangladesh unfortunately suffers more from its baleful consequences, than the developed countries with high carbon emissions, Nishat said.
He also said Bangladesh may follow the examples set by the Maldives and some other developing nations and earn money by enabling the developed countries to implement emission-reduction projects through adopting clean development mechanism.
The clean development mechanism (CDM), defined in the Kyoto Protocol, allows a country with an emission-reduction or emission-limitation commitment to implement emission-reduction projects in developing countries. Such projects can earn saleable certified emission reduction credits, each equivalent to one tonne of CO2, which can be counted toward meeting Kyoto targets.
Dr MA Hakim, chairman of Save the Earth International, chaired the programme. Niaz Rahim, group director of Rahimafrooz, and Dr Khurshid-Ul-Islam, senior advisor of GTZ, were also present at the fair.
In his speech, Niaz Rahim said his company has been working in the renewable energy development sector and it already signed a number of contracts with the local companies to provide support with its renewable energy solutions.
The show is open to visitors from 9am to 8pm.
