Sustainable finance is the process of incorporating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations into financial investment decisions, resulting in longer-term investments in sustainable economic activities and projects.

The Daily Star (TDS): Your bank has been recognized as one of the Top Banks and Financial Institutions in the ‘Sustainability Rating 2022’ by the Bangladesh Bank. What are the most innovative and impactful sustainable financing products or strategies you have adopted to achieve this recognition?

The Daily Star (TDS): Your bank has been recognized as one of the Top Banks and Financial Institutions in ‘Sustainability Rating 2022’ by the Bangladesh Bank. What are the most innovative and impactful sustainable financing products or strategies you have adopted to achieve this recognition?

The Daily Star (TDS): Your institution has been recognized as one of the Top Banks and Financial Institutions in the ‘Sustainability Rating 2022’ by the Bangladesh Bank. What were the most innovative and impactful sustainable financing products or strategies you adopted to achieve this recognition?

The Daily Star (TDS): Your bank has been recognized as one of the Top Banks and Financial Institutions in the 'Sustainability Rating 2022' by the Bangladesh Bank.

The Daily Star (TDS): Your bank has been recognized as one of the Top Banks and Financial Institutions in the ‘Sustainability Rating 2022’ by the Bangladesh Bank.

Many entrepreneurs are interested in making their projects greener, thanks to higher sustainable financing from both banks and non-bank financial institutions year after year.

Apparel shipment worth $26.78 billion from Bangladesh may be affected due to extreme weather conditions like heat and floods by 2030, according to a study of Cornell University in the US.

Exporting manpower to France can be an area of discussion during Macron's visit.

Cataclysmic wildfires, the intensity and frequency of which have increased due to human-caused climate change, are not just an American phenomenon.

Women are more adversely impacted by natural disasters than men due to gender-based roles and responsibilities.

As far as climate change is concerned, the Asia Pacific is highly significant.

A thorough and strategic approach is required to defend against the recurrent floods and climatic disasters Bangladesh faces.

Protests by climate activists are anything but terrorism.

The answer is the soil on which we live, the primary producer of our food and water.

Leaders who attend COP28 will have to rise to the occasion with the sense of urgency that the climate change crisis requires today.

People who grow crops and those who garden are often the first ones to sense any climate changes. These people also watch these changes first-hand because they spend a considerable amount of their time in and with nature.

Carbon capture and storage involves capturing CO2 emissions from industrial processes or power plants and storing them underground.

Response and rehabilitation strategies need to be more effective 

But more needs to be done achieve real sustainability