Public data on emissions, the 2035 targets and the market being built now. Every number links to its source.
The challenge
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Bangladesh in numbers
Every figure links to its source. We update them as new data is published. Checked against sources on 30 October 2026.
Average PM2.5 in Bangladesh in 2025, 13.2 times the WHO guideline
IQAir World Air Quality ReportBrick kilns in Bangladesh, 58.8% of them without a licence (figure given in Parliament, June 2022); in 2024 the ministry ordered 3,491 kilns without clearance to close
Parliament statement via The Daily Star; MoEFCC, Sep 2024Of Sundarbans mangrove forest in Bangladesh; its core is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997
Protected Planet (UNEP-WCMC)Rooftop solar in Bangladesh by June 2026, according to government data cited by IEEFA; SREDA lists 1,694.94 MW of renewable capacity in total
IEEFA (Aug 2026); SREDALive, updated hourly
Air quality, CO₂, methane and temperature in 66 major cities. Bangladesh is marked with its current position.
Gas averages: NOAA, updated monthly, checked daily. Warming: Copernicus, monthly.
Live map
Air pollution hotspots, protected forest, the largest solar parks and the projects we propose, on one map. Proposed projects are suggestions, not yet implemented.
PM2.5 from sources inside the Greater Dhaka Area, 2020. These local sources cause 56% of the pollution people breathe there; the rest drifts in from the rest of Bangladesh (16%), other countries (21%) and natural dust (7%).
Fossil CO₂ only, million tonnes. Click the coloured dots to see what happened.
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Share of 252.04 MtCO₂e, 2022
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Total greenhouse gases, MtCO₂e. Submitted to the UNFCCC on 29 Sep 2025.
Gap to close: 26.74 Mt unconditionally, 58.23 Mt with finance. Source: The Financial Express
CO₂ brick kilns could emit in 2030 under business-as-usual.
IEEFA
Inefficient biomass cookstoves counted in 2019–20.
IEEFA
Renewable electricity today versus the 2030 goal.
Ember (2023)
Registered under the old CDM, yielding 1.26M credits (0.05% of the world total). Weak MRV capacity was a key reason.
IEEFA
A Designated National Authority now approves carbon projects. The draft Carbon Market Framework and Positive List were open for consultation until February 2026, and work on a national carbon registry and market guidelines is under way.
Draft Bangladesh Carbon Market Framework, under consultation (Feb 2026). Read the draft
Estimated reductions per year if the proposed projects go ahead (not yet implemented)
Bar drawn at 8× scale so it is visible.
Paris Agreement · Article 6
The Paris Agreement (2015) asks every country to set a climate target, its NDC . Article 6 lets countries and companies pay for emission cuts in another country and count them, as long as each tonne is counted only once. Its rules were agreed at COP26 in Glasgow in 2021.
For example solar, clean cookstoves or mangrove restoration in Bangladesh, measured through MRV.
The government issues a letter of authorisation for the verified tonnes.
Another country, an airline under CORSIA or a company buys them. A registry records each serial number.
Bangladesh adds the transferred tonnes back to its own total, so the cut is never counted by two parties.
Country-to-country deals. Transferred units are called ITMOs (internationally transferred mitigation outcomes).
A UN-supervised crediting mechanism, the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism, which replaces the Kyoto-era CDM.
Independent ratings, MRV that meets the Paris transparency framework, and a registry that tracks authorisations and corresponding adjustments, so nothing is double counted.
Our registriesRenewable energy, forests and blue carbon, waste, clean cooking, energy efficiency and green mobility, each rated on the same seven criteria.
Browse projectsThe Synsta platform Concept · not started yet
This is what we propose to build: one secure place where projects, monitoring, ratings, serial-numbered credits and retirements could be recorded. Work has not started yet. The demo shows how it would work, using sample data.
What it would include