Key Fact behind unsustainable waste management in Singapore
Enhanced government and corporate accountability, with a commitment of the full execution of the EPR law, and more investment into upcycling innovations are yet to make a more sustainable waste management ecosystem in Singapore.
Singapore is well-known for its efficiency, cleanliness and uncountable innovations made in sustainable building design, energy and water efficiency.
Yet contempt aiming to become a ‘Zero Waste Nation’ and devoting heavily in waste management, the island state fares quite weakly when it comes to accountable resource recovery.
According to the National Environment Agency (NEA), incineration reduces waste by up to 90%, saving landfill space, and the heat recovered produces steam used to generate electricity.
In the words of the recently appointed Minister for Sustainability and the Environment, Grace Fu, Singapore is not “in a hurry” to ban plastic bags because it burns waste to produce energy.
Waste-to-energy initiatives are, however, not sustainable in the long run
People are not bound to conserve energy when they are misinformed to believe that their electricity comes from ‘green sources’. Moreover, waste-to-energy only accounts for 3% of Singapore’s total electricity needs.
They provide no encouragements to reduce waste volumes or inspire responsible recycling.
However, Singapore has low recycling rates and generates massive waste volumes for such a small city-state.
Resources are lost and misused, making needless demand for virgin materials.
They could ease innovation in waste management, including upcycling waste into other, higher-value products besides electricity, or delay the transition to more renewable energy sources.
Incineration naturally leads to growing carbon emissions, and air pollution could potentially pose a health hazard. Although, experts from the NEA claims that Singapore’s waste-to-energy technology is ecologically and health-friendly.
Since most trash is incinerated, plastic alternatives often advertised as biodegradable may not be more eco-friendly in Singapore’s context.
They would either need a specialised industry facility to be processed or would need to be left in the landfill to degrade.
China to start its carbon emissions trading scheme next month
China’s deferred carbon trading system will start operating in February, the environment ministry has said, as the world’s main polluter takes standings towards decarbonising its economy by 2060.
The ministry issued rules on Tuesday permitting regional governments to set pollution caps for big power industries for the very first time.
Firms can purchase the right to pollute from others who have a lower carbon footprint, but the plan is likely to drive down total emissions by turning it more costly to do so.
“This is one of the most exciting developments for the world’s largest carbon market in the recent rollercoaster year,” said Zhang Jianyu, vice president of the Environmental Defence Fund China, which has referred with the government on emissions trading.
However, 60% of power in China is still based on coal despite striving renewable energy targets, and experts advise the powerful coal lobby will be demanding hard for constructive carbon caps.
Under the new guidelines, more than 2,200 firms that release over 26,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases per year can start exchanging their emission quotas from Feb 1.
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China’s countrywide system is likely to conceal that of the European Union to become the world’s largest emissions trading scheme (ETS).
Beijing has promised to peak emissions before 2030 and become carbon neutral 30 years later. But it turned back preliminary plans to limit emissions from seven other industries including aviation, steel and petrochemical manufacturing.
“When Europe started its exchange scheme in 2005, there were matters in the first phase where members were kind of conceding into lobbying pressure,” said Li Shuo from Greenpeace China.
China’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 were projected at 13.92 billion tonnes – about 29% of the world’s total associated with global warming.
Once fully effective, the ETS will cover about a third of China’s national emissions, according to the International Carbon Action Partnership.
However, it is uncertain whether China will comprise businesses outside the power sector in the system.
Source: AFP/NH
If global warming is happening, our question is how can the Earth’s atmosphere be getting colder?
In some ways, this query repeats another by climate change skeptics: If global warming is happening, why is it colder in some places than earlier years? For one thing, weather and seasons are still occurring.
Equally, colder weather in some areas is contradicted with hotter temperatures in other places, and research suggests that global warming might be discharging surrounded cold air.
Similarly, even as the lower atmosphere is warming, a new study revealed that the Earth’s upper atmosphere is cooling because of rising carbon dioxide levels and variations in the magnetic field.
“The rise in CO2 concentration is the foremost cause of cooling in the upper atmosphere, while effects of magnetic field changes also play a significant role near the poles, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere,” remarked Ingrid Cnossen, a fellow at the British Antarctic Survey and author of the study.
While the troposphere, the layer contiguous to the Earth, cools as you go upper, the next level — the stratosphere — truly warms as you get nearer to the sun.
Even upper layers, including the mesosphere and thermosphere, are mostly cold, but the research found that temperatures have been falling even further in all three layers.
It is not clear whether global warming, which impacts the troposphere, is behind the cooling of upper layers, Cnossen said, but these effects of climate change could have stern results on everything from melting glaciers to humans’ ability to fly.
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Is climate change cooling the Earth's upper atmosphere?
Surprisingly, climate change might be cooling the Earth’s upper atmosphere. But yes, global warming is still happening.
Story at a glance
Global warming is escalating average temperatures across the world and triggering extreme weather events.
Similarly, a new study revealed that temperatures of the Earth’s upper atmosphere are cooling.
These deviations might have a consequence on both climate and aeroplane technology.
If global warming is happening, our question is how can the Earth’s atmosphere be getting colder?
In some ways, this query repeats another by climate change skeptics: If global warming is happening, why is it colder in some places than earlier years? For one thing, weather and seasons are still occurring.
Equally, colder weather in some areas is contradicted with hotter temperatures in other places, and research suggests that global warming might be discharging surrounded cold air.
Similarly, even as the lower atmosphere is warming, a new study revealed that the Earth’s upper atmosphere is cooling because of rising carbon dioxide levels and variations in the magnetic field.
“The rise in CO2 concentration is the foremost cause of cooling in the upper atmosphere, while effects of magnetic field changes also play a significant role near the poles, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere,” remarked Ingrid Cnossen, a fellow at the British Antarctic Survey and author of the study.
While the troposphere, the layer contiguous to the Earth, cools as you go upper, the next level — the stratosphere — truly warms as you get nearer to the sun.
Even upper layers, including the mesosphere and thermosphere, are mostly cold, but the research found that temperatures have been falling even further in all three layers.
It is not clear whether global warming, which impacts the troposphere, is behind the cooling of upper layers, Cnossen said, but these effects of climate change could have stern results on everything from melting glaciers to humans’ ability to fly.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker. With three years of working experience, he has developed courses with the support of other Climate Tracker staff.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
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Soil bacteria can live on air – and also assist to control climate change.
Soil plays a significant role in regulating climate change than earlier thought according to a new study co-authored by an academic from Queen Mary University of London.
This study found that over 70% of soil bacteria can living off the small amounts of hydrogen, carbon monoxide and methane in the air, assisting to control atmospheric pollution.
Gas meeting energy needs
The findings, issued in Nature Microbiology, disclose that as many as 19 different bacterial groups (or phyla) can live on small gas amounts, allowing that oxidation of most of these trace gases is a generalist process, rather than an expert one as earlier recommended.
Dr James Bradley, Lecturer in Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London and co-author of the study said: “We usually think of organic carbon being the main source of energy to soil microbes. Our findings shows that in fact, these soil microbes use trace gases such as hydrogen to get their energy needs.
“The response of hydrogen and oxygen emits a lot of energy – enough that it is frequently used in aerospace engineering to launch rockets into orbit. Now we know that these substitute reactions are widespread among soil microbes, and supply at least sufficient energy to meet their basic energy needs.”
“The remark that trace gases may tolerate most soil bacteria has extensive implications for understanding how bacteria outline the composition of the air we breathe, and for understanding microbial biodiversity and resilience in a changing world,” Dr Chiri said.
With bacteria accepting this flexible diet it gives researchers a new knowledge of how extensive and fruitful soils can be and how microorganisms familiarise to live in different environments. Bacteria with the metabolic flexibility to use both organic and mineral energy sources are likely to have a specific advantage in soil environments.
In normal environments, most microorganisms are not rising and instead exist in several dormant states, kind of “hibernating” during tough times.
How they do so is not clear, and yet, research on microbial metabolism often emphases on comparatively few bacteria easy to grow in laboratory conditions, while supervising the dormant majority.
“Our study is rewriting our existing knowledge of how the dormant majority survives in soils, showing that its existence depends on an earlier unknown metabolic flexibility”, Dr Bay said.
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In a newspaper issued in the peer-reviewed journal Environment, scientist Robert Walker has prophesied that the unrelieved deforestation will demolish the Amazon rainforests by 2064 and the green protection will be wiped away from its existence.
The fellow at the University of Florida in his findings has said that in the years to come, it will turn into a grassland. The land will have inflammable grasses and plants, informed the Daily Mail.
According to the newspaper, the rise of drought-based tree mortality is the main concern. It will twig from the synergies of fire and deforestation.
The deviations in the regional hydroclimate are said to impact the Amazon rainforest. The droughts are destroying off the vulnerable tree species of the rainforest.
According to the newspaper, the disaster will be worse than our imagination because of the necessity of the local community on the Amazon rainforest for water.
Not only for the local community, but the effect is also going to be on the world as well. The main tropical forest which is covered around 2.3 million square miles in area controls the oxygen and carbon cycle of the ecosphere and cuts air pollution. It is the reason for calling the lungs of the Earth.
It is thought that the year 2064 will be a tipping point as the droughts will be so regular that the rainforest will not be able to improve from them. Now, they occur every four years.
The facts behind deforestation of the forestry are many but the key one is the removal of the forest land-dwelling to use it for the farming of crops. According to Professor Robert, the collapse of environmental governance in Amazonian countries, most significantly Brazil, are counting to the concerns people have about the future of the rainforest.
He added that deforestation grasped a low point in 2012 when actions were taken to curb it but soon started rising again.
An expert from the University of Leeds, Dr Adriane Muelbert has said that the retort of the ecosystem is lagging behind the frequency of climate change.
She said that a significant level of mortality was seen in the trees and the species that are prepared to survive drier climates also didn’t give enough compensatory growth.
Professor Robert agrees with Dr Adriane as he said that if a canopy needs more than four years to recover from the harm in one year, then a forest can’t survive. The length of the dry season has also enlarged which doesn’t give the canopies sufficient time to grow.
Robert Toovey Walker (2021) Collision Course: Development Pushes Amazonia Toward Its Tipping Point, Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 63:1, 15-25, DOI: 10.1080/00139157.2021.1842711
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Although the world has been stressed to get to clutches with the coronavirus pandemic, millions of people have also had to deal with the effects of life-threatening weather events.
Christian Aid’s list of ten storms, fires and floods all cost at least $1.5bn – with nine of the 10 estimating at least $5bn.
An unusually rainy monsoon season was related to some of the most harmful storms in Asia, where some of the major losses were. Over dated months, heavy flooding in India got more than 2,000 deaths with millions of people expatriated from their homes.
The worth of the insured losses is appraised at $10bn.
“We saw highest temperatures in the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal, spanning between 30°C-33°C,” said Dr Roxy Mathew Koll, a climate scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune.
“These high temperatures had the features of marine heatwaves that might have led to the rapid escalation of the pre-monsoon cyclones Amphan and Nisarga,” he said in a comment on the Christian Aid study.
“Amphan was one of the sturdiest cyclones ever logged in the Bay of Bengal during the pre-monsoon season.”
Africa was also on the getting end of life-threatening events, with massive locust swarms ruining crops and vegetation to the tune of $8.5bn.
The UN has linked these swarms to climate change, with remarkably heavy rains in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa in topical years causing to the locust outbreaks.
Europe also observed noteworthy impacts when Storm Ciara swept through Ireland, the UK and some other countries in February.
It caused in 14 lives being lost and damages of $2.7bn.
Christian Aid address that these figures for financial costs are likely an undervalues as they are grounded only on insured losses.
Richer countries have more treasured properties, and on the whole, suffer greater monetary forfeits from extreme events.
But financial losses don’t carry the full impact of these storms and fires.
While South Sudan’s floods weren’t among the highest in dollar terms, they have had a massive impact, killing 138 people and destroying this year’s crops.
Researchers say that the impact of climate change on extreme events is vigorous and likely to continue rising.
“Just like 2019 before it, 2020 has been full of disastrous extremes,” said Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, from the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales in Australia.
“We have observed all this with a 1°C of global average temperature rise, prioritizing the complex relationship between average conditions and extremes.”
“Ultimately, the effects of climate change will be stroked via the extremes, and not averaged changes.”
“Unfortunately, we can suppose more years to look like 2020 – and inferior – as world temperatures creep higher.”
While 2021 is likely to take a similar story of losses from life-threatening events, there is some sense of confidence that political leaders may be on the edge of captivating steps that might help the world tackle the worst excesses of rising temperatures.
“It is vital that 2021 leaders in a new era of action to turn this climate change surge,” said report author, Dr Kat Kramer, from Christian Aid.
“With President-elect Biden in the White House, social movements across the world calling for vital action, post-COVID-19 green regaining investment and a crucial UN climate summit hosted by the UK, there is a great chance for countries to put us on a route to a safe future.”
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker. With three years of working experience, he has developed courses with the support of other Climate Tracker staff.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
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Coral reefs in danger until a radical decrease in greenhouse-gas emissions
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has informed that the Caribbean, addressing other places, might lose its coral reefs by the end of the century until there is a radical decrease in greenhouse-gas emissions.
“In the aspect of indecision, coral reefs will disappear soon,” said Leticia Carvalho, head of UNEP’s Marine and Freshwater Branch.
“People must act with evidence-based perseverance, determination and innovation to change the path for this ecosystem, which is the canary in the coal mine for climate’s effect on oceans before it’s too late,” she added.
UNEP said coral reefs are “Unbelievably important and sustain an extensive variety of marine life”.
They also shield coastlines from erosions from waves and storms, sink carbon and nitrogen, and help recycle nutrients.
“Their damage would have overwhelming consequences not only for marine life but also for over a billion people globally who benefit directly or indirectly from them,” it said. “When water temperatures increase, corals eject the vibrant microscopic algae living in their tissues.”
This phenomenon is called coral bleaching – and although bleached corals are still alive, they can recover their algae, if conditions improve.
“However, the damage puts them under amplified stressed, and if the bleaching persists, the corals die,” UNEP warned.
It said the last global bleaching event started in 2014 and prolonged well into 2017.
UNEP said it spread across the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans, and was “the longest, most persistent and disparaging coral bleaching incident ever noted.”
It assumes two possible scenarios: a “worst-case scenario” of the world economy severely determined by fossil fuels, and a “middle-of-the-road” wherein Caribbean and other countries overdo their current pledges to limit carbon emissions by 50%.
Under the fossil-fuel-heavy situation, the report assumes that every one of the world’s reefs will bleach by the end of the century, with yearly severe bleaching occurring on average by 2034, nine years ahead of predictions published three years ago.
“This would outline the point of no return for reefs, cooperating their ability to supply a range of ecosystem services, including food, coastal protection, medicines and recreation opportunities,” the report informs.
Should countries achieve the “middle-of-the-road” scenario, severe bleaching could be deferred by 11 years, to 2045, UNEP said.
The report’s lead author, Ruben van Hooidonk, a coral researcher with America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), said “the miserable part is that the forecasts are even more terrible than before.
“We try to reduce our carbon emissions to save these reefs,” he said.
“This report explains that we need to do it even more instantly and take more action because it’s even worse than we thought.”
According to UNEP, while it is yet to precisely how corals adapt to changing temperatures, the report detects any opportunity of these adaptations pretentious between 0.25 degree Celsius and 2 degrees Celsius of warming.
It creates that every quarter degree of adaption leads to a possible seven-year suspension in projected annual bleaching.
That means corals could obtain a 30-year absolution from severe bleaching if they can familiarise to 1 degree Celsius of warming, the report says.
“However, if people keep up with its existing greenhouse-gas emissions, corals won’t last even with 2 degrees Celsius of adaptation,” it advises.
Saving the coral
Over the year, we have been searching for how people are reacting to climate change.
In June, we heard from the head of a team of researchers in Hawaii,
ground-breaking new techniques to preserve living coral, and eventually, save the biodiversity and genetic variety of coral reefs across the world.
Mary Hagedorn told UN News that one of the major threats to coral reefs in the warming of the oceans, which causes them more acidic and averts the coral from captivating the calcium carbonate that needs to grow.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker. With three years of working experience, he has developed courses with the support of other Climate Tracker staff.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
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Climate change could cause 63 million migrants in South Asia by 2050
The rising impacts of climate change have already forced more than 18 million people to migrate within South Asian countries, but that could more than triple if global warming remains on its existing rate, researchers informed.
Approximately 63 million people could be pushed from their homes by 2050 in South Asia as rising seas and river-side villages, and drought-hit land no longer helps crops, said ActionAid International and Climate Action Network South Asia in a report.
The forecast doesn’t include those who will force to flee unexpected disasters such as floods and cyclones, and so, is likely an irony, noted Harjeet Singh, global climate lead at ActionAid.
He said the consequence could become “catastrophic”.
Many will move to towns and cities from rural areas within their own countries, in search of work, he said.
There they will take shelter in slum areas exposed to flooding and with limited access to social services, doing perilous jobs such as rickshaw-pulling, construction or garment-making.
“Politicians in the Global North and the Global South are not yet awakening to this reality,” Singh told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “They aren’t understanding the scale of the problem, and how we are going to deal with (it).”
He requested rich nations with high global-warming emissions to increase efforts to reduce their carbon pollution and afford more funding for South Asian countries to make cleanly and explain to conditions on a warming planet.
If governments achieve a globally agreed goal to bound warming to below 2 degrees Celsius, the number of people driven to move in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal could be limit almost by half by 2050, the report said.
The new report, which used a recent version of the same methodology, raises the original 2050 prediction for South Asian migration by about half, adding in new statistics on sea-level rise, as well as the consequences of ecosystem losses and droughts.
This updated report also tracks anticipated migration on a greater scale.
Preparing for movement
The forecasts have financial consequences for nations such as India and Bangladesh, where poor people often lack the means to go far from their native homes to safer places without national support.
The new statistics show the biggest number of people are likely to migrate by 2050 in India, at more than 45 million.
But the country with the intense projected rise in migration in Bangladesh, with a seven-fold increase from today.
The report included examples collected by aid workers of people who have already been hit by deteriorating climate pressures.
In Pakistan’s arid Tharparkar district, Rajo, 37, and her husband, both labourers, moved to three different places in their area in the last three years to escape hunger caused by severe drought.
She lost a baby because of the heavy lifting in her job and had to borrow money from the landowner to cover medical bills for her family, told the researchers.
Kabita Maity, from an island in the Sundarbans delta region of India, had to migrate five times as earlier homes were gobbled up by the sea.
“We will have to stay here until the sea pushes us out, as we don’t have funds to buy land and relocate inwards,” Maity was quoted as saying.
The report called on South Asian governments to do more to prepare for deteriorating shift linked to climate change – and highlighted the importance of acting now to limit the number of people who will push to migrate in the future.
It recommended strengthening social protection systems to provide cash, and work for those affected by climate extremes and educating the basic services for migrant workers in towns – now hit doubly by the COVID-19 pandemic, with many left unemployed.
Measures that can help avoid “distress migration” include encouraging farming methods that keep soils in good condition, managing water more efficiently, improving access to markets or cultivating new crops and ways to earn money, the report noted.
Where people will move, authorities need to confirm the land is safe and fertile, tenure rights are secure, and people have enough money to build new homes, it added.
Sanjay Vashist, director of Climate Action Network South Asia, said undertaking poverty and difference also needed to be part of regional responses to climate migration.
“South Asian leaders must join forces and fix plans for the safety of migrating people,” he said in a statement.
This report has prepared based on the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Barcelona.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker. With three years of working experience, he has developed courses with the support of other Climate Tracker staff.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
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Climate Change Could Affect Ecological Balance in Higher Altitudes
Scientists from ETH Zürich, the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), and the University of Neuchâtel researched to see what could happen if herbivores—including different grasshoppers from middle elevations—inhabitant in alpine meadows at advanced elevations and came across new plant communities there. The study was issued recently in the Science journal.
Different grasshopper species those were translocated from middle altitudes (1,400 m above sea level) to three alpine grassland sites at elevations of 1800, 2070, and 2270 m above sea level, where the grasshoppers were in cages. The researchers detached local grasshoppers from the investigational areas before the experiment, performed in the Anzeindaz region in the Vaud Alps.
As part of the study, the team restrained how the biomass, structure, and composition of the alpine plant communities diverse under the impact of the herbivorous insects. They also investigated whether certain plant species were more exposed to herbivory, for example, plants with rough leaves, or those that contain more silica or other components like tannins or phenols.
Lowland Grasshoppers Influence Alpine Community
The ecologists found that the feeding activities of the grasshoppers had a clear impact on the flora structure and conformation of the alpine flora. Alpine communities show clear structure in the organization of the canopy, where plants with tough leaves are at the top, and more shade-tolerant plants with softer leaves are at the bottom.
However, there was an impact on this natural organization since the translocated grasshoppers tended to feed on taller and tough alpine plants, which had functional characteristics like leaf structure, chemical defence, nutrient content, or growth form analogous to those of their previous, lower-elevation food plants.
Thus, the insects reduced the biomass of dominant, tough alpine plants, thereby supporting the growth of smaller plant species evaded by the herbivores. It led to a growth in the total plant diversity in the short term.
“Immigrant herbivores consume specific plants in their new location and these changes, and it reorganises the competitive interaction between those alpine plant species.”
Patrice Descombes, Study First Author, ETH Zürich
Global warming, for example, could distress the ecological balance since mobile animals, such as the different species of herbivorous insects, can extend their habitat to higher elevations more quickly associated with sedentary plants.
Thus, herbivorous insects from lower altitudes could make their way into alpine habitats. Their resident plants are ineffectively or entirely not ready to protect themselves against the new herbivores.
That could change the current structure and purpose of alpine plant communities as a whole. Consequently, climate change would have an unintended effect on ecosystems, apart from the direct consequences of increasing temperatures.
Important Drivers of Changed Ecosystems
According to Loïc Pellisier, Professor of Landscape Ecology at ETH Zürich and WSL, this indirect impact of climate change on ecosystems is one of the most crucial results to be obtained from the study.
“Climate impact research has largely investigated the direct effects of temperature on ecosystems, but these novel interactions that arise between species moving into new habitats could generate important structural modifications. They are important drivers of changed ecosystems in an increasingly warm climate.”
Loïc Pellisier, Professor of Landscape Ecology, ETH Zürich
Using the study outcomes, the researchers aim to improve models that have fallen short of totally contributing such processes until now. Moreover, they hope that this will increase the prognosis of how climate change will affect the functioning of ecosystems and the services they offer.
Journal Reference:
Descombes, P., et al. (2020) Novel trophic interactions under climate change promote alpine plant coexistence. Science. doi.org/10.1126/science.abd7015.
When novel organisms change to a new habitat, they could encourage the ecological balance that has been formed over a long time. Herbivores and plants are classified by long-term co-evolution, which has formed not only their geographic distribution but also the features that they show in their habitats.
At higher advancements, insect herbivores are less plentiful in general, leading to plants being less well-protected against herbivores, due to quicker growing seasons and lower energy.
Besides, plant species natural to lower raises safeguard themselves against more varied and plentiful herbivores by having thorns or hair, spikes, or toxic substances. This environmental organization could be affected by climate change.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker. With three years of working experience, he has developed courses with the support of other Climate Tracker staff.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
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Climate Change Could Affect Ecological Balance in Higher Altitudes
When novel organisms change to a new habitat, they could encourage the ecological balance that has been formed over a long time. Herbivores and plants are categorised by long-term co-evolution, which has formed not only their geographic distribution but also the features that they show in their habitats.
At higher advancements, insect herbivores are less plentiful in general, leading to plants being less well-protected against herbivores, due to quicker growing seasons and lower energy.
Besides, plant species natural to lower raises safeguard themselves against more varied and plentiful herbivores by having thorns or hair, spikes, or toxic substances. This environmental organization could be affected by climate change.
Grasshoppers Translocated to High Elevations
Scientists from ETH Zürich, the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), and the University of Neuchâtel experimented to see what could happen if herbivores—including different grasshoppers from middle elevations—inhabitant in alpine meadows at advanced elevations and came across new plant communities there. The study was issued recently in the Science journal.
Different grasshopper species were translocated from middle altitudes (1,400 m above sea level) to three alpine grassland sites at elevations of 1800, 2070, and 2270 m above sea level, where the grasshoppers were kept in cages. The researchers detached local grasshoppers from the investigational areas before the experiment, which was performed in the Anzeindaz region in the Vaud Alps.
As part of the study, the team restrained how the biomass, structure, and composition of the alpine plant communities diverse under the impact of the herbivorous insects. They also investigated whether certain plant species were more exposed to herbivory, for example, plants with harder leaves, or those that contain more silica or other components like tannins or phenols.
Lowland Grasshoppers Influence Alpine Community
The ecologists found that the feeding activities of the grasshoppers had a clear impact on the flora structure and conformation of the alpine flora. Alpine communities show clear structure in the organization of the canopy, where plants with tough leaves are at the top and more shade-tolerant plants with softer leaves are at the bottom.
However, there was an impact on this natural organization since the translocated grasshoppers tended to feed on taller and tough alpine plants, which had functional characteristics like leaf structure, chemical defence, nutrient content, or growth form analogous to those of their previous, lower-elevation food plants.
Thus, the insects reduced the biomass of dominant, tough alpine plants, thereby supporting the growth of smaller plant species evaded by the herbivores. This led to a growth in the total plant diversity in the short term.
“Immigrant herbivores consume specific plants in their new location and this changes and reorganises the competitive interaction between those alpine plant species.”
Patrice Descombes, Study First Author, ETH Zürich
Global warming, for example, could distress the ecological balance since mobile animals, such as the different species of herbivorous insects, can extend their habitat to higher elevations more quickly associated to sedentary plants.
Thus, herbivorous insects from lower altitudes could simply make their way into alpine habitats where resident plants are ineffectively or entirely not ready to protect themselves against the new herbivores.
This could change the current structure and purpose of alpine plant communities as a whole. Thus, climate change would have an unintended effect on ecosystems, apart from the direct consequences of increasing temperatures.
Important Drivers of Changed Ecosystems
According to Loïc Pellisier, Professor of Landscape Ecology at ETH Zürich and WSL, this indirect impact of climate change on ecosystems is one of the most crucial results to be obtained from the study.
“Climate impact research has largely investigated the direct effects of temperature on ecosystems, but these novel interactions that arise between species moving into new habitats could generate important structural modifications. They are important drivers of changed ecosystems in an increasingly warm climate.”
Loïc Pellisier, Professor of Landscape Ecology, ETH Zürich
Using the study outcomes, the researchers aim to improve models that have fallen short of completely contributing such processes until now. Moreover, they hope that this will increase the prognosis of how climate change will affect the functioning of ecosystems and the services they offer.
Journal Reference:
Descombes, P., et al. (2020) Novel trophic interactions under climate change promote alpine plant coexistence. Science. doi.org/10.1126/science.abd7015.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker. With three years of working experience, he has developed courses with the support of other Climate Tracker staff.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
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Tunisia’s ancient Olives are struggling to keep up with climate change.
Just as the Lebanese cherish their “Cedars of God,” olives are the pride of the Tunisian people. We are the world’s biggest exporters of Olive oil, and almost all of our farms are organic and non-irrigated, leaving us especially vulnerable to changes in rainfall and heat.
Welcome to Climate Blog!
This week, meet Eman Nighaoui, a passionate young writer from Tunisia, who has just joined our team at Climate Tracker.
Greetings from Tunisia!
My name is Eman Nighaoui, and 2020 has been tough for us all hasn’t it?
This year Tunisia’s weather has become more erratic than ever. For me, it’s a relatively small issue. My pomegranate tree died this year because of the weather, and it broke my heart. But for our fisherman, where the hot weather brings storm surges and higher winds, the number of fishing days each year has shifted from 6 months to 60 days.
For our farmers and their famous olive trees, I fear they might soon see the same fate of my pomegranate. Just as the Lebanese cherish their “Cedars of God,” olives are the pride of the Tunisian people. We are the world’s biggest exporters of Olive oil, and almost all of our farms are organic and non-irrigated, leaving us especially vulnerable to changes in rainfall and heat. In February, the drought in some of our poorer regions was so bad, that our minister of religious affairs asked all Imams to “pray for rain”.
Unfortunately, their prayers were unanswered, and our Olive oil production is down by64% this year.
What gives me some hope is that in a year of drought, emerging group Youth for Climate has had a fruitful year. Recently they created an online series called “Climate Rebillioun” to spur on the discussion on climate change, and have recently organised their online Climate Strike; with youth across Tunisia sharing their photos.
I just joined Climate Tracker this month, and hope next year I can connect with many more young Arabic journalists across the MENA region. Lina Yassin and I have a dream to create our own Arabic Climate Tracker site next year. We want to create the most vibrant Arabic language climate journalism community in the world.
If you’d like to help us build it, please reach out!
The Climate Action Summit is over. Some 70 Heads of Government, along with local and city leaders, and heads of major businesses, have delivered a series of new measures, policies and plans, aimed at making a big hollow in greenhouse gas emissions, and ensuring that the warming of the planet is limited to 1.5°C.
The number of states coming frontward with reinforced national climate plans (NDCs) grew remarkably today, with commitments covering some of the top emitters globally on display.
The UK, which is organizing next year’s UN Climate Conference, declared that it aims to cut emissions by 68%, compared to 1990 levels, within the next five years, and the European Union bloc committed to a 55% cut over the same time dated.
At least 24 states announced new pledges, strategies or plans to reach carbon neutrality, and several states set out how they are going even more, with resolute dates to reach net-zero: Finland by 2035, Austria by 2040 and Sweden by 2045.
Pakistan declared that its sparring plans for new coal power plants, India will soon more than double its renewable energy target, and China committed to increasing the share of non-fossil fuel in primary energy consumption to around 25% by 2030.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker. With three years of working experience, he has developed courses with the support of other Climate Tracker staff.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
If you have any questions, comments or want to get involved, email Zulker Naeen at naeenzulker@gmail.com – that’s me. I’d love to hear from you. And if you’ve been forwarded this email and liked what you saw, why not subscribe?
climate change could devastate nearly all of Earth's coral reef habitats by 2100
Climate change is making aquatic heatwaves extensive and more frequent, which has caused several mass coral bleaching events in recent years. Now it looks that few corals can recover from bleaching even while aquatic heatwaves are unending.
The aquatic heatwave was the extended ever documented. “Scientists had projected that no coral reef would observe that much heat stress until mid-century,” says Baum.
Baum’s team categorized more than 100 corals of two species – Platygyra ryukyuensis and Favites pentagona – at many sites around the island. Some were in places close to populated villages, meaning they had already been troubled, and others were in areas that were primaeval before the heatwave began. The group snapped and traced individual corals over the progression of the heatwave.
The team was astonished to notice that some corals survived bleaching, improving even though the water temperature was still raised.
These corals primarily cohabited with heat-sensitive symbiotic algae, tolerated the bleaching event, and then improved by teaming up with heat-tolerant symbionts.
In regular marine temperatures, heat-sensitive algae are plentiful partners to their coral hosts, photosynthesizing and giving the corals with energy. Corals in companionships with heat-sensitive algae look fatter because they can make lipid reserves, says Baum.
“Corals are only shown this ability to recover from bleaching while still in hot water if they weren’t also exposed to strong local stressors,” says Baum.
The team identified that corals in highly troubled areas confined mainly heat-tolerant symbionts before the heatwave. Although they primarily counterattacked bleaching, F. pentagona corals that began with heat-tolerant algae had no existence advantage, and P. ryukyuensis corals with the symbionts were essentially 3.3 times less likely to live.
The results indicate that local shield of corals is helpful in the face of climate change, says Baum.
Reef-building corals can make unpredicted recoveries from climate change-induced damage.
It turns out that some corals only look defunct when exposed to unusually warm water. Instead, the coral’s polyps shrink and flight into their hard skeleton, making the reef appear dead, before recolonizing the skeleton when conditions are better. It is an endurance method never seen before in today’s corals – but it may not help the corals as the climate endures to change.
Corals have been hard hit by warming waters. Reefs globally, including the Great Barrier Reef, are edging towards collapse. The slow-growing endangered species Cladocora caespitosa is particularly exposed to destruction with little sign so far as to whether it can regenerate.
The Climate Action Summit is over. Some 70 Heads of Government, along with local and city leaders, and heads of major businesses, have delivered a series of new measures, policies and plans, aimed at making a big hollow in greenhouse gas emissions, and ensuring that the warming of the planet is limited to 1.5°C.
The number of states coming frontward with reinforced national climate plans (NDCs) grew remarkably today, with commitments covering some of the top emitters globally on display.
The UK, which is organizing next year’s UN Climate Conference, declared that it aims to cut emissions by 68%, compared to 1990 levels, within the next five years, and the European Union bloc committed to a 55% cut over the same time dated.
At least 24 states announced new pledges, strategies or plans to reach carbon neutrality, and several states set out how they are going even more, with resolute dates to reach net-zero: Finland by 2035, Austria by 2040 and Sweden by 2045.
Pakistan declared that its sparring plans for new coal power plants, India will soon more than double its renewable energy target, and China committed to increasing the share of non-fossil fuel in primary energy consumption to around 25% by 2030.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker. With three years of working experience, he has developed courses with the support of other Climate Tracker staff.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
If you have any questions, comments or want to get involved, email Zulker Naeen at naeenzulker@gmail.com – that’s me. I’d love to hear from you. And if you’ve been forwarded this email and liked what you saw, why not subscribe?
Climate change to lose polar bear inhabitants by 2100
Global carbon emissions may have temperate Earth by 18% more than formerly thought, hoisting the outlook of the world having less time than estimated to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement and evadetragic climate change.
The global average temperature is expected to have scaled about 1.07°C since the industrial revolution, up from a prior estimate of 0.91°C.
This revise brings all three of the world’s key temperature data sets in the line, signifying the real temperature rise is at the higher end of preceding ranges.
The result means governments may have less time to limit carbon emissions to grasp the temperature rise to 1.5°C or 2°C under the Paris contract, and recent estimates of future warming may rise too.
“Climate change hasn’t rapidly got worse. It’s just our assessment of how much warming has taken place has enhanced,” says Tim Osborn at the University of East Anglia, UK, who today published a paper with Met Office colleagues on the fifth update to the data, known as the Hadley Centre Climatic Research Unit Temperature (HadCRUT5).
The 18% increase is the highest in years of HadCRUT revisions but brings it approximately in line with the two other main data sets used to observe global temperatures, run by US agencies NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
It is remarkable how strongly these three independent data sets now resemble one another, says Kate Marvel at Columbia University, New York, who wasn’t engaged to Osborn’s paper.
The change was overdue, say, climate scientists. “Honestly, many of us have extensivelydocumented that the HadCRUT data set overestimated the warming,” says Michael Mann at Pennsylvania State University.
There are two key reasons for the 0.16°C upwards changes in the previous warming. The biggest was changes to how the HadCRUT team looked at sea surface temperatures, distinctively how it was calculated by ships taking the temperature of seawater in their engine rooms.
The new is that gaps in the data set’s reporting of the Arctic, which has been warming two to three times as fast as the global average, have been filled in. Before grid squares for the region were left empty if there was no observational data – now they are expected with data from nearby squares.
The new research may efficientlyminimize the world’s carbon budget, the amount that can be emitted without breaching temperature targets. The UN’s climate science panel, the IPCC, said in 2018 that global emissions need to roughly halve by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050 to have a two-thirds chance of staying under 1.5°C.
It is too early to say how much today’s update may change that timeline. “The IPCC has overestimated the available carbon budget through choices that tend to underestimate the warming we’ve already experienced. That, of course, means that there is a lot more work to do if we are to avoid dangerous warming,” says Mann.
The other outcome of the elevated warming is some estimates of climate sensitivity – how much the world will warm based on a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide – will rise slightly, says Osborn.
In the end, the review to HadCRUT doesn’t significantly change our situation, researchers told New Scientist, as governments and scientists rely on more than one of the key temperature data sets. “None of these things modifies the big picture: the earth is warming and it’s because of human activities,” says Gavin Schmidt at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
The Climate Action Summit is over. Some 70 Heads of Government, along with local and city leaders, and heads of major businesses, have delivered a series of new measures, policies and plans, aimed at making a big hollow in greenhouse gas emissions, and ensuring that the warming of the planet is limited to 1.5°C.
The number of states coming frontward with reinforced national climate plans (NDCs) grew remarkably today, with commitments covering some of the top emitters globally on display.
The UK, which is organizing next year’s UN Climate Conference, declared that it aims to cut emissions by 68%, compared to 1990 levels, within the next five years, and the European Union bloc committed to a 55% cut over the same time dated.
At least 24 states announced new pledges, strategies or plans to reach carbon neutrality, and several states set out how they are going even more, with resolute dates to reach net-zero: Finland by 2035, Austria by 2040 and Sweden by 2045.
Pakistan declared that its sparring plans for new coal power plants, India will soon more than double its renewable energy target, and China committed to increasing the share of non-fossil fuel in primary energy consumption to around 25% by 2030.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker. With three years of working experience, he has developed courses with the support of other Climate Tracker staff.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
If you have any questions, comments or want to get involved, email Zulker Naeen at naeenzulker@gmail.com – that’s me. I’d love to hear from you. And if you’ve been forwarded this email and liked what you saw, why not subscribe?
A recent report from the International oceanic advocacy group, Oceana, has identified Florida as having more wildlife incidents by plastics pollutions in the ocean than anywhere else in the United States.
Ocean’s report revealed the evidence of nearly 1800 marine animals becoming dishevelled in or swallowing plastic wreckages in the ocean dating back to 2009. Of those 1800 animals, 88% are listed as either threatened or vulnerable.
Sea turtles, manatees, and other marine life off the coast of Florida made up 55% of the animals who were battered or slain by plastic pollution in the report.
“Looking through more than 300 cases of the way plastic is excruciatingly going through these animals is just actually a sad story,” Kim Warner, a senior scientist with Oceana, said.
Warner would continue to say that she also believes the bottlenose dolphin population in Florida swallows a substantial amount of plastic as well. It is harder to study; however, since most dolphins die in the ocean where their bodies are not able to be collected.
The Environmental Protection Agency, however, speaks that the plastics off the beach of Florida are the fault of other countries.
“60% of the world’s marine litter comes from six Asian countries,” Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler said from the White House in 2019.
The EPA also released its plan to address marine pollution. The plan stated they would be looking to stop other countries from “making our oceans into their landfills.”
“The United States has some of the most attractive coastlines and oceans in the world, and the coastlines are implausible,” President Trump is quoted as saying in the EPA’s plan. “As president, I will continue to do everything I can to stop other nations from making our oceans into their landfills.”
A recent report proposes that the United States plays a far greater role in marine plastic pollution than the EPA is signifying it does, however. This report addressed that the United States generates the most plastic waste of any country on the planet.
Co-author of the report and director of Ocean Conservancy’s Trash Free Seas program, Nick Mallos, commented on the USA’s role in oceanic plastic pollution.
“The United States produces the most plastic waste of any other country in the world, but rather than identifying the problem in the eye, we have delegated it to the developing countries and become a top giver to the ocean plastics crisis,” said Mallos.
“The resolution has to start at home. We need to generate less, by cutting out needless single-use plastics; we need to make better, by creating innovative new ways to package and carry goods; and where plastics are unavoidable, we need to improve our recycling rates.”
The Climate Action Summit is over. Some 70 Heads of Government, along with local and city leaders, and heads of major businesses, have delivered a series of new measures, policies and plans, aimed at making a big hollow in greenhouse gas emissions, and ensuring that the warming of the planet is limited to 1.5°C.
The number of states coming frontward with reinforced national climate plans (NDCs) grew remarkably today, with commitments covering some of the top emitters globally on display.
The UK, which is organizing next year’s UN Climate Conference, declared that it aims to cut emissions by 68%, compared to 1990 levels, within the next five years, and the European Union bloc committed to a 55% cut over the same time dated.
At least 24 states announced new pledges, strategies or plans to reach carbon neutrality, and several states set out how they are going even more, with resolute dates to reach net-zero: Finland by 2035, Austria by 2040 and Sweden by 2045.
Pakistan declared that its sparring plans for new coal power plants, India will soon more than double its renewable energy target, and China committed to increasing the share of non-fossil fuel in primary energy consumption to around 25% by 2030.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker. With three years of working experience, he has developed courses with the support of other Climate Tracker staff.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
If you have any questions, comments or want to get involved, email Zulker Naeen at naeenzulker@gmail.com – that’s me. I’d love to hear from you. And if you’ve been forwarded this email and liked what you saw, why not subscribe?
The Climate Action Summit is over. Some 70 Heads of Government, along with local and city leaders, and heads of major businesses, have delivered a series of new measures, policies and plans, aimed at making a big hollow in greenhouse gas emissions, and ensuring that the warming of the planet is limited to 1.5°C.
The number of states coming frontward with reinforced national climate plans (NDCs) grew remarkably today, with commitments covering some of the global main emitters on display.
The UK, which is organizing next year’s UN Climate Conference, declared that it aims to cut emissions by 68%, compared to 1990 levels, within the next five years, and the European Union bloc committed to a 55% cut over the same time dated.
At least 24 states announced new pledges, strategies or plans to reach carbon neutrality, and several states set out how they are going even more, with resolute dates to reach net-zero: Finland by 2035, Austria by 2040 and Sweden by 2045.
Pakistan declared that its sparring plans for new coal power plants, India will soon more than double its renewable energy target, and China committed to increasing the share of non-fossil fuel in primary energy consumption to around 25% by 2030.
This link will take you to the Summit press release, with full details of the commitments made today.
These statements are a sign that there is real momentum as we head towards the next big step on the road to carbon neutrality, the COP26 UN Climate Conference, in November 2021. UN News will continue to report on the fight against the climate crisis, up to and beyond COP26 and, for more features, news stories, interviews and more, you can look through our archive, which you will find here.
What comes next?
The Summit is categorized as the preliminary gun for the “The sprint to Glasgow”, referring to the deferred UN Climate Conference (COP26) which will hold in the Scottish city in November 2021. The year-long sprint is a push for states to declare even more striving and widespread plans to curb emissions and make their economies “Greener” and more sustainable.
The virus shaped economic havoc on the world but, with the release of COVID-19 vaccines expected in 2021, economies will begin opening up, and the UN is fronting attempts to ensure that the world will “Build back better”, rather than returning to a fossil-fuel based business as usual.
To know more on UN’s vision for a cleaner future, check out the climate change website, which outlines some of the ways that the world should remake, with six climate-positive actions, including investments in sustainable jobs and businesses, ending bailouts for infecting industries and fossil-fuel grants, including climate risks and opportunities in all financial and policy decisions.
Saving the coral
Over the year, we have been searching for how people are reacting to climate change. In June, we heard from the head of a team of researchers in Hawaii, ground-breaking new techniques to preserve living coral, and eventually save the biodiversity and genetic variety of coral reefs across the world.
Mary Hagedorn told UN News that one of the key threats to coral reefs is the warming of the oceans, which causes them more acidic, and averts the coral from captivating the calcium carbonate that they need to grow.
The six champions of the UN’s highest ecological award, the Champions of the Earth, were declared on Friday, glorifying some of the world’s most active environmental leaders, from pioneering scientists and captains of industry to heads of state and community activists.
These inspirational individuals include Robert Bullard, the “Father of Environmental Justice”, who has been promoting for racial equality and fair ecological and urban planning for over four decades; aboriginal rights activist and environmental activist, Nemonte Nenquimo, of the Waorani people of Pastaza in Ecuador, who took the Ecuadorian government to court, for offering huge areas of the Amazonian rainforest to oil companies; and veterinarian Dr Fabian Leendertz, a zoonotic disease specialist, whose ground-breaking investigations into pathogens like Anthrax and Ebola have explored how the contagions jump between animals and humans.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker. With three years of working experience, he has developed courses with the support of other Climate Tracker staff.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
Tea farmers in the Asian country have long enjoyed a very stable and predictable climate, but as global warming and Covid-19 upends that equilibrium, they respond with new ways to farm and sell their products.
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Bangladesh fears a drop in foreign direct investment due to RCEP
The effects of the RCEP agreement may decline after Bangladesh loses its duty-free export facility when it graduates from a least developed country to a developing one.
Highlights:
$950 million derived to Bangladesh from RCEP-listed countries in FY2019-20.
Bangladesh receives about one-third of its FDI from RCEP member countries every year.
The impacts of the RCEP agreement may deteriorate after Bangladesh loses its duty-free export facility when it advances from a least developed country to a developing one.
Bangladesh’s Delegation in Beijing has called for reinforcing trade relations with RCEP members, the European Union and the US, before the advancement by signing free trade agreements and bilateral or multilateral agreements
Vietnam’s inclusion in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the world’s biggest trade bloc, will harm Bangladesh’s exports.
Moreover, foreign direct investment (FDI) in Bangladesh from the major Asian economies included in the contract may decline, fears the Bangladesh delegation in Beijing.
The effects of this contract may deteriorate after Bangladesh loses its duty-free export facility when it rises from a least developed country (LDC) to a developing one.
So, the delegation instructed the authorities concerned to sign free trade agreements (FTAs) with the European Union and the US, before the advancement.
The delegation also opined in favour of reinforcing trade relations with RCEP members, including China, by signing FTAs or bilateral or multilateral agreements.
In a statement sent to the commerce ministry on 2 December this year, Mohammad Monsour Uddin, commercial counsellor at the Bangladesh Embassy in Beijing, said, “RCEP will not only increase trade and liberalise tariffs among its members but also create a favourable environment for investment and development value chains and production networks.”
“So, countries like China, Japan and South Korea will be motivated to invest in RCEP member countries due to the special market access and the mutual standards offered by RCEP. This would create some challenges for Bangladesh to fascinate FDI from these countries,” he added.
According to the Bangladesh Bank, FDI of $3,232 million came to Bangladesh in the fiscal year 2019-20. Of this sum, $950 million came from RCEP-listed countries like Singapore, China, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, and Malaysia. Results, Bangladesh receives around one-third of its FDI from RCEP member countries every year.
On 15 November, 15 countries – including Australia, New Zealand and 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) – inked the RCEP deal, which covers 2.2 billion people with a combined GDP of $26.2 trillion.
Meanwhile, a board set up by the commerce ministry to review RCEP’s impact and assess Bangladesh’s inclusion in the multilateral agreement will see for the first time on Monday.
Shahidul Islam, head of the board and additional secretary to the ministry, told us that the committee would find the scope of work at the meeting. Later, the board will prepare a report with recommendations after meeting the stakeholders.
Dr Mostafa Abid, a member of the committee and Bangladesh Trade and Tariff Commission, told TBS, “There is a concern that the RCEP may affect our exports and FDI. After our advancement from LDC, exports may suffer more.”
“An inclusive study is required to review the impact of the RCEP. The board will meet with the public and private sectors and make endorsements to the government on their views,” he continued.
“Bangladesh now has no access to join the RECP in the next 18 months, even if it wants to be involved in it. So, we have to take full preparation at this time. To be included in the RCEP, we need to make major changes to our trade policy,” Dr Abid added.
The delegation report also said, “Unlike from Vietnam – who has contracted various Regional Trade Agreements such as RCEP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership – Bangladesh, advancement to LDC, is not guaranteed free trade access to these markets.”
This Forum is for the community of the country’s Business & Economic News. This community started its journey in 2020. Ever since then, it has been the sole source for news and updates regarding finance and economics. This community aims to educate society on how the developments can shape their lives and how they should prepare themselves to participate in this economy. It shares news and in-depth reviews on the latest happenings around Bangladesh.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker. With three years of working experience, he has developed courses with the support of other Climate Tracker staff.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
Tea farmers in the Asian country have long enjoyed a very stable and predictable climate, but as global warming and Covid-19 upends that equilibrium, they respond with new ways to farm and sell their products.
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Tigers are roaming Kashmir as mega-dams displace 20,000 people
Thanks to state-led infrastructure expansion, rampant deforestation has left tigers and bears without any place to find food, and it has resulted in many violent attacks.
Welcome to our Climate Blog!
This week, we’d like to introduce Raqib Hameed Naik, a courageous multimedia journalist based in Kashmir, who has been telling the story of climate change and mega-development at the edge of Modi’s nationalist expansion.
As Salamu Alikum!
I am Raqib, writing to you from a region knows for its mountains, beautiful valleys, and unfortunately, a continuous conflict. These days Kashmir is the most militarized zone on the earth and is struggling to contain the spread of contagious Coronavirus with more than 114,407 cases and 1767 deaths.
But thanks to state-led infrastructure expansion, rampant deforestation has left tigers and bears without any place to find food. It has resulted in many violent attacks. Over the past five years, 65 people have died, and 940 have been injured in animal attacks across Kashmir. I live in the main town in Doda district. On some nights, we have tigers taking a stroll in the residential areas. Would you like to come and visit??
In my reporting, I met families who were among the 20,000 people impacted or displaced by these dams. Experts told me that the dams are a threat to the delicate ecology of the region, and could increase seismic activity in the region.
Tigers are roaming Kashmir as mega-dams displace 20,000 people
This photo is one I took of A girl holding a child at her house on a hill next to Baglihar Dam in Ramban district.
Since the publishing of the story, many people are now worried about the scale of the projects, labelling them as part of India’s colonial quest to exploit Kashmir’s resources.
The experience was always soothing. But recent reports suggest the farmers are suffering, as crop yields have dropped by nearly 65% in the last 20 years. It has affected thousands of families in Kashmir, especially women, who make up half of all of Kashmir’s saffron farmers.
If we go by a University of Kashmir study published this year in the journal Climatic Change, Kashmir is set for an astronomical temperature to rise of 7 degrees. That spells trouble for Kashmir’s most important spice, let alone our disappearing glaciers.
I remember, some 18 years ago, the average temperature during Summer in my home would hover around 30 to 35 degrees.
It was hot, but you could manage just fine with fans alone. But now, the temperature touches 40 degrees, and air conditioners have become a necessity.
While air conditioning is becoming critical, Kashmir has always felt like a never-ending saga of problems. From unending conflict, 30 years of human rights abuses at the hands of Indian forces and now a forceful demographic change under Modi’s Hindu nationalist government, we have braved it all.
But since his government rescinded Kashmir’s special autonomy last August, I feel like they have ramped up their crackdown on journalists, activists and environmental defenders. For my friends and family, the road ahead to fight climate change, seek accountability and challenge potentially disastrous infrastructure projects seems arduous, if not impossible.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker. With three years of working experience, he has developed courses with the support of other Climate Tracker staff.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
Tea farmers in the Asian country have long enjoyed a very stable and predictable climate, but as global warming and Covid-19 upends that equilibrium, they respond with new ways to farm and sell their products.
If you have any questions, comments or want to get involved, email Zulker Naeen at naeenzulker@gmail.com – that’s me. I’d love to hear from you…….and don’t worry, I’m locked inside too. And if you’ve been forwarded this email and liked what you saw, why not subscribe?
Cutting trees and public consultations in Kenya during COVID-19
As we’ve got seen in many countries, there are widely held concern that the govt. of Kenya took advantage of the Corona-virus outbreak to means these approvals without proper public consultation.
Welcome to our Climate Blog!
Each week we ask one guest writer from our network to send us the most effective climate news from their region.
This week, we reached out to Dominic Kirui, a freelance journalist from Nairobi who shares a number of the local shifts he’s seen publicly consultations since the Coronavirus began.
Jambo!
My name is Dominic Kirui. I’m writing this about five minutes’ drive from the Nairobi park where, if I wasn’t tied to my laptop, I would even be ready to spot a rhino!
But I should warn you, if you’re not planning a visit to Nairobi soon, you may miss out. The govt. is rapidly encroaching into the parking area, first through a Chinese funded and constructed railway across the park, and a road alongside it. they’re now also planning a hotel within the black rhino breeding area. you would possibly remember, sadly the last white rhino died in Kenya only some months ago.
As we’ve got seen in many countries, there are widely held concern that the govt. took advantage of the Coronavirus outbreak to means these approvals without proper public consultation. At the identical time, they’re clearing iconic green space within the city for brand new 27km expressway, irrespective of the calls to prevent the destruction.
However, the most well-liked topic in Kenya without delay is also a precursor to the longer term of the world plastic industry.
The American Chemistry Council and also the Kenyan Ministry of Trade and Industry are said to be performing on a deal which will see Kenya lift its globally celebrated ban on plastic bags, allowing American companies to ship plastic waste into Africa through Kenya.
When the worldwide climate strikes hit Nairobi last week, this was one in every of their most vocal demands. The activists headed to the liberty corner at Uhuru Park in Nairobi, once famously protected by the late Wangari Maathai and coordinated under the hashtag
#AfricaIsNotADumpster
Outside Nairobi, our coffee farmers are feeling the impacts of climate stress, and a few are even looking to abandon coffee farming for avocados, thanks to shifting conditions.
This may be one in all the explanations why Amina Mohamed has been nominated as Kenyaian candidate within the running to become the subsequent Director-General of the globe Trade Organization. She promised to target global climate change if selected, and at a media briefing last month queried, “How is it possible that the WTO doesn’t discuss climate change?… (the) WTO must be part of the world conversation on temperature change.”
Across the border, I’ve also been impressed by the Ugandan climate justice activist, Vanessa Nakate, who is leading a campaign against her government’s decision to substitute about 411sq km of Bugoma Forest for sugarcane plantation. take a look at #SaveBugomaForest to search out how you’ll be able to get entangled.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker. With three years working experience, he has developed courses with the support of other Climate Tracker staff.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
Tea farmers in the Asian country have long enjoyed a very stable and predictable climate, but as global warming and Covid-19 upends that equilibrium, they respond with new ways to farm and sell their products.
If you have any questions, comments or want to get involved, email Zulker Naeen at naeenzulker@gmail.com – that’s me. I’d love to hear from you…and don’t worry, I’m locked inside too. And if you’ve been forwarded this email and liked what you saw, why not subscribe?
Several trees were uprooted after Super Typhoon Goni lashed Bicol region
Typhoons regularly batter the Philippines. Climate change is exacerbating our exposure for sure. It is an experience of when a Climate Emergency is not enough.
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This week, we’d like to introduce Gaea Katreena Cabico, a journalist from the Philippines who writes stories about the environment, climate crisis, human rights and health in Philstar.
Kumusta! 👋
I am Gaea Cabico, writing and working from my apartment in Metro Manila, where mornings have gotten colder as we approach the holiday season.
This year, Christmas festivities will inevitably be different; with over 435,000 COVID-19 cases and 8,000 deaths, Filipinos will celebrate Christmas in quarantine — during one of the longest lockdowns in the world.
On top of movement restrictions, the Philippines faced three strong typhoons in the past two months, including Super Typhoon Goni, the world’s strongest storm in 2020.
Two more cyclones are projected to affect the country before this challenging year ends.
Thankfully, aside from our uprooted Mango tree, our house was spared. A friend not too far away had to be rescued because his home was flooded.
According to legislative probes in the days since, the flooding was a result of climate changes, but not alone. Typhoons regularly batter the Philippines. Climate change is exacerbating our exposure for sure.
But these recent flooding events and many of our worst disasters are also the direct results of denuded watersheds, resource exploitation and decades of short-sighted planning that has left millions of people, more vulnerable to storms like this.
As a response, President Rodrigo Duterte (who has a penchant for creating task forces) formed another task force called “Build Back Better.” Someone’s been watching Biden’s Presidential campaign.
From what I can tell, the task force is going to be responsible for implementing and monitoring our post-disaster recovery and rehabilitation efforts going forward.
Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution declaring a climate emergency. To me, this non-binding declaration only appears as lip service from politicians. While this declaration urges local governments and agencies to adopt policies to mitigate the effects of climate change, it does not legally compel them to act.
Duterte has not declared a climate emergency himself. He is said to be studying the proposal. What the country urgently needs is a climate emergency declaration that will establish a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach to address the crisis, hold polluters accountable and ensure the country’s rapid transition to renewable energy.
In October, before these storms, we had a small signal of hope. The Energy Department announced it will no longer accept new proposals to construct coal power plants. Though lauded by anti-coal campaigners, the ‘ban’, which is not yet national policy, doesn’t include previously approved projects that are already in the pipeline. And finding out how many are still in this ‘pipeline’ is a challenge.
While the move is not going to be enough, it is a huge step toward the right direction, for a country still ringing the water from the walls of Typhoons Goni and Vamco.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker. With three years working experience, he has developed courses with the support of other Climate Tracker staff.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
Regional Trends: A comparison of the five countries analysed
A comparative analysis of coal and renewable energy coverage across the five countries in this study yielded some interesting similarities and differences that will be further explored in this section.
We will first discuss the three prominent thematic trends seen in reporting, and then move on to examine two trends in journalistic practices, before ending by discussing significant outliers and best practices observed.
Each of the countries in our study—the five “tiger cub” countries of Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, and the Philippines—has a unique media landscape with different challenges and opportunities for energy reporting.
Trends in Energy Framing
Regional Trends: A comparison of the five countries analysed
The portrayal of coal in media closely approximates the country’s coal dependency
Though Southeast Asia is often monolithically framed as the region where “coal is still king,” there are significant differences in how each country uses this fossil fuel, as well as how civil society reacts to coal development. All these elements affect how coal policy discourse plays out in national media.
Looking specifically at coal reporting in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand, it is striking how much the media’s framing of coal depends on how reliant a country is on this energy type.
Table 1. compares the number of articles framing coal positively as a percentage of total coal articles versus how much coal contributes to national energy capacity as a percentage of the total energy mix.
For three of the countries examined, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Thailand, the difference between positive frames per total coal article sample and coal capacity per total energy capacity fell within 1 to 2 percentage points. Given the margin of error associated with our small article sample size, the only significant outlier was the Philippines, with a 10-percentage-point difference between the two.
Even though the Philippines is just as reliant on coal as Malaysia, 88 of 133 coal articles in the Philippines framed the fossil fuel negatively, while only 46 of 113 articles in Malaysia did so.
Renewable energy overwhelmingly framed as a lucrative investment
While the tiger cubs’ media outlets disagreed on how large role coal will play in their countries’ futures, one thing was clear: they were overwhelmingly optimistic about renewable energy’s growth. Solar, in particular, generated much excitement, as seen in the fact that positive articles about it outnumbered those about coal in all countries analyzed except for Indonesia, where the two were equal.
Additionally, for four of the five countries, positive frames made up more than 75 percent of total stories about non-hydro renewables (solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal).
The outlier was Vietnam, where only 65 percent of non-hydro renewable stories portrayed these technologies positively. Vietnam doesn’t lag in terms of renewable energy development.
However; in fact, the country is a definitive regional leader with 4.5GW of installed solar capacity or more than that of the whole ASEAN region combined. It is not that more articles in Vietnam framed renewables negatively compared to other tiger cub countries; more articles displayed a neutral, cautious tone, which acknowledged Vietnam’s renewable potential while highlighting challenges encountered in its development. Common difficulties discussed were unclear regulations, lack of transmission lines, and a tight FiT deadline. Vietnam’s media have been following the solar development story since the first FiT scheme in 2017 led to a massive investment boom; articles went into detail about the minutiae of solar technologies and policy challenges for a mainstream audience. This corresponded with comparatively high solar energy literacy among journalists as well as the average reader.
In other words, with the “solar experiment” well underway, journalists in Vietnam prioritized analyzing the remaining barriers to further growth rather than simply promoting solar power or renewable energy as an abstract concept.
In Indonesia, meanwhile, where neither solar nor any other renewable energy technology has been installed in significant numbers, 96 percent of renewable energy articles adopted a positive frame.
However, nearly half of these stories discussed renewable energy in the abstract without providing any specific policy analysis or recommendation. Journalists here viewed renewable technologies as difficult to understand and write about in-depth.
Indonesia’s Kompas editor Erlangga Djumena described the situation, saying renewable energy “has limited sources [for journalists to cite/interview] because it is still rare…plus the sources are too technical. Not only the readers, but the journalists are also sometimes confused.”
Because of this lack of understanding, it was difficult for journalists to dive deeper into any specific renewable energy source.
Not all renewables are treated alike
When analyzing the articles that do dive into specific renewable energy technologies, it was clear that not all renewables were treated alike by the media. In all countries analyzed, solar received the most coverage as renewable energy with high potential for future growth; this was true even in the Philippines, where geothermal contributes 67 more megawatts to the total energy capacity.
In contrast to solar, other renewable energy forms—notably wind, geothermal, and biomass—received relatively little attention from media outlets across the region except for Thailand, where the government recently implemented more-aggressive biomass development programs through the Energy for All initiative, which attracted positive and negative coverage.
In Indonesia, biofuel turned out to be a close contender to solar in terms of frequency of coverage, as 20% of Indonesia’s energy articles focused on solar while 17% focused on biofuel.
Unlike Thailand’s Energy for All initiative, Indonesia’s B-20 biodiesel mandate received overwhelmingly positive coverage, despite its potential environmental risks.
Meanwhile, despite being a renewable energy source, hydropower was not regarded as such during our time frame of interest, especially in Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, where it was blamed for multiple environmental and ecological issues downstream of major dams.
As reporter Trung Chanh in Vietnam explained, hydropower is not considered in the same category as solar and wind because “although hydro dams don’t cause pollution similarly to the way coal plants do, they destroy biodiversity, alter fish populations and sediment levels in water sources.”
To conclude, news outlets across the five Southeast Asian countries examined portrayed renewable energy, especially solar, as a lucrative investment for energy producers as well as consumers looking to benefit from new, fast-developing technology.
However, lacking were in-depth analyses of the role renewables can play in the future energy mix as more than an additive to fossil fuels. Roughly a fifth of the sampled articles about renewable energy in Vietnam started to broach bigger-picture issues such as redesigning the energy grid and energy market to accommodate renewable growth, though this type of farming was limited to solar energy.
Hydropower was often not regarded as renewable energy, while wind, geothermal, and biomass generally did not attract much coverage.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker. With a three years working experience, he has developed courses with the support of other Climate Tracker staff.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
If you have any questions, comments or want to get involved, email Zulker Naeen at naeenzulker@gmail.com – that’s me. I’d love to hear from you…and don’t worry, I’m locked inside too. And if you’ve been forwarded this email and liked what you saw, why not subscribe?
Everyone here feels these effects, as nine million Egyptians suffer from chest allergies and asthma, one-sixth of them are children, according to the Egyptian Thoracic Society.
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This week, we’d like to introduce Rahma Diaa,a freelance journalist from Egypt who has been reporting on the city’s biggest crisis – air pollution.
Good morning,
I am Rahma, writing from Cairo, where the daily cough has been a part of life well before COVID-19.
This isn’t just me saying it, last week the results of a 10-year study researching air pollution were released, with alarming results.
With more than a 1,000 scientists from 23 countries analyzing environmental challenges across the Mediterranean, they argued that the combination of weak vehicle emissions standards, dust, a lack of public transport and ever-increasing traffic emissions are causing alarmingly high levels of ozone and fine particle pollution.
This is particularly high in the biggest cities across the Middle East, like here in Cairo and Beirut, and it warns of the serious health consequences of air pollution.
Everyone here feels these effects, as nine million Egyptians suffer from chest allergies and asthma, one-sixth of them are children, according to the Egyptian Thoracic Society, and my daughter is one of these children. She has suffered from allergies since her
birth and needs to use medicated sprays throughout the year to control her cough.
The investigation used medical reports to highlight that chronic diseases such as allergies, asthma and even lung cancer are significantly higher in areas adjacent to cement factories that use coal.
While most of the world has shifted away from coal use in industrial processes, the Egyptian Cabinet authorized the use of coal in industrial operations as recently as 2014, even in areas close to residential communities.
As you can imagine, the government of Egypt is still trying to brand itself as “green” and is genuinely spending millions of dollars on clean energy projects, many of which are indirectly funded through loans.
In 2018, we also turned on one of the largest solar installations in the world, known as the Benban Solar Energy Complex. This has led the BBC to highlight Egypt as a renewable energy outliner in the region, through a recent report titled; “Are We Ready for the End of the Oil Age?. In it, they argued that increasing solar power is not only good for the environment but reduces our risk of resource conflicts that continue to plague the region.
However, a recent report in Nature Communications argued that climate change, in fact, decreases the efficacy of solar panels, as increased humidity could to more clouds in the future.
While we’re genuinely working hard to encourage international investment in renewable energy, it’s our crippling domestic governance that continues to fail Cairo’s people, including my daughter.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker. With a three years working experience, he has developed courses with the support of other Climate Tracker staff.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
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Japan’s threatened fields of green
Tea farmers in the Asian country have long enjoyed a very stable and predictable climate, but as global warming and Covid-19 upends that equilibrium, they respond with new ways to farm and sell their products.
If you have any questions, comments or want to get involved, email Zulker Naeen at naeenzulker@gmail.com – that’s me. I’d love to hear from you…and don’t worry, I’m locked inside too. And if you’ve been forwarded this email and liked what you saw, why not subscribe?
Tea farmers in the Asian country have long enjoyed a very stable and predictable climate, but as global warming and Covid-19 upends that equilibrium, they respond with new ways to farm and sell their products.
In Japan, spring is heralded as a time of new beginnings and opportunities. Tea farmers especially look forward to the spring harvest, the most exciting time of the year. But for Hiroki Aka, the love for farming lasts all year round.
“I feel the autumn harvest is equally important,” the tea farmer from d:matcha Kyoto shares, as we drive through the region’s winding roads. Almost 60% of the tea fields he manages are currently farmed with organic methods. “The quality of the leaves harvested in spring are heavily dependent on the way the trees are cut in autumn. Summer is the time to look out for pests, which especially love our organic tea trees. In winter, on the other hand, there is the worry of frost. It’s hard to predict.”
Officially recognised as one of the most beautiful villages in Japan, Wazuka is well known for its tea.
Against a backdrop of rolling green mountains adorned with tall cedar trees, rows and rows of Camellia Sinensis of varying hues of green trace the outline of the landscape. The conditions and climate of the region play a pivotal role in the high quality of tea the region produces. The soil is rich with nutrients, there is an adequate amount of rainfall, and the mountainous landscape creates a balanced natural irrigation system.
Climate woes
Traditionally, weather patterns in Wazuka have been stable. Rarely were there huge variations in temperature or rainfall. Year by year, however, climate change has slowly upended this rhythm. “Winter last year was warmer than usual, and this year’s tsuyu(Japan’s rainy season) was longer than previous years,” Hiroki contemplates out loud, his tone a mixture of excitement and frustration.
Echoing this, Bernard Soubry, a DPhil Candidate in Geography and Environment at the University of Oxford, says, “climate change will affect all farmers differently because farms and the places they tend are all different. We know, though, from existing climate models, that farming conditions will generally get way more difficult to predict.”
Soubry continues: “extreme weather events, like hurricanes or floods, will be more frequent; that can damage infrastructure and soil. Places that used to have regular rain may face long droughts or sudden downpours. Farmers will have to try to anticipate these, or roll with the punches when they come, which will make an already difficult profession far more difficult.”
The unpredictability of the weather has forced Hiroki to adjust his farming management plans weekly. Managing different cultivars (cultivated varieties) translates into having to anticipate different problems or pests that may arise within each field. Furthermore, as approximately 60% of the field he manages are organic, this rules out the use of pesticides or herbicides.
“Hmm, I’m not sure,” he laments in Japanese, as he carefully chews on the young shoots he’s plucked. “I feel like last year’s harvest might taste better but then again I’m just a beginner at tea farming, so I take things as they go,” he adds.
The global pandemic has also greatly impacted the purchasing cost of tea.
Over surplus orders made in anticipation of the now postponed 2020 Olympics and a significant drop in the number of tourists also meant fewer bulk orders from wholesalers.
“Supermarkets are remarkably slow to adopt IT to inform customers of what is available,” says John Ure, Director of Singapore based research company, TRPC. “An alternative is for farming cooperatives to develop their apps and to appear on e-shopping platforms, especially if they can offer something special such as organically grown foods or free-range products that are environmentally friendly.”
A resourceful bunch
Bernard Soubry has also noticed this trend: “farmers are infinitely resourceful and deeply committed to keeping their farms going, so it’s no surprise to find organic farmers changing their practices and the way they sell to adapt to climate change…They’re banking on diversity and adaptability in their cultures, rather than high-tech solutions which often come with a hefty financial and intellectual property price tag.”
Younger farmers such as Hiroki have since adopted this route of leveraging social media. Raising awareness of the difficulties farmers face has also been pivotal in gathering the necessary support needed to sustain organic farming methods. “There is a growing demand for organic produce. While we may not have the paper certifications at the moment, we still want to produce organic tea using traditional methods.” Hiroki explains with pride and confidence.
As trends go, the use of social media as a source of verification has also been mirrored by consumers themselves. “When deciding on products that I buy, usually it’s word of mouth rather than certifications.” Zsan Wong, a chef based in South Australia candidly says. “This comes down to there being so many different certifications. I think the hardest part is finding the line between sustainable and organic, the two do not always go hand in hand”.
Organic farming in times of climate change is akin to fighting with one hand tied behind their backs, but young farmers like Hiroki are still pressing forward. While there is still room for adequate policies to be enacted to assist food systems to adapt to climate change, the use of social media and technology have opened means of communication and information dissemination. All of which play equally important roles in meeting and overcoming future challenges.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker. With a three years working experience, he has developed courses with the support of other Climate Tracker staff.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
Brazil vows Biden won’t change environmental policy after 94,000 fires
Brazil vows Biden won’t change environmental policy. The number of fires in the Amazon this October was more than twice as many as last year.
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This week, we’d like to introduce MeghieRodrigues, a young science journalist from Brazil and a Board member of the Brazilian Network of Science Journalists and Communicators as she shares the latest update from the Burning Kingdom of Bolsonaro
Olá a todos e todas!
This is Meghie writing from long coronavirus confinement in São Paulo, Brazil. With more than 160,000 COVID-19 deaths, we are second only to the USA, and confinement still makes a lot of sense to me (though not to our president). Right now, however, a key debate is whether Brazilians will be open to an experimental mandatory vaccine.
On the climate and environment side, our minister of Environment, Ricardo Salles, has been working hard to “change rules and simplify [environmental] norms while the media only talks about COVID” as he suggested in a cabinet meeting in April.
By the end of September, Salles had approved a decision that reversed the protection of sandbanks and mangroves, opening these areas for exploration. Mangroves have been protected areas in Brazil since 1577, and are critical in countering coastal erosion as well as capturing carbon. It was only then thanks to a proactive lawsuit from the Sustainability Network, that the supreme court blocked the decision.
Meanwhile, both the Amazon and the Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland area, are still on fire. According to Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research (INPE), the number of fires in the Amazon this October was more than twice as many as last year. The Pantanal region has seen the most fires ever, with over 3,000 in the last month alone. More than a quarter of the Pantanal has turned into ashes.
The Pantanal usually attracts thousands of tourists every year searching for giant otters, jaguars, tapirs, hyacinth macaws and other endangered species.
This year, though, the fires (most of them likely to be illegally lit by ranchers) came at the end of an unusually long dry period – a clear effect of the changing climate in the region. This “turned the wetlands into a tinderbox and the fires raged out of control” as the New York Times recently reported.
For Indigenous communities in the area, this has been tragic. Estêvão Bororo described the fires to Mongabay earlier this October, stating that “it came very fast and even surrounded the homes. Even though the houses themselves didn’t catch fire, our leader had to be taken to Rondonópolis because he inhaled a lot of smoke. We have elderly people, pregnant women, new mothers and children here”.
Our presidency doesn’t seem to care.
Last year, smoke from the Amazon forest fires turned the day into the night here in São Paulo, leading to immediate response. This year, a succession of political scandals as well the unrestrained coronavirus crisis meant that it took at least four months before for the government to sent any help.
Amidst it all, however, it looks like most fellow Brazilians, from all regions and classes, do care about the Amazon. A recent national Datafolha poll found that nine in ten Brazilians think it’s important to preserve the Amazon to protect biodiversity. In addition, eight in ten Brazilians think it’s important to protect the Amazon and 70% of women consider the Amazon to be critical to the economy. Men were a little lower, at 59%, but I guess they’re only men, right?
This poll gave me a small sense of respite in what’s been a disparaging few years. I am not sure Bolsonaro is likely to listen to any evidence that doesn’t reinforce his worldview, and the only polls that really seem to matter to him are his hardcore Twitter and Whatsapp “fanbase”.
It might really take us a long time to recover from this collective nightmare we’ve sunk into, but it’s somewhat nice to imagine that even when we are so deeply divided as a nation, it seems that common sense still exists across Brazil.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker. With a three years working experience, he has developed courses with the support of other Climate Tracker staff.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
Communication for Development also referred to as Social and Behaviour Change Communication, is defined in UNICEF as “an evidence-based process that is an integral part of programmes and utilizes a mix of communication tools, channels and approaches to facilitate dialogue, participation and engagement with children, families, communities, networks for positive social and behaviour change in both development and humanitarian contexts.”
Social Ecological Model (SEM) UNICEF’s Communication for Development work continues to be guided by the Socio-Ecological Model (SEM).
The SEM is a theory-based framework for understanding the multifaceted and interactive effects of personal and environmental factors that determine behaviours, and for identifying behavioural and organizational leverage points and intermediaries for social and behavioural change within organizations. There are five nested, hierarchical and complementary levels of the SEM: individual, interpersonal, community, organizational, and policy/enabling environment (Figure 1). The most effective approaches use a combination of activities at all levels of the model.
What is Communication for Development
UNICEF’s application of the SEM as its analytical framework facilitates the use of social and behavioural data and evidence (such as Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices studies, real-time monitoring, opinion polls and social science research) to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate communication initiatives that help increase knowledge, understand and shift attitudes and norms, and facilitate positive behaviour and social change around issues that affect children’s and women’s overall well-being. C4D uses a combination of complementary and mutually reinforcing approaches including behaviour change communication, social change communication, social mobilization and advocacy.
Behaviour change communication (BCC) is the strategic use of communication to promote positive health, education and other outcomes. BCC is a theory-based, research-based, interactive process to develop tailored messages and approaches, using a variety of population-appropriate communication channels to motivate sustained individual- and community-level changes in knowledge, attitudes and behaviours.
Social change communication is a purposeful, iterative and usually participatory process of public and private dialogue, debate and negotiation that allows groups of individuals or communities to define their needs, identify their rights, and collaborate to transform the way their social system is organized, including the way power is distributed within social and political institutions.
Social mobilization is a continuous process that engages and motivates various inter-sectoral partners at national and local levels to raise awareness of, and demand for, a particular development objective. This approach focuses on people and communities as agents of their change emphasize community empowerment, and creates an enabling environment for change. Engagement is usually through the interpersonal communication (i.e., face-to-face dialogue) among partners and aimed at changing social norms and accountability structures; providing sustainable, multifaceted solutions to broad social problems, and creating demand and utilization of quality services.
Advocacy is an organized effort to inform and motivate leaders to create an enabling environment for achieving programme objectives and development goals. Advocacy promotes the development of new policies or changes to existing laws, helps redefine public perceptions, and influences funding decisions. Community-level advocacy provides a platform for voices of children and women, especially those from marginalized and excluded groups, to be heard.
What is Communication for Development?
In 1996 through General Assembly Resolution 51/172 the UN adopted a formal definition of Communication for Development:
‘Communication for development stresses the need to support two-way communication systems that enable dialogue and that allow communities to speak out, express their aspirations and concerns and participate in the decisions that relate to their development’.
Since other complementary definitions of C4D have been advanced by various development actors reflecting an increased understanding of the role of C4D in development processes.
In 2006 the World Congress on Communication for Development defined C4D as:
‘A social process based on dialogue using a broad range of tools and methods. It is also about seeking change at different levels including listening, building trust, sharing knowledge and skills, building policies, debating and learning for sustained and meaningful change’.
So, Communication for Development (C4D) enables people, particularly the most disadvantaged in society, to participate in shaping decisions that affect their lives. Communication for Development contrasts sharply with how communication is often understood within the broader development arena where it is commonly associated with enhancing the public profile of organisations and advocating on specific programme areas.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker. With a three years working experience, he has developed courses with the support of other Climate Tracker staff.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
Balachao Maker is a manufacturer of premium balachao in Bangladesh
Balachaw Maker is a premium quality shrimp balachaw manufacturer in the town. Those who love dried shrimp or prawn lovers, this is a piece of great news.
Especially, Balachaw is mainly a dried and spicy food, which made with fried onions, shrimp, garlic, ginger & red chillies.
So far, it is a Burmese hot relish, made of dried prawns or shrimps with plenty of garlic and chillies. It is preserved in an airtight jar for a long time. It is worth making a quantity.
This dry version of food has a good shelf life made of dried shrimps. Everything is crispy as there is no moisture whatsoever!
Keeping that tradition of this dish, Balachaw Maker made a fusion of dried ingredients and named it Shrimp Balachao.
It is a spicy dish with a lot of dry chillies. This dish is not only for the shrimp lover but also for the spice lover.
To enjoy the authentic Burmese taste, Shrimp Balachaw would be a great cooking ingredient for you.
That is why Balachaw Maker has brought a great fusion on Shrimp Balachaw, which is different from the regular Balachaw available at the super shop.
You can use this dried pickle to increase the taste of the regular dishes like Mixed Dal, Fried Rice, Khichuri, Noodles, Halim, Murighonto, Vegetable, etc.
The use of secret spices also added a great taste in it.
Balachaw Maker is a marketer of various home-processed brands and household names in Bangladesh.
With selective cooking ingredients, it becomes a companion on consumers’ everyday life.
Balachaw Maker is a manufacturer of premium balachao
We are the only spicy Balachaw manufacturer in Bangladesh. You might surprise hearing the name “Balachaw”. What is it?
Firstly, you have to know what is “Balachaw”. Then you will understand what we are making for your mouth.
Balachaw is a fusion of dried ingredients. It also contains processed shrimps, onion, garlic, red chilli, salt, cooking oil and the special masala.
This crispy cooking ingredient is not only for the shrimp lover but also for the spice lover.
Especially Burmese food lovers are mostly familiar with this food item.
However, Balacahw Maker made a great fusion on this food item, which is beyond the as usual taste of the Balachaw available at the super shop.
Made with freshly processed shrimps and best spices, it brings you the great taste in a convenient local packaging form to protect and preserve the excellent aroma.
Balachw Maker is a source of quality spice and cooking ingredients. It started its journey from July in 2019 to provide a variety of spice and cooking ingredients for the dedicated customer.
Balachaw Maker is the marketer of various cooking brands and household names in Bangladesh.
With selective cooking ingredients, it becomes a companion on consumers’ everyday life.
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Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker. With a three years working experience, he has developed courses with the support of other Climate Tracker staff.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
Balachao Maker is a premium quality shrimp balachao manufacturer in the town. Those who are shrimp lovers, this is a piece of great news.
Especially, Balachao is a popular dish in Chittagong. It is mainly a dried and spicy pickle, which made with fried onions, shrimp, garlic, ginger & red chillies. It is dry and crispy.
This dry version of food has a good shelf life made of dried shrimps. Everything is fried crisp as there is no moisture whatsoever!
Keeping that tradition of this dish, we made a fusion of dried ingredients, which contains processed shrimps, onion, garlic, red chilli, salt, cooking oil and the secret spices and named it Shrimp Balachao.
It is a spicy dish with a lot of dry chillies. This dish is not only for the shrimp lover but also for the spice lover.
To enjoy the authentic Thai taste, Shrimp Balachao would be a great cooking ingredient for you.
That is why Balachao Maker has brought a great fusion on Shrimp Balachao, which is different from the regular Balachao available at the super shop.
You can use this dried pickle to increase the taste of the regular dishes like Mixed Dal, Fried Rice, Khichuri, Noodles, Halim, Murighonto, Vegetable, etc.
The use of secret spices also added a great taste in it.
Balachao maker is a marketer of various home-processed brands and household names in Bangladesh.
With selective cooking ingredients, it becomes a companion on consumers’ everyday life.
Balachao Maker is a manufacturer of premium balachao
We are the only spicy Balachao manufacturer in Bangladesh. You might surprise hearing the name “Balachao”. What is it?
Firstly, you have to know what is “Balachao”. Then you will understand what we are making for your mouth.
Balachao is a fusion of dried ingredients. It also contains processed shrimps, onion, garlic, red chilli, salt, cooking oil and the special masala.
This crispy cooking ingredient is not only for the shrimp lover but also for the spice lover.
Especially Thai food lovers are mostly familiar with this food item.
However, Balacaho Maker is brought a great fusion on this food item, which is beyond the as usual taste of the Balachao available at the super shop.
Made with freshly processed shrimps and best spices, it brings you the great taste in a convenient local packaging form to protect and preserve the excellent aroma.
Balachao Maker is a source of quality spice and cooking ingredients. It started its journey from July in 2019 to provide a variety of spice and cooking ingredients for the dedicated customer.
Balachao Maker is the marketer of various home-processed brands and household names in Bangladesh.
With selective cooking ingredients, it becomes a companion on consumers’ everyday life.
If you are interested in business with Balachao Maker, mail to chaghorbd@gmail.com
Even you may follow our Facebook Page. You may dial 01673375594 to discuss details.
Balachao Maker is the largest homemade balachao manufacturer in Bangladesh delivering healthy and delicious food items to your doors. Our listed home kitchens prepare food hygienically and healthily only for you. Balachao Maker is passionate about homemade spicy and crispy food and cares about your time and health as well. Thus, it delivers a wide rage of handmade food whilst you busy at work, spending a memorable time with your family or even playing video games with your friends. Let Balachao Maker worry about your food and health.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker. He has three years of experience in the field. He has developed courses with the support of other Climate Tracker staff.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
Balachao Maker is a manufacturer of premium balachao in Bangladesh
Balachao Maker is a commercial balachao manufacturer in Bangladesh delivering healthy and delicious food items to your doors.
Balachao is mainly a dried and spicy pickle, which made with fried onions, shrimp, garlic, ginger & red chillies. It is dry and crispy.
This dry version of food has a good shelf life as it contains with dried shrimps and everything is fried crisp as there is no moisture whatsoever!
Keeping that tradition of this dish, we made a fusion of dried ingredients, which contains processed shrimps, onion, garlic, red chilli, salt, cooking oil and the secret spices and named it Masala Balachao.
It is a spicy dish with a lot of dry chillies. This dish is not only for the shrimp lover but also for the spice lover.
To enjoy the authentic Thai taste, Masala Balachao would be a great cooking ingredient for you.
That is why, Balachao maker has brought a great fusion on Masala Balachao, which is different from the regular Balachao available at the super shop.
You can use this dried pickle to increase the taste of the regular dishes like Mixed Dal, Fried Rice, Khichuri, Noodles, Halim, Murighonto, Vegetable, etc.
Balachao Maker is a marketer of various home-made brands and household names in Bangladesh. With selective cooking ingredients, it becomes a companion on consumers’ everyday life.
Balachao Maker is a manufacturer of premium balachao
We are the only spicy Balachao manufacturer in Bangladesh. You might surprise hearing the name “Balachao”. What is it?
Firstly, you have to know what is “Balachao”. Then you will understand what we are making for your mouth.
Balachao is a fusion of dried ingredients.
Masala Balachao contains processed shrimps, onion, garlic, red chilli, salt, cooking oil and the special masala.
This crispy cooking ingredient is not only for the shrimp lover but also for the spice lover.
Especially Thai food lovers are mostly familiar with this food item.
However, Balacaho Maker is brought a great fusion on this food item, which is beyond the as usual taste of the Balachao available at the super shop.
Made with freshly processed shrimps and best spices, it brings you the great taste in a convenient local packaging form to protect and preserve the excellent aroma.
Balachao Maker is a source of quality spice and cooking ingredients. It started its July in 2019 to provide a variety of spice and cooking ingredients for the dedicated customer.
Balachao Maker is the marketer of various home-made brands and household names in Bangladesh.
With selective cooking ingredients, it becomes a companion on consumers’ everyday life.
If you are interested in business with Balachao Maker, mail to chaghorbd@gmail.com
Even you may follow our Facebook Page. You may dial 01673375594 to discuss details.
Balachao Maker – Homemade Balachao Manufacturer
Balachao Maker is the largest balachao manufacturer in Bangladesh aims to deliver healthy and delicious food items to your doors. Our listed home kitchens prepare food hygienically and healthily only for you. Balachao Maker is passionate about spicy and crispy food and cares about your time and health as well. Thus, it delivers a wide rage of handmade food whilst you busy at work, spending a memorable time with your family or even playing video games with your friends. Let Balachao Maker worry about your food and health.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker. He has developed courses with the support of other experienced Climate Tracker staff credited on the course landing page.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
Balachao is a spicy-dried food for the spice lovers.
Balachao is a spicy-dried food for the spice lovers. Balachao is a popular dish, especially in Chittagong. It is mainly a dried and spicy pickle, which made with fried onions, shrimp, garlic, ginger and red chillies. It is dry and crispy.
This dry version of food has a good shelf life as it is made with dried shrimps and everything is fried crisp as there is no moisture whatsoever!
Keeping that tradition of this dish, we made a fusion of dried ingredients, which contains processed shrimps, onion, garlic, red chilli, salt, cooking oil and the secret spices and named it Masala Balachao.
It is a spicy dish with a lot of dry chillies. This dish is not only for the shrimp lover but also for the spice lover.
To enjoy the authentic Thai taste, Masala Balachao would be a great cooking ingredient for you.
That is why, Balachao maker has brought a great fusion on Masala Balachao, which is different from the regular Balachao available at the super shop.
You can use this dried pickle to increase the taste of the regular dishes like Mixed Dal, Fried Rice, Khichuri, Noodles, Halim, Murighonto, Vegetable, etc.
The use of home-made spices also added a great taste in it.
Masala Ghor is a marketer of various home-made brands and household names in Bangladesh.
With selective cooking ingredients, it becomes a companion on consumers’ everyday life.
Balachao Maker is a manufacturer of premium balachao in Bangladesh
Balachao Maker is a manufacturer of premium Balachao
We are the only spicy Balachao manufacturer in Bangladesh. You might surprise hearing the name “Balachao”. What is it?
Firstly, you have to know what is “Balachao”. Then you will understand what we are making for your mouth.
Balachao is a fusion of dried ingredients. It is now being manufactured by Balachao Maker in Dhaka.
Masala Balachao contains processed shrimps, onion, garlic, red chilli, salt, cooking oil and the special masala.
This crispy cooking ingredient is not only for the shrimp lover but also for the spice lover.
Especially Thai food lovers are mostly familiar with this food item.
However, Balacaho Maker is brought a great fusion on this food item, which is beyond the as usual taste of the Balachao available at the super shop.
Made with freshly processed shrimps and best spices, it brings you the great taste in a convenient local packaging form to protect and preserve the excellent aroma.
Balachaw Maker is a source of quality spice and cooking ingredients. It has started its July in 2019 to provide a variety of spice and cooking ingredients for the dedicated customer.
Balachaw Maker is the marketer of various home-made brands and household names in Bangladesh.
With selective cooking ingredients, it becomes a companion on consumers’ everyday life.
If you are interested in business with Balachaw Maker, mail to chaghorbd@gmail.com
Even you may follow our Facebook Page. You may dial 01673375594 to discuss details.
Balachaw Maker – Homemade Balachaw Manufacturer
Balachaw Maker is the largest homemade balachaw manufacturer in Bangladesh delivering healthy and delicious food items to your doors. Our listed home kitchens prepare food hygienically and healthily only for you. Balachaw Maker is passionate about homemade spicy and crispy food and cares about your time and health as well. Thus, it delivers a wide rage of handmade food whilst you busy at work, spending a memorable time with your family or even playing video games with your friends. Let this maker worry about your food and health.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker and freelance climate journalist from Bangladesh. He has three years of experience in the field. Zulker developed all his courses with the support of other experienced Climate Tracker staff credited on the course landing page.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
Balachao Maker is a manufacturer of premium balachao in Bangladesh
We are the only spicy Balachao manufacturer in Bangladesh. You might surprise hearing the name “Balachao”. What is it?
Firstly, you have to know what is “Balachao”. Then you will understand what we are making for your mouth.
Balachao is a fusion of dried ingredients. It is now being manufactured by Balachao Maker in Dhaka.
Masala Balachao contains processed shrimps, onion, garlic, red chilli, salt, cooking oil and the special masala.
This crispy cooking ingredient is not only for the shrimp lover but also for the spice lover.
Especially Thai food lovers are mostly familiar with this food item.
However, Balacaho Maker is brought a great fusion on this food item, which is beyond the as usual taste of the Balachao available at the super shop.
Made with freshly processed shrimps and best spices, it brings you the great taste in a convenient local packaging form which is designed to protect and preserve the excellent aroma and taste.
Balachao Maker is a source of quality spice and cooking ingredients. It has started its July in 2019 to provide a variety of spice and cooking ingredients for the dedicated customer.
Balachao Maker is the marketer of various home-made brands and household names in Bangladesh.
With selective cooking ingredients, it becomes a companion on consumers’ everyday life.
If you are interested in business with Balachao Maker, mail to chaghorbd@gmail.com
Even you may follow our Facebook Page. You may dial 01673375594 to discuss details.
Climate change to lose polar bear inhabitants by 2100
Polar bears will be disappeared by the end of the century unless more is done to stop climate change, a study forecast.
Scientists say some inhabitants have already reached their survival boundaries as the Arctic sea ice shrinks.
The carnivores depend on the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean to a quest for seals.
As the ice breakdowns, the animals are required to travel for long distances or on to shore, where they scuffle to find food and feed their cubs.
The bear has become the “poster child of climate change”, said Dr Peter Molnar of the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada.
“Polar bears are already sitting at the top of the world; if the ice goes, they have no place to go,” he said.
Polar bears are considered as vulnerable to extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), with climate change a vital reason in their decline.
Studies show that deteriorating sea ice is likely to decrease the number of polar bears, perhaps significantly.
By demonstrating the energy use of polar bears, the researchers were able to analyse their endurance limits.
Dr Steven Amstrup, a chief scientist of Polar Bears International, who was also involved in the study, told: “What we’ve shown is that, first, we’ll lose the survival of cubs, so cubs will be born but the females won’t have enough body fat to produce milk to bring them along through the ice-free season.
“Any of us know that we can only go without food for so long,” he added, “That’s a biological reality for all species”.
The scientists also think when these thresholds will be strained in different parts of the Arctic. This may have already occurred in some areas where polar bears live, they said.
“Showing how imminent the threat is for different polar bear populations is another reminder. We must act now to head off the worst of future problems faced by us all,” said Dr Amstrup.
“The way we’re on now is not a decent one, but if humanity gets its turn together, we have time to save polar bears. And if we do, we will help the rest of life on Earth, including ourselves”.
Under the status of high carbon emissions, it’s likely that all but a few polar bear populations will downfall by 2100, the study found. And even if reasonable emissions reduction targets are reached, several populations will disappear.
The findings match earlier forecasts that polar bears are likely to persist to 2100 only in a few populations very far north if climate change continues unabated.
Sea ice is freezing seawater that floats on the ocean surface, forming and melting with the polar seasons.
Some persevere year after year in the Arctic, providing a key environment for wildlife such as polar bears, seals, and walruses.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker and freelance climate journalist from Bangladesh. He has three years of experience in the field. Zulker developed all his courses with the support of other experienced Climate Tracker staff credited on the course landing page.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
According to that study, the tropics lost 11.9 million hectares of tree cover in 2019.
Nearly a third of that loss, 3.8 million hectares, occurred within humid tropical primary forests, areas of mature rainforest that are especially important for biodiversity and carbon storage. That’s the equivalent of losing a football pitch of primary forest every 6 seconds for the entire year.
Primary forest loss was 2.8% higher in 2019 than the previous year. In addition, it has remained obstinately soaring for the last two decades even with efforts to stop deforestation.
At least 1.8 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide emissions are connected with 2019 primary forest loss, comparable to the annual emissions of 400 million cars.
Though the rate of primary forest loss was lower in 2019 than record years of 2016 and 2017, it was still the third-highest since the turn of the century.
The study found, 3.8 million in older, primary forest areas – the third-highest loss of primary trees since 2000 and a slight increase in 2018.
“The level of forest loss in 2019 is intolerable and that we actually already know how to turn it around,” Frances Seymour, from the World Resources Institute, said.
“But if governments slow down restrictions on burning, that they intend to open up indigenous territories for commercial exploration, forest loss goes up.”
Brazil reported for a third of it, its worst loss in 13 years apart from huge spikes in 2016 and 2017 from fires.
However, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo both managed to reduce tree loss.
In the meantime, Australia got a six-fold rise in total tree loss, following dramatic wildfires late in 2019.
As well as storing massive amounts of carbon, primary, tropical rainforests, where trees can be hundreds or even thousands of years old, are home to species such as orangutans and tigers.
“We also noted several new hotspots of primary forest loss within indigenous territories, especially in the state of Pará that were linked to land grabbing and to mining,” said Mikaela Weisse, from Global Forest Watch.
“These incursions are specifically troublesome for the indigenous peoples have been some of the best conservers of forests in Brazil and around the world.”
Indonesia, so far, got losses to remain at historically low levels for the third consecutive years, thanks to its strong government action.
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Climate change predictions to determine the impact on tigers
The combination of climate change and sea-level rise will lead to the total loss of Bengal tiger habitats in the area.
However, important factors linked to this decline are rainfall in the summer season, vegetation (mangrove species) and maximum temperature of the warmest month.
The reason could be the control of Ceriops Decandra species of mangroves in this border stretch where salinity is relatively higher than the rest of the Sundarbans. Climate change would drive a tree species shift and also trigger extreme weather events adding to the effects of sea-level rise.
Health decline of Sundari trees in Sundarbans
However, there is no significant decline in the number of mangroves in the Sundarbans for the last 30 years. However, there is evidence of a 25% health decline of the mangrove trees. And, it is due to the effect of increased salinity on Sundari tree. But the continuing effects of climate change could critically hamper its ability to reborn.
Most significantly, the ‘top-dying disease’ is the reason for declining 15% of trees in the Sundarbans since the 80s.
The expert said, the increase of saline water is the key reason, and this is happening in the Sundarbans.
Unfavourably, the Sundari tree is less tolerant of high salinity levels than other mangrove species. It has previously been identified as suffering from die-back due to rising salinity.
Tiger conservation
The government of Bangladesh should prioritise tiger conservation by designating more areas for tiger conservation, create corridors for transboundary tiger movements.
The fate of the tiger will be the same in entire Sundarbans if the governments don’t take necessary action to conserve and allow more areas dedicated for tiger conservation. Transboundary conservation measures by the Bangladesh and Indian governments are urgent.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker and freelance climate journalist from Bangladesh. He has three years of experience in the field. Zulker developed all his courses with the support of other experienced Climate Tracker staff credited on the course landing page.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
Tiger population is at risk in Sundarbans. A total of 38 tigers died in the last 20 years in Bangladesh part of the Sundarbans. Last five months, two more tigers died of old age reasons in the Sundarbans.
Between 2001 and July 2020, altogether 38 tigers died, 22 in East Division and 16 in West Division of the Sundarbans.
However, last year, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, said the number of Royal Bengal Tiger in Bangladesh part of the Sundarbans increased to 114 from 106.
Some of the tigers died by poachers, some died in lynching, some passed away by the storm and tidal surge while some died of old age.
The latest Tiger Survey conducted in 2018 claims there were 114 tigers in the Sundarbans.
Climate change exposes Sundarbans tiger habitats
Royal Bengal tigers in the Bangladesh Sundarbans could be wiped off by 2070 because of both climate change and sea-level rise.
Researchers forecast a Ceriops-dominated mangrove stretch along the India-Bangladesh border would potentially be the last refuge of the big cats in the Sundarbans.
Bangladesh and Australian researchers have conducted this study. The journal Science of The Total Environment published it.
“Our studies show a rapid falling-off the Royal Bengal tiger population and suitable tiger habitats in the Bangladesh Sundarbans area by 2050,” said the corresponding author of the study, Sharif A. Mukul.
With more than 10,000 square kilometres of areas, the Sundarbans region of Bangladesh and India is the most critical area for Bengal tiger survival.
The latest census using camera traps has stated the number of tigers to be between 83 and 130 in the Bangladesh Sundarbans while in India side of the mangroves to be only 86.
“We found that climate change has a higher impact on Bengal tiger in Sundarbans rather than the sea level rise alone,” said Mukul, an assistant professor at Independent University, Bangladesh.
The study considered sea level rise as a consequence of climate change. The researchers examined suitable tiger habitats in the mangrove ecosystem where the tigers prefer to live. This space along the India and Bangladesh borders in the Sundarbans and is the site of Bangladesh’s Sundarban West Wildlife Sanctuary.
In Bangladesh Sundarbans, the three main wildlife sanctuaries are Sundarban West, South and East. These sanctuaries cover around 23 percent of the total Sundarbans reserved forest owned by the Bangladesh Forest Department.
The sanctuary of the Sundarbans has been increased from 139,700 hectares to 317,900 hectares among the total of 601,700 hectares forest area.
Considering this fact, it is inadequate. We know Sundarbans is the largest wild habitat of Bengal tigers and only place where tigers are adapted to live in mangrove ecosystems.
Climate change predictions to determine the impact on tigers
In both the scenarios, the combination of climate change and sea-level rise will lead to the total loss of Bengal tiger habitats in the area.
Important factors linked to this decline are rainfall in the summer season, vegetation (mangrove species) and maximum temperature of the warmest month.
The reason could be the control of Ceriops Decandra species of mangroves in this border stretch where salinity is relatively higher than the rest of the Sundarbans. Climate change would drive a tree species shift and also trigger extreme weather events adding to the effects of sea-level rise.
Health decline of Sundari trees in Sundarbans
However, there is no significant decline in the number of mangroves in the Sundarbans for the last 30 years. However, there is evidence of a 25% health decline of the mangrove trees. And, it is due to the effect of increased salinity on Sundari tree. But the continuing effects of climate change could critically hamper its ability to reborn.
Most significantly, the ‘top-dying disease’ is the reason for declining 15% of trees in the Sundarbans since the 80s.
The expert said, the increase of saline water is the key reason, and this is happening in the Sundarbans.
Unfavourably, the Sundari tree is less tolerant of high salinity levels than other mangrove species and has previously been identified as suffering from die-back due to rising salinity.
Tiger conservation
The government of Bangladesh should prioritise tiger conservation by designating more areas for tiger conservation, create corridors for transboundary tiger movements.
The fate of the tiger will be the same in entire Sundarbans if the governments don’t take necessary action to conserve and allow more areas dedicated for tiger conservation. Transboundary conservation measures by the Bangladesh and Indian governments are urgent.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker and freelance climate journalist from Bangladesh. He has three years of experience in the field. Zulker developed all his courses with the support of other experienced Climate Tracker staff credited on the course landing page.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
Within 50 years, the entire population of Bengal tigers in the Sundarbans mangroves in Bangladesh is likely to be lost to climate change and sea-level rise.
Royal Bengal tigers in the Bangladesh Sundarbans could be wiped off by 2070 because of both climate change and sea-level rise.
By 2050, researchers forecast a Ceriops-dominated mangrove stretch along the India-Bangladesh border would potentially be the last refuge of the big cats in the Sundarbans.
Transboundary conservation measures by the Bangladesh and Indian governments are urgent. Otherwise, the fate of the tiger will be the same in the entire Sundarbans, said, researchers.
This predict of Royal Bengal tigers wiped off by 2070 is by Bangladesh and Australian researchers who have conducted a modelling study.
Further, by 2050 researchers forecast that a Ceriops decandra-dominated mangrove stretch along the India-Bangladesh border would potentially be the only refuge of the big cats in the Sundarbans, underpinning the urgency of executing transboundary measures in conservation.
“Our studies show a rapid falling-off the Royal Bengal tiger population and suitable tiger habitats in the Bangladesh Sundarbans area by 2050,” said the corresponding author of the study, Sharif A. Mukul.
With more than 10,000 square kilometres of areas, the Sundarbans region of Bangladesh and India is the most critical area for Bengal tiger survival. The Bangladesh side of the forest covers nearly 60 percent of the total area of the Sundarbans.
The latest census using camera traps has stated the number of tigers to be between 83 and 130 in the Bangladesh Sundarbans while in India side of the mangroves to be only 86.
“We found that climate change has a higher impact on Bengal tiger in Sundarbans rather than the sea level rise alone,” said Mukul, an assistant professor at Independent University, Bangladesh.
The study considered sea level rise as a consequence of climate change. The researchers examined suitable tiger habitats in the mangrove ecosystem where the tigers prefer to live. This space along the India and Bangladesh borders in the Sundarbans and is the site of Bangladesh’s Sundarban West Wildlife Sanctuary.
In Bangladesh Sundarbans, the three main wildlife sanctuaries are Sundarban West, South and East. These sanctuaries cover around 23 percent of the total Sundarbans reserved forest owned by the Bangladesh Forest Department.
Considering this fact, it is inadequate. We know Sundarbans is the largest wild habitat of Bengal tigers and only place where tigers are adapted to live in mangrove ecosystems.
Climate change predictions to determine the impact on tigers
In both the scenarios, the combination of climate change and sea-level rise will lead to the total loss of Bengal tiger habitats in the area by 2070.
Important factors linked to the distribution of the big cats in the Sundarbans are rainfall in the summer season, vegetation (mangrove species) and maximum temperature of the warmest month.
We must also understand that the Sundarbans is a very dynamic system. So, the actual scenario could be better or worse than what we have predicted.
The reason could be the control of Ceriops decandra species of mangroves in this border stretch where salinity is relatively higher than the rest of the Sundarbans. Climate change would drive a tree species shift and also trigger extreme weather events adding to the effects of sea-level rise.
Climate change is likely to follow a similar path in the Indian Sundarbans and its counterpart in Bangladesh. Both sides are vulnerable to rising sea level.
The illegal poaching and human-tiger conflict are common on both sides of the Sundarbans.
Professor Bill Laurance of James Cook University in Australia, a co-author of the study emphasised on the new protected areas and reducing illegal poaching.
The government of Bangladesh ought to place tiger conservation by designating a lot of areas for tiger conservation, produce corridors for transboundary tiger movements. The authors have instructed to avoid unplanned development within the neighbourhood and lift public awareness to manage human-tiger conflicts with in the space, the authors recommend.
The fate of the tiger will be the same in entire Sundarbans if the governments don’t take necessary action to conserve and allow more areas dedicated for tiger conservation.
Climate Change and River salinity in coastal areas.
Climate change causes substantial changes in river salinity. Accordingly, it leads to the crisis of drinking water as well as the shortage of irrigation water.
Shortly, the changes in river salinity will unpleasantly affect the productivity of many capture fisheries. Negatively, it will affect the wild habitats of freshwater fish and giant prawns.
The health of Mangrove trees is declining.
A new study says the health of mangrove trees of the Sundarbans has significantly declined over the last 30 years due to salinity increase.
Consequently, the decline in health could critically hamper the ability to spring back. It makes it prone to unexpected climate-related hazards.
Also, the salinity increase in the water may induce a shift in the Sunderbans mangrove forest from Sundari to Gewa and Guran.
Accordingly, Bagerhat, Barguna, Barisal, Bhola, Khulna, Jhalokati, Pirojpur, and Satkhira districts will be most adversely affected.
Climate Change,Soil Salinity in Coastal Bangladesh.
Soon, the salinity level in the soil will surge in many areas of Barisal, Chittagong, and Khulna districts significantly. A study on the soil of the coastal regions of Bangladesh, the Soil Research Development Institute projects a median increase of 26% in salinity by 2050, with increases over 55% in the most affected areas.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker and freelance climate journalist from Bangladesh. He has three years of experience in the field. Zulker developed all his courses with the support of other experienced Climate Tracker staff credited on the course landing page.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
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Climate Change and River salinity in coastal areas.
Climate change causes substantial changes in river salinity. Accordingly, it leads to the crisis of drinking water as well as the shortage of irrigation water.
Shortly, the changes in river salinity will unpleasantly affect the productivity of many capture fisheries. Negatively, it will affect the wild habitats of freshwater fish and giant prawns.
The health of Mangrove trees is declining.
A new study says the health of mangrove trees of the Sundarbans has significantly declined over the last 30 years due to salinity increase.
Consequently, the decline in health could critically hamper the ability to spring back. It makes it prone to unexpected climate-related hazards.
Also, the salinity increase in the water may induce a shift in the Sunderbans mangrove forest from Sundari to Gewa and Guran.
Accordingly, Bagerhat, Barguna, Barisal, Bhola, Khulna, Jhalokati, Pirojpur, and Satkhira districts will be most adversely affected.
Climate Change,Soil Salinity in Coastal Bangladesh.
Soon, the salinity level in the soil will surge in many areas of Barisal, Chittagong, and Khulna districts significantly. A study on the soil of the coastal regions of Bangladesh, the Soil Research Development Institute projects a median increase of 26% in salinity by 2050, with increases over 55% in the most affected areas.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker and freelance climate journalist from Bangladesh. He has three years of experience in the field. Zulker developed all his courses with the support of other experienced Climate Tracker staff credited on the course landing page.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
climate change could devastate nearly all of Earth's coral reef habitats by 2100
New research says climate change could devastate nearly all of Earth’s coral reef habitats by 2100.
Among the existing, around 70-90% of coral reefs are likely to disappear in the next 20 years because of warming oceans, acidic water, and pollution, said scientists from the University of Hawaii Manoa.
They made their findings public on last Monday at an ocean sciences conference.
A few ecological activists and coral reef researchers have been working closely on the restoration of coral. They tried to grow live corals in a lab, and then put them back into aquatic environments to restore dying reefs.
But the researchers warned, this may not be adequate to save Earth’s coral reefs.
The new study made cluster on the ocean areas that would be best suited to this type of coral restoration. They also took into consideration factors like acidity, water temperature, human population density and fishing frequency.
After investigating the world’s oceans, they reached a serious remark: “By 2100, few to zero suitable coral habitats will remain.”
Unfortunately, existing ocean parts where coral reefs live today won’t be healthy by 2045. And, the circumstance of these environments is only likely to get worse by 2100, according to the team’s simulations.
Only a few sites will be viable for the restoration of a coral reef by 2100, like portions of Baja California and the Red Sea — even these aren’t suitable territories for reef because they’re close to rivers.
The researchers warned that human-made climate change was the big killer, a small part of the larger threat.
“Cleaning up the beaches and battling pollution are praiseworthy. But, we need to continue those efforts,” Setter said in that release.
Earlier, scientists warned that the world’s reefs are heading for “massive death” as ocean warming and acidification destroy entire swaths of reefs.
The Great Barrier Reef is a case for a large scale of “bleaching” events by above-average water temperatures in the last two decades.
Then, a drastic marine heatwave in 2016 and 2017 has destroyed about half of the corals on the Great Barrier Reef.
The Great Barrier Reef is such habitat for a diverse range of marine life.
Moreover, the extinction could cause ecological collapse as third of all sea species depend on reefs, experts warn.
Also, coral reefs protect the shorelines and coastal infrastructure.
In recent years, activists are in the quest of saving the reefs. Almost nothing will be unless we take drastic action on climate change.
Other reports
Climate Change and River salinity in coastal areas.
Climate change causes substantial changes in river salinity. Accordingly, it leads to the crisis of drinking water as well as the shortage of irrigation water.
Shortly, the changes in river salinity will unpleasantly affect the productivity of many capture fisheries. Negatively, it will affect the wild habitats of freshwater fish and giant prawns.
The health of Mangrove trees is declining.
A new study says the health of mangrove trees of the Sundarbans has significantly declined over the last 30 years due to salinity increase.
Consequently, the decline in health could critically hamper the ability to spring back. It makes it prone to unexpected climate-related hazards.
Also, the salinity increase in the water may induce a shift in the Sunderbans mangrove forest from Sundari to Gewa and Guran.
Accordingly, Bagerhat, Barguna, Barisal, Bhola, Khulna, Jhalokati, Pirojpur, and Satkhira districts will be most adversely affected.
Climate Change,Soil Salinity in Coastal Bangladesh.
Soon, the salinity level in the soil will surge in many areas of Barisal, Chittagong, and Khulna districts significantly. A study on the soil of the coastal regions of Bangladesh, the Soil Research Development Institute projects a median increase of 26% in salinity by 2050, with increases over 55% in the most affected areas.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker and freelance climate journalist from Bangladesh. He has three years of experience in the field. Zulker developed all his courses with the support of other experienced Climate Tracker staff credited on the course landing page.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
In the coastal areas of Bangladesh, salinity intrusion in soil may lead to a deteriorating yield by 15.6% of high-harvesting-variety rice and reduce the income of farmers expressively.
In the background of climate change, we know, the coastal population is more exposed to saltwater intrusion. These populations on the“frontline” of climate change because of the constant sea-level rise beyond 2100, even if greenhouse gas emissions remain stable today.
Therefore, Bangladesh must comprehend the potential impacts and begin planning to cope with them.
However, most research has focused on the long-run effects of the sea level rise and associated losses from heightened cyclone-induced surges.
So, we need to investigate the level of higher salinity from saltwater intrusion, and its impact on livelihoods and adaptation alternatives.
Already, they found the coastal area is facing problems from salinization. And, the situation is deteriorating.
Climate Change and River salinity in coastal areas.
Climate change causes substantial changes in river salinity. Accordingly, it leads to the crisis of drinking water as well as the shortage of irrigation water.
Shortly, the changes in river salinity will unpleasantly affect the productivity of many capture fisheries. Negatively, it will affect the wild habitats of freshwater fish and giant prawns.
The health of Mangrove trees is declining.
A new study says the health of mangrove trees of the Sundarbans has significantly declined over the last 30 years due to salinity increase.
Consequently, the decline in health could critically hamper the ability to spring back. It makes it prone to unexpected climate-related hazards.
Also, the salinity increase in the water may induce a shift in the Sunderbans mangrove forest from Sundari to Gewa and Guran.
Accordingly, Bagerhat, Barguna, Barisal, Bhola, Khulna, Jhalokati, Pirojpur, and Satkhira districts will be most adversely affected.
Climate Change, Soil Salinity in Coastal
Bangladesh.
Soon, the salinity level in the soil will surge in many areas of Barisal, Chittagong, and Khulna districts significantly. A study on the soil of the coastal regions of Bangladesh, the Soil Research Development Institute projects a median increase of 26% in salinity by 2050, with increases over 55% in the most affected areas.
Impacts on rice production due to climate change.
Accordingly, the climate-induced soil salinity is impacting on the output of high-harvesting-variety rice. As a result, the rice harvest is likely to decline by 15.6% in nine coastal unions, where the soil salinity will exceed around four decisions per meter by 2050.
Now, the farmers are earning less from rice production in several regions, along with the losses of 10.5% Barisal and 7.5 in Chittagong, earlier.
Consequently, many unions are suffering from significant yield losses and substantial price reductions from rising salinity.
Livelihoods are in threat in a changing climate.
Already, the salinity has turned the household status to the most harmful level. The poverty impact is striking one that the economic situation of a coastal household is in the bottom 20% rises six-fold, from 8% to 56%.
Therefore, the Bangladesh government is trying to cope up with the adverse effects of a changing climate. As we know, the country is one of the frontiers which is affected by climate change.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker and freelance climate journalist from Bangladesh. He has three years of experience in the field. Zulker developed all his courses with the support of other experienced Climate Tracker staff credited on the course landing page.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change. Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
Sundarbans can regenerate after the damage by cyclone Amphan
We know the Sundarbans has its capacity to regenerate. The damage after the Amphan is possible to recover like the recovery after the destruction by cyclone Bulbul.
The cyclonic storm Amphan has uprooted around 12,358 trees. So far, the forest department incurred losses in infrastructure worth Tk 21,500,000, according to a damage determination report of the forest department.
Garans were the victims of the cyclone, whilst the monetary value of all the broken trees is Tk1,010,000.
However, according to the forest department’s report, no wild animals were killed during the passing over of the cyclone.
Last year, the mangrove forest lost 4,589 trees because of the cyclone Bulbul. The forest department had to carry on an infrastructural loss up to Tk 62, 85,000 then.
Authorities ban cutting down of trees so that the forest could regenerate.
Md Bashirul Al Mamun, Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) of the Sundarbans West Zone, said: “Cutting down of all sorts of trees in this mangrove forest has been banned. Sundarbans has successfully regenerated after the attack of cyclone Bulbul. Similarly, it will happen in this case; we will only have to renovate our infrastructures.”
Even though instances of casualties has reported during two earlier storms in 2007 and 2009. A thousand people survived as the Sundarbans stood as a shield between the inhabitants of the coastal districts and the fierce winds.
However, the Sundarbans has saved Bangladesh again, which it has been doing for hundreds of years.
Similarly, this time, it took the blow of super-cyclone Amphan and protected us from severe devastation.
The Sundarbans is not only an ecosystem is torn, rather it is an unspoken “trouble-shooter” addressing our social challenges.
We were already overwhelmed by two of the main challenges—climate change and biodiversity loss. What is more, mangroves are such natural systems that can help us tackle both challenges.
As we continue facing a climate crisis and biodiversity loss in catastrophic proportions can be protecting the Sundarbans and nature, as a whole, be our priority now?
We may justify investing in the protection, restoration, and expansion of the mangroves. However, the return from preserving and restoring mangrove is ten times the investment.
Unfortunately, Sundari tree, the main mangrove species in the Sundarbans is becoming unhealthy gradually.
However, there is no significant decline in the number of mangroves in the Sundarbans for the last 30 years. However, there is evidence of a 25% health decline of the mangrove trees.
It is due to the effect of increased salinity and the continuing effects of climate change. These could critically hamper its ability to reborn.
A satellite-based data-driven study on world’s mangrove system brought new findings to say that the dreadful effects of climate change could severely hamper the growths of Sundari tree.
Around 1.44 million cubic meters of Sundari trees have been lost to “top-dying disease in the last 30 years,” experts said.
Top-dying disease among the Sundari, heart-rot disease among the Pashur, and dieback disease in the Kewara, are behind the trees’ rapid decline.
The expert said, the increases of saline water are the key reason, and this is happening in the Sundarbans.
Unfavourably, the Sundari tree is less tolerant of high salinity levels than another mangrove species.
“There is evidence of a decline in the health of about 25% of the mangrove trees,” said study author Katie Awty-Carroll of Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Wales.
Awty-Carroll and his team observed along with a 30-year time series of Landsat data of the entire Sundarbans.
However, it is hard to know the proper explanations behind this decline in mangrove health, the scientists think the long-term decline in mangrove health may be linked to the impacts of increased salinity on the Sundari tree.
Also, rising sea levels are increasing salinity, with adverse effects on the damage from severe cyclones mean that the defensive capacity of the Sundarbans could be reduced in future years.
This study also explored the damage of Sidr, which made landfall in Bangladesh in November 2007.
“We estimate that around 11% of the Sundarbans forest was damaged by Sidr, which is lower than other estimates,” said Awty-Carroll.
Meanwhile, this study also revealed that the effects of Sidr were still apparent more than 10 years after the cyclone made landfall.
Besides, the super-cyclone Amphan brought significant damage over the entire Sundarbans region.
Accordingly, this suggests that major cyclones could decrease the health of the mangroves for a long.
We know, Climate change has to lead to an increase in the salinity of the water and soil of the Sundarbans.
Earlier, it was a finding of 30ppm of salinity in the water—which declines the disease-prevention capacity of the trees.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker and freelance climate journalist from Bangladesh. He has three years of experience in the field. Zulker developed all his courses with the support of other experienced Climate Tracker staff credited on the course landing page.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change.
Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
Does Cyclone Amphan badly damages Sundarbans like Sidr?
Super cyclone Amphan battered West Bengal and Bangladesh’s coastal area and badly damaged parts of the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world, spread across India and Bangladesh.
The cyclone has already hit the coastal district of Khulna with strong winds and heavy rainfall.
Streets waterlogged, trees uprooted and houses damaged due to strong winds and heavy rain as Amphan crossed West Bengal-Bangladesh coast between Digha (West Bengal) and Hatiya Islands (Bangladesh) across Sunderbans.
The cyclonic storm Amphan has uprooted around 12,300 trees, mostly Garans, in the Bangladeshi part of the Sundarbans mangrove forest.
Vulnerable people were evacuated from the coastal and forest areas ahead of the cyclone. The fate of wild animals found in the Sundarban would have suffered the most in the aftermath of Cyclone Amphan.
However, the Sundarbans has saved Bangladesh again, which it has been doing for hundreds of years.
Similarly, this time, it took the blow of super-cyclone Amphan and protected us from severe devastation.
When it comes to saving people from coastal flooding, Bangladesh is one of the top three countries in the world getting the most benefit from its mangroves.
According to a recent study, a 20-km mangrove stretch could give more than USD 250 million-flood protection benefits a year. Can we only partly imagine the importance of the Sundarbans to Bangladesh?
The Sundarbans is not only an ecosystem is torn rather it is an unspoken “trouble-shooter” addressing our social challenges.
We were already overwhelmed by two of the main challenges—climate change and biodiversity loss. What is more, mangroves are such natural systems that can help us tackle both challenges.
As we continue facing a climate crisis and biodiversity loss in catastrophic proportions can be protecting the Sundarbans and nature, as a whole, be our priority now?
Like other countries with mangroves, Bangladesh is also enjoying tremendous benefits out of them.
Globally, mangroves give us USD 65 billion value of coastal flood protection each year. They yearly give us USD 50 billion non-market benefits from fisheries, forestry, and recreation.
We may justify investing in the protection, restoration, and expansion of the mangroves. However, the return from preserving and restoring mangrove is 10 times the investment. How would we value thousands of years of evolution of mangroves? What price can we put on a mangrove when it is the home of hundreds?
Unfortunately, Sundari tree, the main mangrove species in the Sundarbans is becoming unhealthy gradually.
However, there is no significant decline in the number of mangroves in the Sundarbans for the last 30 years. However, there is evidence of a 25% health decline of the mangrove trees.
It is due to the effect of increased salinity and the continuing effects of climate change. These could critically hamper its ability to reborn.
A satellite-based data-driven study on world’s mangrove system brought new findings to say that the dreadful effects of climate change could severely hamper the growths of Sundari tree.
Around 1.44 million cubic meters of Sundari trees have been lost to “top-dying disease in the last 30 years,” experts said.
Top-dying disease among the Sundari, heart-rot disease among the Pashur, and dieback disease in the Kewara, are behind the trees’ rapid decline.
The expert said, the increases of saline water are the key reason, and this is happening in the Sundarbans.
Unfavourably, the Sundari tree is less tolerant of high salinity levels than another mangrove species.
“There is evidence of a decline in the health of about 25% of the mangrove trees,” said study author Katie Awty-Carroll of Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Wales.
Awty-Carroll and his team observed along with a 30-year time series of Landsat data of the entire Sundarbans.
However, it is hard to know the proper explanations behind this decline in mangrove health, the scientists think the long-term decline in mangrove health may be linked to the impacts of increased salinity on the Sundari tree.
Also, rising sea levels are increasing salinity, with adverse effects on the damage from severe cyclones mean that the defensive capacity of the Sundarbans could be reduced in future years.
This study also explored the damage of Sidr, which made landfall in Bangladesh in November 2007.
“We estimate that around 11% of the Sundarbans forest was damaged by Sidr, which is lower than other estimates,” said Awty-Carroll.
Meanwhile, this study also revealed that the effects of Sidr were still apparent more than 10 years after the cyclone made landfall.
Besides, the super-cyclone Amphan brought significant damage over the entire Sundarbans region.
Accordingly, this suggests that major cyclones could decrease the health of the mangroves for a long.
We know, Climate change has to lead to an increase in the salinity of the water and soil of the Sundarbans.
Earlier, it was a finding of 30ppm of salinity in the water—which declines the disease-prevention capacity of the trees.
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker and freelance climate journalist from Bangladesh. He has three years of experience in the field. Zulker developed all his courses with the support of other experienced Climate Tracker staff credited on the course landing page.
As a young
climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share knowledge of climate change.
Climate
Tracker is a global media network closely works on Climate Change.
Climate Journalism Course is now affordable which is unbelievable too. Moreover, this course aims to enhance understanding of climate change impacts on biodiversity.
Fortunately, this online course is designed for passionate
writer and next journalists with limited experience engaging with issues on
climate change and ecosystem services interactions with biodiversity locally,
nationally and internationally.
The course participants assess the climate change-related issues relevant to available articles in biodiversity, identify the topics and then follow appropriate writing style.
Participants also
develop a writing skill to relate the human-climate fact within 1 to 2 months
after the training workshop.
Applicants to this training course need not demonstrate prior experience with journalism and how skills gained will be utilized after the workshop.
Communicating
Climate Change is to promote key knowledge on climate change issues and to
cover the most basic journalism skills – in the context of Bangladesh. We’re
particularly opening this extensive course to prepare the next climate
journalist.
You may not a
subject matter expert, but you will become familiar with the key concepts,
approaches, and climate journalism staples.
To promote Climate Journalism in Bangladesh, we’re particularly
opening this course on climate change to prepare the next journalist. With this
great objective, we are going to run a three-month campaign to introduce this
course among students with an extensive collaboration of the interested
partners.
Moreover, this
campaign aims to teach students between graduate and post-graduate. That is
why; we are emphasizing their pattern of seeking information, also to influence
them to enrol this course by ensuring their active participation.
A social media
campaign will run to promote this course. University faculty, expert,
practitioners, and journalist will engage with this initiative.
Why climate journalism is facing difficulties in
Bangladesh?
The knowledge of
climate change among University students is relatively insignificant in
Bangladesh, that understanding is making them less interested. This is why we
are focusing on 20-25 years aged university students, the key audience, also
the future leader of the nation to keep an active role in society. We better
know, their pattern of seeking information is through educational institutes,
teachers, and social media platforms.
Finally, our
objective is to influence 100 students of 20-25-year-old age throughout the
nation to enrol this course for their future between 1 June and 31 August 2020.
Participants will
enrol in this online course with a registration fee. After finishing the course
materials, the participants will have to join in the online quiz or complete
the assignment. Finally, the participants will get the certificate. This course
will start from 20th June 2020.
Key objectives of this course:
To give basic knowledge on climate change issues
To guide the participants on key climate journalism topics
To launch a certification process for participants who wish to publish an article as a trainee journalist.
A summary of this curriculum—
Learning: Climate Change Issues in the context of Bangladesh
Zulker Naeen is a South Asia Fellow at Climate Tracker and freelance climate journalist from Bangladesh. He has three years of experience in the field. Zulker developed all his courses with the support of other experienced Climate Tracker staff credited on the course landing page.
As a young climate advocate, his fellowship aims to share
knowledge of climate change.
Climate Tracker is a global media network closely works on
Climate Change.
Communicating Climate: A Climate Change Journalism Workshop is to promote key knowledge on climate change issues and to cover the most basic journalism skills – pitching, fact-finding, interviewing, data visualization, and more – in the context of Bangladesh.
Key
objectives of this course:
To give basic knowledge on climate change issues
To guide the participants on key climate journalism topics
To launch a certification process for participants who wish to publish an article as a trainee journalist.
A
summary of this curriculum—
Learning: Climate Change Issues in the context of Bangladesh
Skills Development: Climate Journalism
Staples
Content Training: Making the
Climate-human Link
Evaluation: Online Exam
Reward: Certification
What the participants
will learn
Basic Knowledge on
Climate Change
Climate Change Issues
Climate and Health
Climate Change and its
impact on Bangladesh
Climate Journalism
Training
Climate Change Communication
in Social Media
Is
there any course prerequisites?
There is no course prerequisite.
Climate Journalism in Bangladesh
As a campaigner of Climate Journalism in Bangladesh, we’re particularly opening a course on climate change to prepare the next journalist. With this great objective, we are going to run a three-month campaign to introduce this course among students with an extensive collaboration of the interested partners.
This campaign is designed to reach the
students between graduate and post-graduate emphasizing their pattern of
seeking information, also to influence them to enrol this course by ensuring
their active participation.
A social media campaign is going to be
developed to promote this course. University faculty, expert, practitioners,
and journalist will engage with this initiative. Students will partake in the
online course by a registration process. After the complication of the course
materials, the participants have to join in the online quiz.
Finally, this initiative will award the
winners with a certificate.
#Context
The knowledge of climate change among
University students is relatively insignificant in Bangladesh, that
understanding is making them less interested.
20-25 years aged university students,
the key audience, also the future leader of the nation to keep an active role
in society. Their pattern of seeking information is through educational
institutes, teachers, and social media platforms.
# Communication Objective
To influence 100 students of
20-25-year-old age throughout the nation to enrol this course for their future
between 1 June and 31 August 2020.
#Strategies
Course Development: To
develop an easygoing course for the student.
Online Contest: To
arrange an online contest to offer the course.
Video: To
make a few online sessions on the mandatory topic.
Digital Campaign: To
design a complete digital campaign plan for all social media platforms.
Awards: To
award certificate for the winners.
Participatory gifts: To engage co-sponsors to offer various gifts for the standard participants.
#Course Module
Section 1 | Introduction
#Introduction
to the overall course
It will try to explain to the participants why climate change topics are easier to understand with our course.
Wildfires, cyclones,
and infectious diseases are the key topics for participants to understand how
to highlight the human-interest
story behind climate change.
Section 4 | Climate and Health
#Health
challenges and Climate Adaptation
It will introduce the health challenges, as well as the opportunities, that can be associated with climate change. In addition, it will give you a brief idea on Adaptation: Minimizing climate risks to health, building resilience against climate effects, building climate-resilient health systems, and health response to climate change.
Section 5 | Climate Change and its
impact on Bangladesh
#Existing
climate challenges in Bangladesh
It will introduce the existing challenges associated with climate change in Bangladesh
Section 6 | A to Z of Climate Journalism
Know-How’s
#How
to write as a Climate Journalist
It will inspire the participants to be a
climate journalist. Participants will learn how to effectively pitch a story to
the editors about climate.
Also, they will find the important facts, time-sensitive, identifiable characters, the central conflict, and the identifiable theme. Moreover, they will learn how to searching for sources. In addition, they will learn how to ask questions for the Interview. Again, this section will also try to learn two-three tools on how they better know data visualization.
Section 7 | Climate Topics for writings
#Explanation:
Few articles related to climate change
It will explain 10 published articles on climate issues covered by the Climate Journalist.
Section 8 | Climate Change Communication
in Social Media
Writing strategic insight is crucial for every business; however, a set of questions may ease that analytical task.
Moreover, a communication practitioner may help your internal analyst team to design a rigorous form to acquire the real picture.
A company always tries to build a distinct competitive advantage to grow more and to be profitable over the long term. A very few have a clear idea of what that really means. The various language of strategy creates confusion among them, as they are not oriented with the technical details of analytical tools.
We would like to tell them to draw three circles.
Those circles, positioned in the proper relationship to one another, provide an excellent visual representation of what strategy—both internal and external—means.
Hundreds of leaders have accepted this strategy concept by using this simple tool. They take it back to their organizations, where it often becomes part of the decision-making process.
Let’s try this exercise by engaging an executive team. First, the team should think intensely about what customers value and why. Identifying deeper values can ease the decision-making process and create new opportunities for value creation. The first circle thus signifies the team’s consensus on most valuable customers or customers’ needs.
Company’s Offerings, Customers’ Needs.
The second circle represents the team’s view of how customers accept the company’s offerings. Here, the two circles overlap indicates how well the company’s offerings are meeting customers’ needs.
Even in mature industries, customers get a chance to express their needs or problems in conversations with companies. Very Often, the customers’ unexpressed problems turn into growth opportunities.
The third circle represents the team’s view of how customers perceive the competitors’ offerings.
The Covid-19 pandemic is still making its way around the
world, and it will remain a few more times before it’s over. However, at the
early stage, we get some lessons on how to take preparation to deal with the
future problem of climate change impacts soon after it.
Significantly, the Covid-19 virus outbreak has more to do
with how we have neglected our ecosystems rather than because of human-induced
climate change.
Today, it proves the coexistence of this pandemic and
climate change.
The first lesson is about when to take action when faced
with a future problem. Leaders tend to wait for the problem to occur before
taking action, despite having warning by scientists earlier about the imminence
of the problem. Even at this early stage, it is clear that initial responses to
be better prepared for the problem before it occurs is much more effective.
However, it means our leaders don’t accept what the
scientists warn them earlier and asked for policies that may seem too much
then, and it was a warning even before the problem arises. However, as we know
now, it is better to overreact before the problem arises so that the problem
can put under control before the problem becomes a crisis.
Waiting for the problem to manifest itself may lead many
lives to lose unnecessarily. This is what is now playing out in Italy and
Spain. It may lead to this similar case in the United States and the United
Kingdom too. Let’s hope this not happens in Bangladesh.
In the second lesson, we couldn’t stop the entry of foreign
migrants. Of course, we can try to do so, and somehow it may even delay this
problem.
Equally, indeed, we can only try to protect ourselves at the
personal and household level. Still, if others get start affecting around us,
then we will also be its victim sooner or later.
The success of tackling the pandemic in Taiwan, Singapore,
and South Korea, has already shown how collective action from everyone in the
country, together with proactive leaders, can overcome the challenges.
The third lesson is one end of the scale.
Even though the Covid-19 pandemic seems a devastating one now, its impacts will pale in comparison with the potential effects of climate change, which are yet to come.
Hence, the early action to prevent the worst impacts,
including adaptation as well as mitigation, must keep in consideration by all
if we hope to minimize the adverse effects.
Every action by individuals or any bodies will count towards
reducing the inevitable damage from climate change that is yet to come.
The fourth lesson drives us to look at our economical costs
and behavioral changes.
Here, there are indeed a couple of positive lessons. Almost
all people in an entire country are now ready to change their behavior quite
drastically if they have to. It is a hopeful sign going forward.
On the economic front, there has already been a widespread
disruption of the global economy. Still, some unintended benefits include a
significant reduction in air pollution as well as greenhouse gases.
While such economic disruption is not desirable and we will
recover from it soon, it is worth thinking about whether the recovery is
possible in a much more eco-friendly manner.
The final lesson has to do with the inevitable economic chaos and recession that is starting to happen already and will get a lot worse before it gets better.
Bangladesh is likely to see significant negative impacts on
manufacturing, exports, and possibly even our food production going forward.
Even the worst is yet to come. Moreover, we must take preparation for the
immediate economic downturn as well as think about the future path to recovery
once the worst is over.
It applies to the global economy and the silver lining in this Covid-19 pandemic, which is most relevant for tackling climate change.
Equally, it is an opportunity to rebuild the post-pandemic
economy as a green one that doesn’t allow the destruction of nature. Let us
hope that all global leaders are up to the challenge.
Zulker Naeen, as a profile supervisor of “Bangladesh Lube Market”, gives the current info via an industry-leading paper database.
Any person active in business requires unrelenting expertise as well as information in the type of market understandings.
The special records are a vital argumentation as well as a
decision-making resource for suppliers, financiers, and anyone thinking about
developments of the expanding lube market.
Moreover, it supplies an in-depth independent assessment of the ended up industrial and also auto lubricating substances market.
Also, it recognizes market chances and challenges for lube providers, additive providers, and also base stock manufacturers.
Existing reporting designs are now out of the ark. Existing
reports speak a lot more, provide the least insights. From their articles, it’s
unusual to get a real-time photo over the marketplace.
That is why the profile of “Bangladesh Lube
Market” frequently argues with the records by the papers.
Here is Zulker Naeen. This identification is neither a specific observer neither an author. Instead, it is a portfolio on Bangladesh Lube Market Database.
This portfolio exclusively releases observant records on this market.
It has actually currently consisted of more than 100 write-ups.
Lately, the successive report determined the growth of
“Bangladesh Lube Market” which is a rapid one.
Earlier, this portfolio highlighted the growth of this market.
Its research-oriented facts have actually made it a mouthpiece of this trade for the last four years.
Those who rely on market understandings are interacting with this portfolio.
It has actually functioned as an advocate of a couple of
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When carbon dioxide combines with seawater, it produces carbonic acid which increases the acidity of the water. And, it is happening for many years and causes uneven ocean ecosystems.
Since the thriving industrial revolution, the betting on fossil fuels has caused an excessive release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. And, it is being absorbed by our earth’s oceans.
In the
seawater, chemical reactions occur with carbon dioxide that lowers seawater pH,
reduces carbonate concentration, and reduces saturation states of biologically
important calcium carbonate materials.
Consequently,
the ocean’s
chemistry becomes more acidic, carbonate ions face difficultly to form. The
carbonate ions are used by marine creatures, for synthesize their calcium carbonate
shells
and skeletons.
As the pH of
the ocean
changes, the ocean becomes unconcentrated with these minerals, which
affects the creatures to maintain their shells.
Since the
growth of industries, the pH balance of ocean waters has dropped by 0.1 pH
units, equivalent to a 30% increase of water acidity.
The acidity has never dropped down below 0.6 units since the last 300 million years. This is likely to increase more if we continue to burn fossil fuels frequently.
Ocean acidification and the harsh reality of the marine ecosystem
Right now,
the ocean is on pace to become 150% more acidic by 2100. And this ocean
acidification is an unswerving consequence of human-made carbon emissions.
Humans’ continual release of carbon monoxide into the atmosphere has led to ocean acidification.
This process
has to lead to the destruction of many marine ecosystems and the plants. One of
the most beautiful occurrences in nature — the
coral reefs — are dying.
Coral reefs
used to be a massive hub of life and colour underneath the water hosting a
plethora of organisms within. Now many are bleached white due to higher water temperatures
and have sustained damage to their structure due to increased acidification.
Coral
bleaching occurs in which corals lose their colour due to extrinsic factors
such as pH (being too acidic) and increasing temperature exposure.
The consequences
of ocean acidification are not limited to marine life. We have been
inexplicably connected to the ocean, we have utilized it for recreation,
transportation, medicine, and most importantly food.
It is
estimated, we consume approximately 1.5 billion fish each year. A decline in
fish availability could have severe economic and social implications for us.
How can we ensure the reversal of this issue?
A most effective measure to combat this problem is to decrease carbon pollution.
Other
solutions have been proposed to slow the acidification process or protect their
environments — mainly coral reefs.
Although,
these are mostly bandaged solutions unable to recover the situation.
Unfortunately, reducing carbon pollution is a challenge because it involves
many factors.
Individuals can act their roles to limit their carbon footprint. Reducing your carbon pollution is simple if you unplug the appliances after use.
Many
websites may help you to calculate your unique carbon footprint and offer easy
solutions to help bring that number down.
The individual effort is not insignificant at all. A collective effort may potentially make a great impact.
It is high
time; we work together to reduce pollution or acquire new technologies that can
reduce the world’s current carbon footprints.
Water Acidification and the harsh reality of the ocean chemistry
Marine life mostly depends on the ocean chemistry staying somewhat constant are coral reefs.
So, these organisms create their life from calcium carbonate and will eventually house other organisms within their anatomy.
Extreme acidification may decrease coral growth by corroding pre-existing coral skeletons; simultaneously slowing the growth of new ones.
Now, the weaker reefs are more vulnerable to corrosion. Besides, larvae that inhabit the coral to reproduce may find the acidification too harmful, preventing them from reaching adulthood.
Other species oysters, mussels, urchins and fish are affected by acidification. Also, this ocean acidification plays a crucial role in the development of an organism’s shells. Which affects their overall lifespan.
These
shellfish cause 25% of less development of their shells. It is becoming thinner
and brittle. Without their only source of protection, this can make them more
vulnerable to the harsh reality of the ocean.
Plankton is the procedure of marine spices and the catalyst of the food chain.
Also, Phytoplankton and zooplankton possess calcium carbonate bodies which eventually leads their species to endanger.
Sea urchins
face the faster dissolve of their spiny exoskeletons due to the calcite calcium
carbonate chemistry — unlike their aragonite calcium carbonate friends, such as
coral and starfish.
Still, the fish are detrimentally affected by the effects of ocean acidification. More explicitly, studies have shown that clownfish lose their hearing in more acidic water. Most importantly, the fish are more vulnerable to predation and communication among the species is hindered.
Ocean acidification may alter the ecosystems of millions of years.
Also, it has the influence to contaminate shellfish that humans consume. Changes are a must to preserve our marine ecosystems to prevent the extinction of wildlife.
Right now, the ocean is on pace to become 150% more acidic by 2100. And this ocean acidification is an unswerving consequence of human-made carbon emissions. Now, it is up to us to take action before large ocean ecosystems are interrupted.
Ocean acidification and disruption of marine ecosystems
Since the
thriving industrial revolution, the betting on fossil fuels has caused an
excessive release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. And, it is being
absorbed by our earth’s oceans.
When carbon dioxide combines with seawater, it produces carbonic acid which increases the acidity of the water. Therefore, it is happening for many years and causes uneven ocean ecosystems.
In the seawater, chemical reactions occur with carbon dioxide that lowers seawater pH. Accordingly, it reduces carbonate concentration and reduces saturation states of biologically important calcium carbonate materials.
Consequently, the ocean’s chemistry becomes more acidic, carbonate ions face difficultly to form. The carbonate ions are used by marine creatures, for synthesize their calcium carbonate shells and skeletons.
As the pH of
the ocean changes, the ocean becomes unconcentrated with these minerals, which
affects the creatures to maintain their shells.
Growing rice in the ocean seems odd. Nevertheless, ocean agriculture is a rising form of food production with real potential.
Unfortunately, less than 1% of fresh water is available for human-purpose, and 70% of that is being used for agriculture worldwide.
Growing demand for food and the rise of the population are pushing researchers to search for new areas where agriculture has never reached there before.
One crop taking to the sea is rice. A company led by two 24-year-old scientists aim to grow salt-tolerant rice and floating ocean farms by 2021. As a part of this project, this team is expected to make small pilot farms by the end of 2020.
Currently, around 7.7 billion people are
living on the planet. Also, an expected 2 billion more will
join the lines by 2050. So, ensuring enough food for all is important. That is
why; some companies are finding solutions to ecological problems, such as
sea-level rise, through scientific advancement.
Most of the water used in agriculture
is for irrigation, and rice is one of the most water-concentrated crops, also
widely consumed grain worldwide.
Around 90% of total rice production is
in Asia alone. Around 3.5 billion people rely on rice every day. So, people
have long been interested in manipulating rice genes to achieve certain goals.
Manipulating the rice genome is not a new task. The Golden Rice Project started in 1999, was to address the widespread vitamin A deficiency, and causing blindness in many rice staple countries.
AgriSea is captivating a new approach to food science.
They want to grow rice in the ocean by using gene-editing, which would intensify the phrase of genes available in rice that control salt-tolerance.
Salt-tolerant rice could be grown in
salty ocean water without the use of soil, fertilizer or freshwater.
Also, they have identified the genes
that control for salt expulsion, cellular insulation and DNA protection, and
are enhancing the expression of those genes.
“Together these genes act in a
network, just like they do in nature,” Luke Young, CEO and co-founder of
Agrisea said.
“We just encourage them along the
pathways that nature has formed in plants that can thrive in a salty
environment.” The co-founders explained that they could use repeated selective breeding
in rice to get the same result, but gene-editing just speeds up the process.
The first step in the process was to
create a portfolio of salt-resistant crops that will eventually grow in
floating ocean farms around the world.
AgriSea is already in discussion with
major rice-producing countries; Nigeria, China, Vietnam and Bangladesh, as well
as New Zealand, the USA, Japan and Chile, to establish these floating ocean
farms.
Also, the company plans to have their
first small pilot farms in the water by the end of 2020, they expect to have
multiple larger pilot farms in the ocean by the end of 2021.
Can coral reefs live climate change and a warming ocean
It’s no undisclosed that coral reefs are in danger. Scientists predict that almost all of the earth’s reefs will be endangered by 2050 if existing levels of greenhouse gas emissions remain.
The changes are now happening: Three-quarters of coral reefs are now exposed to man-made problems.
Climate
change, definitely, is one of the main crosiers. It makes oceans warmer and
more acidic, failing the calcium carbonate that systems a coral’s skeleton.
Temperature variations can cause corals to emit the symbiotic algae that live inside their tissues, where they provide vital nutrients and also give corals their lively hues.
This effect, known as “coral bleaching,” clarifies why unhealthy corals turn a spectral shade of white.
Subsequently, in an ever-warming
world, are corals – and the marine ecosystems and coastal communities they
support – completely downhearted? Maybe not.
A new study of more than 2,500 coral reefs in the Indian and Pacific oceans found that most of the reefs had been damaged by previous mass bleaching events, but not beyond repair.
Another 17% had minimal bleaching between 2014-2017 and were
healthy and thriving.
“The good news is that functioning coral reefs still exist, and
our study shows that it is not too late to save them,” said Dr Emily Darling, the lead author of the study
and the head of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s global coral reef
monitoring program.
The study, which appears in the journal “Nature Ecology and Evolution,” was supported in part by Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Vibrant Oceans Initiative.
More than 80 marine scientists contributed to the study and suggested three strategies for managing coral populations.
There needs to be global action to mitigate the effects of climate change, as well as an intervention on a smaller, local scale, according to the study’s authors.
As Dr Georgina Gurney of James
Cook University explains, “While coral reef sustainability depends largely on
reducing carbon emissions, identifying reefs that are likely to respond – to
build the well-being of the millions of people dependent on coral reefs across
the globe.”
But
sometimes the healthy corals are the ones that could use our protection the
most. After all, it’s easier to prevent future harm than it is to deal with the
consequences of neglect.
When coral reefs are properly managed and endangered, a square kilometre of the tropical reef can produce 15 tons of seafood per year.
There are financial paybacks at stake, too. According to a White House climate report from last year, the U.S. is likely to lose $140 billion by 2100 as climate change causes destruction on coral reef recreational activities.
But
as the Indo-Pacific reef study demonstrates, it doesn’t have to end badly.
Decisive global action, coupled with protective measures on a local level, can
ensure that corals have a bright and vibrant future in our oceans.
“Around 70-90% of coral reefs are likely to disappear in the
next 20 years because of warming oceans, acidic water, and pollution, said
scientists from the University of Hawaii Manoa.
Still, a few ecological activists and coral reef researchers are working closely on the restoration of coral.
Also, they have tried to grow live corals in a lab. Then they put them back into aquatic environments to restore dying reefs.
But these initiatives are not adequate to save Earth’s coral reefs.
The new study made ocean demography that would suit this kind of coral restoration. Factors like acidity, water temperature, human population density and fishing frequency were in consideration while making this demography.
Unfortunately, existing ocean parts where coral reefs live today won’t be healthy by 2045.
Only a few sites will be viable for the restoration of a coral reef by 2100, like portions of Baja California and the Red Sea — even these aren’t suitable territories for reef because they’re close to rivers.
Cleaning up the beaches and battling pollution are praiseworthy. But we need to continue those efforts.
But tackling climate change is really what we need to be advocating for shielding corals.
Australia's fires must teach us investment in innovation
Sanders’ radical climate policies are not the quickest way to address climate change, said Bjorn Lomborg, a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Australia’s fires must teach us investment in innovation is the most impactful strategy.
Scenes of devastation from Australia’s fires have been heart-breaking. How do we quit this suffering? For several advocates and also politicians like Bernie Sanders, the solution is specific: drastic environment plans. When we take a look at the proof, this basic response falls short.
Australia is the world’s most fire-prone continent, according to 2018 clinical study published in the journal Global Change Biology.
A 2005 research study in the same journal shows that in 1900, 11% of its surface area shed each year. These days, some 5% of the nation burns yearly.
By the end of the century, if we do not stop climate change, higher temperature levels, will likely suggest a 0.7 portion factor increase in charred location,
It is according to the Environmental Research Letters in 2014, a boost from 5.3% of Australia to 6%.
This boost is not trivial, as well as it is an argument for reliable environment adjustment activity.
By far the most impactful, practical policy is a remarkable rise in investment in reduced- and zero-carbon power technology.
That’s because solar and wind power will certainly be neither cheap adequate nor effective adequate to change fossil fuels.
Today, International Energy Agency numbers reveal that solar as well as wind comprise just 1.1% of international energy use, and the IEA estimates that also after we spend $3 trillion even more on aids, they will not reach 5% by 2040.
Technology is required to reduce the price of green energy, with research for Copenhagen Consensus showing environment-friendly research and development to be one of the most cost-effective environment plans.
We need to find developments for batteries, nuclear, carbon capture as well as a myriad of other encouraging technologies. Innovation can address our climate challenge.
Sadly, several reports on Australia’s fires have made use of the carnage to press a particular schedule, hang on three suggestions.
That wildfire is even worse than ever, that this is triggered by international warming. And that the only service is for political leaders to make even bigger carbon cut promises.
Globally, a wildfire burns much less land than it utilized to, according to a 2016 Royal Society research study.
Given that 1900, worldwide burned location has reduced by greater than one-third, as a result of agriculture, fire reductions and also woodland monitoring. In the satellite age, both NASA and other groups document significant reductions.
What Satellite reveals
Surprisingly, this reduction is even real for Australia. Satellites reveal that from 1997-2018 the burned location decreased by one-third. Australia’s current fire period has seen much less area melted than previous years.
The Guardian newspaper reports that approximately, a wildfire burned 19.4 million hectares in Australia. It was about half the ordinary burn over the comparable period of 37 million hectares in the satellite document.
When the media recommends Australia’s, fires are “extraordinary in range,” they are incorrect.
Australia’s scorched location decreased by
more than a third 1900-2000 and has decreased over the satellite duration.
This fire period at the time of writing, 2.5% of Australia’s area has burned contrasted to the last 10 years’ 4.8% average by this point.
What is various this year is that fires have actually mainly been in New South Wales and also Victoria. These are very important states with a little bit more than half the country’s population.
Since the peer-reviewed quotes published in Environmental Research Letters in 2014, Australia’s fire see a long-lasting increase in burned location.
Yet these quotes reveal the impact of climate change does not enhance Australia’s burned area until the 2030s or 2040s.
Scientists suggest it’s not feasible to discover a link in between global warming and also fire for Australia today.
A boost will just come to be obvious in the 2040s. The pictures originating from Australia are surprising, yet pictures ought to not defeat science.
Across the Tasman Sea, New Zealand is intending to attain carbon non-partisanship by 2050.
New Zealand Institute of Economic Research, shows it will cost 16% of the country’s yearly economic situation.
It will just lower temperatures by four-thousands of a degree by 2100.
Reproduce those costs throughout Australian states and all over the world; taxpayers are just not going to hold up against that sort of discomfort, regardless of the purpose.
The world’s poor nations are never going to be able to afford to follow up. The prices alone make this remedy to climate adjustment wishful thinking.
This feeble, problematic action is pathetic. We require to invest much more resources on eco-friendly power R&D to create medium-term remedies to climate change.
As well as we need to concentrate on the numerous straightforward procedures that would assist now.
Wildfire researchers have consistently told us that forest gas degrees maintain enhancing, making extreme bushfires much more most likely.
Managed burns cheaply and properly lower
high-intensity wildfires.
Various other practical policies include much better building codes, mechanical thinning, much safer power lines. These also include minimizing the potential for spread of lightning-caused wildfires campaigns to reduce deliberate ignitions.
The caring, efficient feedback to Australia’s catastrophe is to concentrate on the plans that could assist.
Bjorn Lomborg is president of the Copenhagen Consensus, also a visiting professor at the Copenhagen Business School.
climate change could devastate nearly all of Earth's coral reef habitats by 2100
New research says climate change could
devastate nearly all of Earth’s coral reef habitats by 2100.
Among the existing, around 70-90% of
coral reefs are likely to disappear in the next 20 years because of warming
oceans, acidic water, and pollution, said scientists from the University of
Hawaii Manoa.
They made their findings public on last
Monday at an ocean sciences conference.
A few ecological activists and coral reef researchers have been working closely on the restoration of coral. They tried to grow live corals in a lab, and then put them back into aquatic environments to restore dying reefs.
But the researchers warned, this may not
be adequate to save Earth’s coral reefs.
The new study made cluster on the ocean
areas that would be best suited to this type of coral restoration. They also
took into consideration factors like acidity, water temperature, human
population density and fishing frequency.
After investigating the world’s oceans, they
reached a serious remark: “By 2100, few to zero suitable coral habitats will
remain.”
Unfortunately, existing ocean parts
where coral reefs live today won’t be healthy by 2045. And, the circumstance of
these environments is only likely to get worse by 2100, according to the team’s
simulations.
Only a few sites will be viable for the
restoration of a coral reef by 2100, like portions of Baja California and the
Red Sea — even these aren’t suitable territories for reef because they’re
close to rivers.
The researchers warned that human-made
climate change was the big killer, a small part of the larger threat.
“Cleaning up the beaches and battling
pollution are praiseworthy. But, we need to continue those efforts,” Setter
said in that release.
Fertilizer to fuel maritime ships may grasp carbon footprints.
Maritime ships could use Ammonia as a fuel to reduce emissions.
The maritime shipping industry is to grasp its carbon footprint, as it has a massive contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. It also dumps chemicals into open seas. Already, the global shipping industry contributes about 2% of global carbon emissions, as the BBC reported.
As a clean-up act, the industry is trying to stop burning diesel. As a possible fuel source, ammonia can make the shipping industry carbon emission-free.
We know, ammonia – the key ingredient of fertilisers – can be used in ships’ engines rather than burning diesel.
The industry expects ammonia will help a lot to tackle climate change, as it burns without CO2 emissions.
A report says, the making of the ammonia itself produces extensive CO2, but technology can solve this problem.
Manufacturing ammonia is also a major source of carbon. According to a report by the Royal Society, the manufacture of ammonia currently creates 1.8% of global CO2 emissions – a significant the most of any chemical industry.
However, the report says new technology can create zero-carbon ammonia. A possible way is by trapping the CO2 emissions when ammonia is manufactured and burying the CO2 in underground rocks.
Another way of making alleged “green” ammonia is to use renewable energy which doesn’t create any CO2.
But it is a big concern whether adequate clean energy is obtainable to create ammonia at scale soon.
Does ammonia power ships?
Man Energy Solutions, an engine designer, is making a two-stroke ammonia-powered engine. It will be ready by 2024.
The firm’s spokesman, Peter Kirkeby, said: “We get a very big interest in ammonia as an alternative fuel from the market – even though there are challenges.”
Also, he expected ammonia to match the price of other alternative fuels.
However, the ships powered by greener fuels may take more valuable space for fuel storage. Then It will be too bulky to fuel maritime ships.
However, there are still caveats. For example, ammonia does not burn as efficiently as diesel. It also creates nitrogen oxides, which are greenhouse gasses. However, the Royal Society report is optimistic that technology will address those problems, according to the BBC.
But the success remains challenging. Burning ammonia may not crate CO2, but it does generate nitrogen oxides. These are greenhouse gases too.
So, the technology requires to solve this issue to deal with this.
Thinking on ammonia?
The Royal Society’s lead author, Prof Bill David, reported: “Ammonia is the only zero-carbon fuel that will get you across the oceans.”
“We are going to install fuel cell modules with a total power of 2 MW onboard Viking Energy in 2024,” he added. “Hopefully, it will turn this vessel into the world’s first emission-free supply vessel.”
But he warned: “In terms of industrial emissions, ammonia derives only after cement and steel, so it requires to decarbonise the manufacture of ammonia.”
The UN shipping body, the IMO, has a target of splitting emissions from international shipping by 2050 compared with 2008.
A group of major maritime carriage owners says $2 should be taxed on every tonne of ships’ fuel to backing research into clean engines.
As a concern, environmentalists have consistently complained against the shipping industry regarding its emissions. Shortly, they want to reduce the amount of shipping overall and impose slower cruising speeds to save fuel.
What is Plan-B for the resilience in the face of climate change?
Planners and coordinators talk more about resilience in the face of climate change. But 300 million people require no such techniques featuring a large “if.”. They desperately need different R-word that secures their future.
It is along with a hundred-year flooding, record-breaking melting of glaciers, wildfires and drought. The tales appear with numbing regularity. And though the details vary, they all point to the same grim final thought.
We’re falling short to deal with environment modification. With carbon discharges continuing to rise, what was as soon as rejected as worst-case situations currently look like the most effective, we can hope for?
If Strategy A was to prevent, or at the very least minimize, the most serious effects of environmental change, what’s Plan B?
In our Plan-A world, architecture and preparation have become concentrated on the idea of “resistant” design. However, continuing to speak about “Resilience “in the face of ever-worsening forecasts is its very own kind of environment denial. It’s time for coordinators to begin changing the R-word of the minute with a now not-so-unthinkable one.
No more hide and secret.
According to a recent paper in a scientific journal, Nature Communications, a few of the earlier estimates of populace variation from the sea-level rise are possibly way as well low.
Around the world, as opposed to some 50 million people may require to relocate to higher ground over the next thirty years. The oceans are possible to climb more than our forecast. Also, the variety of environment refugees might surpass 300 million. Certainly, sea-level increase looks likely to reach in yards and also meters, not inches or feet.
Where will all of these displaced people go?
Can they are ready to relocate in existing cities, communities as well as villages? Which cities will we defend? Which will we surrender? Who will choose? These are extraordinary layout and also preparation difficulties that our society hasn’t started to consider, let alone prepare for. Provided the progressively alarming overview, our company believes it is time to begin.
Over the last few years, we’ve seen countless climate-resiliency plans including bioswales, rainfall yards, retention ponds, planet berms, dams, sea-wall obstacles, also oyster beds.
All of these techniques are useful, but they feature a large “if.” They will certainly assist protect our seaside cities if we additionally reduced our carbon discharges in time to alleviate also worse effects of environment adjustment.
But for the welfare of future generations, we require to truthfully examine the risks ahead as well as strategy properly. Coordinators are anticipated to operate within numerous periods, and also the challenge today is even trickier.
Political fight to control the bet on fossil fuels.
Moving existing cities, retrofitting old ones for explosive development, creating brand-new negotiations and reducing thousands of miles of contaminated shorelines will be pricey and complex. Also, if correctly planned, this will certainly be a messy and even brutal process. Probably, it will descend right into turmoil right out of the scientific method.
However, it was nothing in comparison to the real-time difficulties encountering coastal communities and the cities in the years ahead.
Similarly, our issues are not only the sea-level rise.
Many locations inland will see water end up being significantly. It will place enormous stress and anxiety on negotiation patterns and also farming. Mass movements will unavoidably become a part of our children’s and also grandchildren’s futures.
Unfortunately, few of our political leaders will “go there” yet, because their preparation for the future expands specifically regarding the next election. It’s time for planners and coordinators to seem the alarm system. It is time, to put it simply, to obtain genuinely.
The irony is that as we dawdle, energy, and also insurance provider, along with the Pentagon, are looking to encounter what’s coming. In the real world, that’s a danger administration. And, many cities are taking the procedure of durable preparation. It is time for them to join with states as well as regions, along with the private side of the central government.
A swamped shoreline is not only a national security issue. It’s not simply an actuarial challenge for the insurance industry. It’s our future, as well as it’s upon us.
Hydroelectric dams affect the temperature of river water
Hydroelectric dams use river flow to turn a series of turbines to generate electricity. It is a source of renewable energy that doesn’t depend on fossil fuels. However, it disrupts the flow of rivers, and impact the wildlife habitat, agricultural land, and scenic lands there.
Not all wildlife impacts associated with dams can be directly attributed to hydroelectric power. However, hydroelectric facilities can still have a major impact on aquatic ecosystems.
However, large-scale hydroelectric dams continue to built in many parts of the world. In the United States, there are about 80,000 dams of which only 2,400 produce power. The other dams are for recreation, stock/farm ponds, flood control, water supply, and irrigation.
Installation and dismantling of hydroelectric power plants cause global warming.
Nonetheless, global warming emits during the installation and dismantling of hydroelectric power plants. However, current estimates suggest that life-cycle emissions of hydroelectric power plants can be over 0.5 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt-hour.
Scientists are monitoring the environmental consequences of hydroelectric dams to know the effect on a river’s temperature. Recently, a team of researchers at the University of Washington has published their study on how several hydroelectric dams affected the temperature of Southeast Asia’s three major rivers.
Use of satellite data to track changes in surface water temperature
The researchers used Landsat satellites to track changes in surface water temperature for the Sekong, Sesan and Srepok rivers. The satellites capture the heat, or infrared radiation, from the rivers.
The Sekong, Sesan and Srepok rivers combine into one river, which eventually enters the Mekong River, a central feature of the Southeast Asian ecosystem. People rely on these rivers for fish and irrigation mostly.
Using 30 years of satellite data, the team discovered that within one year of the opening of a major dam, downstream river temperatures during the dry season dropped by up to 2 degrees centigrade.
The cooling kept on where these three rivers meet the Mekong River, showed a 0.8 centigrade cooling most.
Researchers’ Opinion
“People are seeing a cooling effect after the installation of the hydroelectric dam 20 years ago. But what we see in the Mekong is really amazing’” said senior author Faisal Hossain. He is a civil and environmental engineering professor at the University of Washington.
“Lots of dams were just suddenly coming on, left and right. And now we can see this cooling effect that is no longer restricted but continuing into the river system. It is the best of our knowledge.”
The team investigated whether anything else might be driving these temperature drops, such as air temperature, precipitation or land use in the surrounding region.
Remarkably, the air temperature showed a slight warming trend. The land around the rivers causes deforestation during that period. But researchers said that is often linked to water warming, not cooling. That points to the role of these dams.
The team found that this infusion once warmed the Mekong so that the river was, at most, 0.4-degree centigrade warmer downstream of the confluence than it was upstream.
But after 2001, the trend reversed, with the rivers now slightly cooling the Mekong River. The river is now up to 0.8-degree centigrade cooler — not warmer — downstream of the confluence.
The cooler water could have an effect on the fish that live downstream, the researchers said.
Lead author Matthew Bonnema, a postdoctoral researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said, “New dams are building closer to the Mekong. These are also big dams. It means the impacts on the Mekong will likely be more significant. These temperature changes are going to get more dramatic.”
Limitations of this study
Using satellite data to monitor river temperature has a caution: clouds block the satellites’ view of the Earth.
So, the team could only monitor changes during the region’s dry season. Still, the researchers were able to detect decreases in river temperature within a year after major dams on all three rivers came online.
The team has used the Reservoir Assessment Tool. This is the world’s first publicly available global reservoir-monitoring system that processes massive amounts of data from satellites for more than 1,500 dams around the world.
Sundari tree, the most common mangrove species in the Sundarbans, is becoming unhealthy gradually.
However, there is no significant decline in the number of mangroves in the Sundarbans for the last 30 years. However, there is evidence of a 25% health decline of the mangrove trees.
And, it is due to the effect of increased salinity on Sundari tree. But the continuing effects of climate change could critically hamper its ability to reborn.
About this Study.
A satellite-based data-driven study on world’s mangrove system brought new findings says that the dreadful effects of climate change could severely hamper the growths of Sundari tree.
Most significantly, the ‘top-dying
disease’ is the reason for declining 15% of trees in the Sundarbans since the
80s.
Around 1.44 million cubic meters of
Sundari trees have been lost to “top-dying disease in the last 30 years,”
experts said.
Top-dying disease among the Sundari,
heart-rot disease among the Pashur, and die-back disease in the Kewara, are
behind the trees’ rapid decline.
The expert said, the increases of saline water are the key reason, and this is happening in the Sundarbans.
Unfavourably, the Sundari tree is
less tolerant of high salinity levels than other mangrove species and has
previously been identified as suffering from die-back due to rising salinity.
Meanwhile, this recent study did not
find any noteworthy decrease in the number of mangroves in Sundarbans last 30
years.
“However, there is evidence of a
decline in the health of about 25% of the mangrove trees,” said study author
Katie Awty-Carroll of Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth
University, Wales.
Awty-Carroll and his team observed a
long 30-year time series of Landsat data of the entire Sundarbans.
However, it is hard to know the proper explanations behind this decline in mangrove health, the scientists think the long-term decline in mangrove health may be linked to the impacts of increased salinity on the Sundari tree.
Accordingly, the analysis shows if 25% of the forest is getting less healthy, those areas will be at greater risk of decline in the future, especially if extreme events such as cyclones become more common,” Awty-Carroll said.
Also, rising sea levels are
increasing salinity, with adverse effects on the damage from severe cyclones,
means that the defensive capacity of the Sundarbans could be reduced in future
years.
This study also explored the damage
of Sidr, which made landfall in Bangladesh in November 2007.
“We estimate that around 11% of the
Sundarbans forest was damaged by Sidr, which is lower than other estimates,”
said Awty-Carroll.
Moreover, they claimed that this study is the only one which looks at damage over the whole of the Sundarbans region immediately after the cyclone’s landfall.
Meanwhile, this study also revealed that the effects of Sidr were still apparent more than 10 years after the cyclone made landfall.
Accordingly, this suggests that major cyclones could decrease the health of the mangroves for a long.
However, the main limitation of the study is the absence of on-the-ground measurements to compare the satellite observations. Despite having sufficient data, we have to be cautious in interpreting our results.
Andy Large, a field-based physical
geographer with Newcastle University, echoed with this report.
We also know, Climate change has to
lead to an increase in the salinity of the water and soil of the Sundarbans—
which is another reason for the rapid decline in the number of Mangrove Spices.
According to experts, the change in the quantities of saline and uneven cyclone causes harm to mangrove forests.
Earlier, noted water expert Ainun Nishat said, “Sundari trees have been dying due to the adverse effects of the Farakka and a lack of sweet water.”
Earlier, it was a finding of 30ppm of
salinity in the water—which declines the disease-prevention capacity of the
trees.
There was more substantial criticism about the Chinese environmental policy and also its uneven track of development. In terms of quality, China has experienced negative consequences in its air and groundwater. But today, facts have started to change under the administration of Xi Jinping.
Apparently, China is changing its standard
way of advancement where the environment is apriority. Additionally, the environment
is a thing to be regulated; otherwise, it would undoubtedly see a misfortune
created fierce human-caused activities.
Xi Jinping’s administration brought some radical changes in environmental issues. Moreover, the Chinese corporate, as well as civil society, are equally determined to erase the image of environmental austere.
Also, China has participated in multilateral arrangements at a worldwide degree on greenhouse gas to control emission.
Particularly, China is now the leading force to generate renewable energy by installing large solar plants and also the largest producer of wind power.
Already, China has built 680000 electrical
vehicles, buses, and vehicles surpassing overall globe manufacturing over the
last few years.
We better know Donald Trump has pulled the USA of Paris Climate Accord where China stays with it. Different neighbourhood and foreign companies are currently praising Chinese shuffle to an environmental plan. Especially adjustments in its administration are eye staking.
A changing landscape of stars
With the leadership of Xi Jinping,
different actors have arisen while a few have pulled away from environmental
monitoring affairs at the domestic level.
Players make up both standard and also
non-conventional, including judges, district attorneys, environmental NGOs, and
even Chinese residents too.
The suggestion of environmental justice in
China is the outcome of it.
Recent empowerment of regional tax bureaus
to collect taxes connected to ecological air pollution and Environmental Police
have a fantastic repercussion to execute Chinese environmental policy.
New environmental tax obligation was
ushered in recently, which makes it harder for polluters to pollute and dump.
It works as a preventative guard towards unhygienic production.
Previously, the Environmental Protection Bureaus (EPBs) was in charge of accumulating environmental tax obligations, and now regional tax obligation bureaus are equipped to gather taxes more sophistically.
On the other hand, environmental police was a single payment of china starting from Kunming in 2008 to dozens of cities currently in 2019. This particular police force patrols around cities to find and also stop air pollution and dumping.
Moreover, China is making use of the Chinese communist party hierarchy to develop governance.
One river, One Chief system, encourages rural leaders to keep water quality of streams. They can approach to polluting sectors without governmental muddling and do something about it promptly.
Another improvement of the Chinese
environmental plan is dismantling the Ministry of Environmental Protection with
a new full incorporating the Ministry of Ecology and also Environment.
This radical reformation is aimed to create a more coherent ecological policy. Though all these advancements are yet to bring potentiality to deal with negative climate adjustment.
Difficult laws, as well as projects: a
brand-new position in China
Equally, together with administrated reform, China is improving in the field of environmental law and also ad-hoc campaigns. So, it has presented a couple of legislations and devices to deal with ecological adjustment.
And, the state council’s introduction to “Regulations on open federal government details” in 2007 has taken to take care of information disclosure regarding pollutions. However, different technological measurements of air and water quality index are noteworthy in current growth.
China, as an authoritarian state, heavily
counts on the carrot as well as stick policy to handle ecological
mismanagement. Revised setting defence legislation in 2014 leads a brand-new
era in China.
Now, authorities can charge polluters as they desire to impose without any ceiling. Also, this legislation held government authorities accountable if they fall short to bill polluters.
Virtually 10,000 polluters consisting of government officials were punished under this regulation in 2016-17, where few were placed in jail.
Moreover, the Communist Party is now giving rewards to neighbourhood leaders and officials to fight versus contamination. However, over-focus on compensation pressure is extensively slammed.
Already, China has created action-based projects to obtain a quick outcome. Generally, the Chinese Communist Party’s leaders activate the substantial number of programs to take immediate activity against contaminating business.
Also, they could cut off the power connection or gas service to destroy polluters’ residences. It likewise has negative results, however, quite reliable.
Finally, you may take a look at China’s usage of technology in environmental administration. Also, the use of technical means like GPS, GIS, or remote sensing offers an actual-time details exchange. Now, corresponding authorities can evaluate, report on, and also action to contamination as well as tree coverage area.
Currently, drones are using to discover waste dischargers. Additionally, China uses large information to predict the ecological situation.
Undoubtedly, Xi Jinping’s administration is juncture. Primarily, China is not walking on a sceptic vision of climate change. Chinese sentiment of denial of the environmental worry is not still pertinent.
At this moment, a top priority of development ought to not go beyond environmental price. Individuals, as well as event, does rule out climate change as a hoax as referred by Trump.
It would be a great learning for Bangladesh that we ought to not secure to Chinese old-growth version sooner learns from new environmental steps stabilizing financial growth. In the end, we will need to stay on this earth, breathe within its ambience.
In the coastal areas of Bangladesh, salinity intrusion in soil may lead to a declining yield by 15.6% of high-harvesting-variety rice and reduce the income of farmers significantly.
In the backdrop of climate change, we know, the coastal
population is more exposed to saltwater intrusion. These populations on the“front
line” of climate change because of the continued sea-level rise beyond 2100,
even if greenhouse gas emissions remain stable today.
Therefore, Bangladesh must understand the potential
impacts and begin planning to cope with them.
However, most research has focused on the long-run effects of the sea level rise and associated losses from heightened cyclone-induced surges.
So, we need to investigate the level of amplified salinity from saltwater intrusion, and its impact on livelihoods and adaptation alternatives.
Already, they found the coastal area is facing problems
from salinization. And, the situation is deteriorating.
River salinity in coastal areas.
Climate change causes substantial changes in river salinity. Accordingly, It leads to the crisis of drinking water as well as the shortage of irrigation water.
Shortly, the changes in river salinity will adversely
affect the productivity of many capture fisheries. Negatively, it will affect
the wild habitats of freshwater fish and giant prawns.
The health of Mangrove trees is declining.
A new study says the health of mangrove trees of the
Sundarbans has significantly declined over the last 30 years due to salinity
increase.
Consequently, the decline in health could critically hamper the ability to spring back. It makes it prone to unexpected climate-related hazards.
Also, the salinity increase in the water may induce a
shift in the Sunderbans mangrove forest from Sundari to Gewa and Guran.
Accordingly, Bagerhat, Barguna, Barisal, Bhola, Khulna,
Jhalokati, Pirojpur, and Satkhira districts will be most adversely affected.
Climate Change, Soil Salinity in Coastal Bangladesh
Soon, the salinity level in the soil will surge in many areas of Barisal, Chittagong, and Khulna districts significantly. A study on the soil of the coastal regions of Bangladesh, the Soil Research Development Institute projects a median increase of 26% in salinity by 2050, with increases over 55% in the most affected areas.
Impacts on rice production due to climate change.
Accordingly, the climate-induced soil salinity is impacting on the output of high-harvesting-variety rice. As a result, the rice harvest is likely to decline by 15.6% in nine coastal unions, where the soil salinity will exceed around four decisions per meter by 2050.
Now, the farmers are earning less from rice production in several regions, along with the losses of 10.5% Barisal and 7.5 in Chittagong, earlier.
Consequently, many unions are suffering from significant yield losses and substantial price reductions from rising salinity.
Livelihoods are in threat in a changing climate.
Already, the salinity has switched the household status
to the most harmful levels from their least harmful. The poverty impact is
striking one: the probability that the economic situation of a coastal household
is in the bottom 20% rises six-fold, from 8% to 56%.
Therefore, the Bangladesh government is trying to cope up with the adverse effects of a changing climate. As we know, the country is one of the frontiers which is affected by climate change.
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As sea levels rise and the fierce cyclones, the salinity intrusion into coastal areas, impacting the lives of millions of residents of Bangladesh.
Around 35 million people are living on the edge of a climate catastrophe, at the coastal belt of the Bay of Bengal.
We often spoke about the immediate impacts of storms and tidal upsurges. But we hear less about the resulting salinity increase and its long-term consequences. Each time saltwater from the sea contaminates farms and water sources when a tidal surge sweeps the inland. Along with drastic economic effects, as its consequences, worsening of crop yields, malnutrition, and diseases are significant concerns.
Nearly 98% of freshwater reservoirs and ecosystem is lost.
As consequences, high and long-term salinity exposure has deteriorated the coastal lifestyle, and acute health crises emerged while sub-surface and surface water is contaminated by salinity intrusion in the coastal area. Approximately 98% of freshwater reservoirs and ecosystems were abolished, and it has created potable water scarcities.
The salinity gradients in groundwater increased several-fold over previous decades. A significant change is observed in the salinity of the groundwater aquifer over the last ten years. The salt content is at its highest level during the summer season.
45% of people drink pond water without taking any disinfection measures.
Here, life is so miserable when access to fresh drinking water. That is why local people can’t regularly drink enough water to meet their bodies ‘ demands owing to severe drinking water shortages.
Unfortunately, the average potable water collection time takes around four hours a day. Moreover, around 45% of people use pond water for drinking without taking any disinfection measures. However, it is hardly found the number of households used to drink pond water after boiling it. Very few people use water from desalination plants during emergency periods to fulfil their needs.
Not enough money to get treatment for their disease.
The regional water crisis cause residents suffering from high blood pressure and cardiovascular diseases, a high prevalence of kidney diseases, skin diseases, and diarrhoea.
Thus, more than 95% of residents do not get proper treatment because of high treatment costs and lack of medical support at the community level. They only receive some medical support only during the immediate aftermath of devastating disasters.
First food, then treatment.
Despite having no adequate money to meet the regular household needs, their average health treatment cost has increased by around 24%. So, most low-income people try to ignore their health diseases. It leads to a thought process of “first food, then treatment.”
Why integrated policy measures?
Over the last few decades, local peoples are highly exposed to drinking water salinity. So, a severe water crisis turns into a coastal public health crisis.
Within the disaster-affected economy, health expenditure is one of the most influential factors. That can increase population migration considering coastal environmental hazards.
How can we reduce its impact? What are the best social actions between government and non-government organizations regarding the salinity intrusion?
Also, it requires regular health check-ups to measure the impact of potable water access and salt intake and to monitor health diseases.
Study area
To understand the level of salt intrusion, this study was carried out in the Shyamnagar sub-district in the Satkhira district of Bangladesh. The five unions are Atulia, Burigoaliny, Gabura, Munshigonj, and Padmapukur. Those unions are highly vulnerable to cyclonic storm surges, waterlogging, and flooding hazards.
Reference:
Khan, R. (2020). COP25: The case for a sincere investment in loss and damage. Dhaka: The Daily Star.
Rakib, M., Sasaki, J., Matsuda, H., & Fukunaga, M. (2019). Severe salinity contamination in drinking water and associated human health hazards increase migration risk in the southwestern coastal part of Bangladesh. Journal of Environmental Management, 238-248.
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Achieving the world’s ‘first solar nation’ in vain
Bangladesh is neither prioritising the extension of solar energy nor trying to achieve the goal of being the world’s ‘first solar nation’. Because the government is trying to ensure electricity for all by March 2021. So, nothing is going to remain off-gird.
Consequently, the growth of solar energy installation is not significant in the last two years. So, the quest for the cleaner electricity fell in the electricity connections in off-grid areas by public agencies.
According to the Sustainable & Renewable Energy Development Authority (SREDA), the solar energy installation system dropped by 19% year-on-year to 43.25-megawatt last year.
This was the second consecutive year that the solar energy drive slowed down since the year 2017. Then it was 57.75 megawatt.
“As entire Bangladesh is coming under 100% electrification, nothing is going to remain off-gird,” said (SREDA) Chairman Md Helal Uddin.
The solar home system stands at around 60 lakhs now. But, it fails to keep its momentum for the growing electricity connection.
Now more than 95% of the population has access to electricity.
The off-grid power solution got popularity in 2003 using the stand-alone photovoltaic systems, as the solar home systems.
By the end of 2017, the country installed 5.2 million solar-home systems. That offer a cost-effective mode of supplying power to remote off-grid households.
In 2018, Bangladesh was the second-highest user of solar home systems now after India.
SREDA and Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL) are public agencies to monitor the solar home system program.
Earlier, it was a government plan. The renewable sources should provide about 10% of the total power generation capacity by 2021. So, it means 2400MW power generation is from renewable sources.
So far, the policy of the off-grid solar could not ignite hope of achieving projected government target.
It was a comprehensive
session the Digital Bangladesh Mela 2020 where country’s policymaker associated
with Sustainable Development Goals and ICT took participation.
Country’s former coordinator
of Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) Md. Abul Kalam Azad was the keynote
speaker of this session.
He has shared his opinion of
how Bangladesh is being prepared to meet the SDGs by the year 2030.
His discussion topics were on
the country’s service innovation, public and private services, capacity
development, and SDG Trackers.
His presentation was on how
our ICT ministry is closely working with around 39 basics identified by the government
to meet the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The theme, ‘Leaving no one
behind’, a committee for development policy addressed multiple dimensions of
the SDGs also highlighted.
‘Country’s ICT activities enabled us to lead Bangladesh Civil Service in Administrative reform of reducing time, cost and visit (TCV) while providing service to the citizens,’ he said while discussing on SDG trackers.
He also said, ’ICT has
brought several administrative reforms including the Annual Performance
Appraisal (APA) system in Bangladesh Civil Service.’
‘Soon we are going to declare
Country’s Vision 2100 thanks to the strong leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh
Hasina,’ he said.
He also addressed that our
country is being fully prepared for the 4th state industrial revolution.
Mr Abul Kalam Azad
successfully led the SDG planning and implementation from Prime Minister’s
Office of Bangladesh.
The Digital Bangladesh Mela
2020 is intended to showcase next-generation 5G internet technology and
building an efficient ecosystem for the coming digital era led by the fourth
state industrial revolution.
Mustafa Jabbar, Minister of Posts, Telecommunication, and Information Technology was the key guest of this session.
“5G is the tool for fourth
industrial revelation and the country will see the first demonstration of the
technology in the fair,” he said while talking participants at the BICC.
The arrangements aimed to
showcase the advancement of 5G technology in human-to-machine or
machine-to-machine communication.
The Posts and
Telecommunications Division has organized the event where both local and
foreign private entities in the digital technology sector took part.
A total of 100 stalls,
pavilions, and mini pavilions has installed at the fair.
Ministers and digital technology
experts attended this panel discussion about the present and future of
technology, digital economy, digital growth, and achievement of Sustainable
Development Goals.
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Numerous vehicles, specifically motorbikes, are running
without retro-reflective number plates along with radio-frequency recognition
tags throughout the nation in defiance of repeated cautions.
RR number plates work in tracking the place of the vehicles
that use them in the instance of any emergency.
Bangladesh Road Transport Authority officials claimed that to date, 24.91 lakh RR number plates were marked to motor vehicles while thus far 30.49 lakh such number plates were generated.
The proprietors of some 5.58 lakh automobiles are yet to use
the plate on their cars.
BRTA supervisor for the design division Lokman Hossain
Mollah informed on Sunday that most of these vehicles were motorbikes.
Nowadays, various records on-road mishaps indicate that the participation of motorbikes in fatal roadway accidents is enhancing.
Most automobiles run without RR number plates
Just 11 BRTA executive magistrates are struggling to examine
the irregularities on the roads in the Dhaka and also Chattogram cities,
according to BRTA officials.
In this backdrop, the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority,
on January 9, provided an urgent round for all the car proprietors to gather
their number layers from its workplaces by January 31.
Otherwise, the circular warned, proceedings will undoubtedly
be taken against the proprietors as well as the car that would run without these
number plates.
After prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on October 31, 2012, inaugurated the production of RR number plates, the Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory Limited on November 7 started making the number plates.
The effort was taken to improve the order as well as safety
and security when driving. The retro-reflective materials send out most of
their light back to their source.
On the various other hands, radio-frequency identification
involves a non-contact wireless system that makes use of radio-frequency
electronic fields to transfer information from a tag affixed to an object for
the functions of automatic recognition and tracking.
On October 10, 2015, a circular was provided, which read, ‘Vehicles which take registration from the BRTA will certainly not have the ability to run anywhere in the nation without RR number plate and RFID tags after December 31 in the same year.’
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On December 31, 2015, following a BRTA proposal, the
deadline was extended until March 2016.
Yet all these actions are unsuccessful.
The latest round provided in January pointed out that their
owners plied numerous vehicles after signed up in one district in other areas.
When the number of plates prepared, the proprietors refused
to take their vehicles to the district of registration. It is also gotten transferring their number
plates to the area where their vehicles were running.
These transfer applications created different administrative
as well as monitoring troubles, the round more claimed, adding that the procedure
was also time-consuming.
Under these scenarios, the owners have been asked to take
their vehicles to the same BRTA offices to acquire the number plates, where
their vehicles were registered, Lokman added.
A report published by Nirapad Sarak Chai on January 4 revealed
that amongst the 1,190 vehicle drivers eliminated in road crashes throughout
2019, the highest 648 were motorcyclists.
Besides, of all the vehicles involved in the 2019 fatal accidents, bikes caused the highest possible 23 percent of them, the report added.
Passenger car registration is downscaling because of the growing use of ride-sharing services, higher import costs of reconditioned autos are amongst crucial variables.
The variety of passenger cars signed up in Dhaka declined in 2014 for the very first time since 2013.
Besides, the variety of recon and new autos and microbuses getting registered with the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) remained to drop throughout the nation for the second successive year.
Nevertheless, with Dhaka being the exemption, the number of
new motorbikes registered in 2014 rose throughout the nation.
However, 434 passenger cars are signed up at BRTA offices in Dhaka each day. The everyday average registration consists of 272 motorbikes and also 41 vehicles, according to BRTA information.
Numerous professionals see the pattern as a ray of wish for reducing the capital’s traffic congestion. So, they condemn automobiles for using up roadway room while lugging fewer individuals than bigger lorries.
On the other hand, motorcycles are ending up being progressively in cities primarily because they can sieve via traffic.
Car registration drops in Dhaka.
In 2014, 5.04 lakh cars took registration across the country, including 1.58 lakh in Dhaka. In 2018, the figures were 4.97 lakh as well as 1.71 lakh, specifically.
Abdul Haque, head of state of the Bangladesh Reconditioned Vehicles Importers as well as Dealers Association (BARVIDA), labelled the duty framework for passenger cars inequitable.
The government reduced the maximum depreciation of imported reconditioned vehicles to 35% in 2018-19 from 45% in 2015-16.
Thanks to ride-hailing solutions, many people are avoiding
purchasing autos, Abdul said.
Spoken to Uber authorities stated the firm was intending to place even more people in cars.
App-based ride-hailing services are continuing in Dhaka since May 2015. The incorporation of bikes popularised the services.
Currently, there is 12 registered ride-hailing business with over 1 lakh vehicles, generally bikes as well as automobiles.
Sajol Rahman, a private staff member, claimed he was
preparing to get a vehicle in 2017. “But we left away from the plan
because making use of ride-sharing services verified to be practical.”
Prof Shamsul claimed the acquisition of 600 buses by the BRTC, as well as the intro of some brand-new bus courses in Dhaka as well as its surrounding areas, caused the boost in buses and minibuses.
“This is a great indication, particularly for lowering traffic jams in Dhaka,” Prof Shamsul, likewise a previous director of the Accident Research Institute at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, said.
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BRTA Director (operations) Sitanghsu Shekhar Biswas stated they did not bring any change at any plans or charges that might influence the variety of vehicles. Import responsibilities of cars and trucks or various other tax concerns may have a contribution, he added.
Slowly, the number of autos enrolment in Dhaka is decreasing from 19,573 in 2017 to 15,016 last year. Outdoors Dhaka, the number also drops from 21,959 to 16,783 during the very same duration.
In 2014, fewer vehicles and also microbuses took registration in the nation; however, the enrolment of new buses and mini-buses enhanced.
The registered numbers of buses and mini-buses were 3,606 and 837 in 2015 throughout the country. In 2018, it was 2,755 and also 436, respectively. The BRTC’s import of 600 buses in 2014 was a significant factor behind the rise.
The authorities do not have any record of how many of these vehicles get on the road currently. Besides, non-listed cars are running the streets.
How to search for a reliable custom furniture builder that will
guarantee quality work without overcharging? Erina is a trustworthy solution in
terms of custom-made furniture.
Custom furniture is one made according to your specifications. While
there are numerous home furniture options available in retail and furniture
stores, at times, the best answer to your home decorating problem is to order
custom furniture.
With it, you can design the furniture by yourself, or choose a specific style from magazines and change the details, like materials such as wood, fabric, and stain.
Erina Furniture
Choosing a reliable custom furniture maker would be your first step. Ask
your friends and relatives for recommendations in your area. They might also
suggest you Erina as it a specialized service only design unique furniture.
Here are guidelines on choosing a reliable furniture maker:
When you finally find a potential furniture builder, ask if you can see some samples of the works he created.
Ask about his experience in the field of furniture building. Generally, a minimum of four years’ experience is preferable.
Decide what type of material to be used, and if you are envisioning a specific furniture design, discuss it with your furniture maker along with some specifications. An experienced furniture builder will easily understand and perceive what you are suggesting.
Let your furniture maker sketch his perception of the furniture that you both have discussed.
Ask how much your custom furniture will cost. A reliable furniture maker will usually give you a rough estimate plus a detailed list of the materials, such as the kind and quality of wood you want, and his labor cost.
Compare his quote to other custom furniture makers whom you had made inquiries.
Ask about payment terms. Generally, custom furniture makers require a down payment with the balance usually paid upon completion of the work.
You may compare the cost of your custom furniture with other basic furniture in retail stores. The main reasons behind are its uniqueness, durability, and detailed craftsmanship.
What you probably will be paying for it today, will more possibly be the
smallest amount that you will ask for when you decide to sell your custom
furniture years from now.
Erina is the first-ever reliable furniture maker that makes custom
furniture in Bangladesh.
In
Bangladesh, the auto-components market has experienced healthy growth over the
last few years. Market Insider says the auto parts market has more than
doubled, mostly because of the rise of car users.
The auto-components market of Bangladesh has expanded
by 10% to reach a level of Tk 1,400 crore in FY 2016-17.
A business-friendly policy over the automotive sector, the increased purchasing power, growing domestic market, and an ever-increasing number of the reconditioned car have made Bangladesh a favorable destination for the automotive market.
Importers mostly import the engine, alternator,
radiator, air conditioner, suspension, brake pads, spoiler, rim, tire, trim
package, body components, and other spare parts needed to serve this market.
The annual growth of this auto-components market was
at an average of 10% to 12% for the last decade.
The market for automotive components is still
unorganized, so any exact data about the industry is not readily available.
Most of the importers fetch reconditioned and new
automobile parts from Thailand, China, Indonesia, Taiwan, Dubai, and India. At
least 200 traders import auto spare parts, and most of them have workshops.
More than 2,500 traders are involved in the components business.
All the most, all kinds of spare parts of various
motor cars are available in Bangladesh. Among the spare parts, 80% are for
Toyota cars and the rest for other brands.
Road Ahead
The world is opening up newer avenues for the
transportation industry. At the same time, it makes a shift towards hybrid
cars, which deemed more efficient, safe, and reliable modes of transportation.
Over the next decade, this will lead to newer
verticals and opportunities for auto-components importers, who would need to
adapt to the change via domestic requirement.
Bangladesh auto-components importers are
well-positioned to benefit from the globalization of the sector as
manufacturing potential.
Global Mining Lubricants market world is to grow by $727.4 million, driven by a compounded growth of 4.3%.
A study says, mineral oil lubricants displays the potential to grow at over 4.7%.
The shifting dynamics supporting this growth makes it critical for businesses in this space to keep abreast of the changing pulse of the market.
Moreover, based on the end-use industry, the segments of the mining lubricants market are iron ore mining, coal mining, bauxite mining, rare-earth mineral mining, and precious metal mining.
Production of coal ore is more than that of iron ore and other rare earth metals. Hence, the coal mining segment leads to the mining lubricants market. High energy consumption and industrial development are likely to foster the global mining lubricants market.
The demand for mineral oil lubricants is going to reach over $2 billion by the year 2025, will bring in healthy gains adding significant momentum to global growth.
This market mostly belongs to the developed world.
The United States will maintain a 3.3% growth momentum. Germany will add over $ 26.1 million to the region’s size and clout in the next 5 to 6 years.
Over $20.9 million worth of projected demand in the region will come from the rest of Europe markets.
In Japan, mineral oil lubricants could reach a market size of $112.5 million by the close of the analysis period.
The world’s second-largest economy, China exhibits the potential to grow at 6.9% over the next few years and adds approximately $210.8 million in terms of addressable opportunity for the picking by businesses and their leaders.
Several macroeconomic factors and internal market forces could shape the growth and development of demand patterns in emerging countries in Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Who is Zulker Naeen?
He is a man behind the brand stories.
Zulker Naeen is a brand designer by profession. He is a communication graduate from the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh.
Then, he started his career as a copywriter, shifted his career as a market researcher later on.
Afterward, as an individual practitioner, he has gathered a diverse knowledge of market research and brand designing.
His diverse portfolio says he is the smart guy behind four of the established lubricant brands in Bangladesh, like Hindustan Petroleum, Veedol™, Valvoline®, and Orient.
His portfolios are fast-moving consumer goods, energy, and power, automotive, and construction.
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Global Synthetic Lubricants, its market size is generated from heat transfer fluid, predicted to witness growth at over 4% by 2023.
The manufacturing industry is expected to increase the metalworking fluid demand over the forecast period. Various industrial processing mostly chemical, oil & gas, and pharmaceutical requires heat transfer efficiency.
The high cost of mineral oil may hamper the growth of the synthetic lubricant market.
The regulations imposed by different governments to support the environment-friendly product development will propel the demand for bio-lubricants, are also among the major restraints.
Existence of the numerous aviation industries including Boeing may spur the business growth in the coming years.
The enormous automotive and aerospace manufacturing companies including Rolls, Audi, Volkswagen, Airbus, Royce, Mercedes and BMW may increase the automobile sale, which may positively encourage the business growth over the forecast period.
The rising demand for reciprocating compressor may propel the industry landscape.
Who is Zulker Naeen?
He is a man behind the brand stories.
Zulker Naeen is a brand designer by profession. He is a communication graduate from the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh.
He started his career as a copywriter, shifted his career as a market researcher later on.
Afterwards, as an individual practitioner, he has gathered a diverse knowledge of market research and brand designing.
His diverse portfolio says he is the smart guy behind four of the established lubricants brands in Bangladesh, like Hindustan Petroleum, Veedol™, Valvoline®, and Orient.
His portfolios are fast-moving consumer goods, energy and power, automotive, and construction.
Google Zulker Naeen to understand his extensive portfolio as a brand designer.
Is the usual business model bringing growth for the lubricant companies?
Everyone is observing the exponential growth of the
lubricants demand in this market. But is it true the demand is growing? What
does the existing database say?
But, the growth rate of the lube companies is much higher
than the annual growth of the total lube demand in Bangladesh.
It is high time to be more strategic for your brand. Get the
next business guideline that will help you to grow your business in this
competitive market.
Contact us to develop the next year business plan.
Where companies are heading their lube business?
Who is Zulker Naeen?
He is a man behind the brand stories.
Zulker Naeen is a brand designer by profession. He is a
communication graduate from the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh.
He started his career as a copywriter, shifted his career as
a market researcher later on.
Afterwards, as an individual practitioner, he has gathered a diverse knowledge of market research and brand designing.
His diverse portfolio says he is the smart guy behind four
of the established lubricants brands in Bangladesh, like Hindustan Petroleum,
Veedol™, Valvoline®, and Orient.
His portfolios are fast-moving consumer goods, energy and
power, automotive, and construction.
Google Zulker Naeen to understand his extensive portfolio as a brand designer.
How successful the usual business model is for lube companies?
Everyone is observing the exponential growth of the lube demand in this market. But is it true the demand is growing? What does the existing database say?
But, the growth rate of the lube companies is much higher than the annual growth of the total lube demand in Bangladesh.
The annual domestic consumption has got almost 3% yearly growth, which is on par with India but behind China.
The lube market holds more than 100 brand names altogether and its number is increasing.
The demand from the automotive, construction sector, industrial machinery, and equipment application also accounts for a major share of the total lubricants driven by end-user sectors.
Additionally, the industrial sector accounts for 30% of the total lube consumption in Bangladesh.
The demand is the highest thanks to the automotive sector and the agriculture-based economy.
Shortly, the market is expected to witness steady growth in Bangladesh because of its growing economy.
It is high time to be more strategic for your lube brand. Get the next business guideline that will help you to grow your business in this competitive market.
Contact us to develop the next year business plan.
How successful the usual business model is for lube companies?
Who is Zulker Naeen?
He is a man behind the brand stories.
Zulker Naeen is a brand designer by profession. He is a communication graduate from the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh.
He started his career as a copywriter, shifted his career as a market researcher later on.
Afterwards, as an individual practitioner, he has gathered a
diverse knowledge of market research and brand designing.
His diverse portfolio says he is the smart guy behind four
of the established lubricants brands in Bangladesh, like Hindustan Petroleum,
Veedol™, Valvoline®, and Orient.
His portfolios are fast-moving consumer goods, energy and power, automotive, and construction.
Google Zulker Naeen to understand his extensive portfolio as a brand designer.
Everyone is observing the exponential growth of the lube demand in this market. But is it true the demand is growing? What does the existing database say?
But, the growth rate of the lube companies is much higher than the annual growth of the total lube demand in Bangladesh.
Expansion in transportation, construction infrastructure, and availability of finance, is fuelling the growth of the country’s lube market at a rapid rate.
Market insiders say that the annual demand of lube was around 1.75 lakh tons in the 2018-19 year, and it may reach two lakh tons in the 2019-20 year.
Earlier, the size of the local lube market stood at about Tk5, 000cr to Tk6, 000cr in the 2018-19 year, as the market grows by 5% to 7% per annum.
Increased economic activities, rising power sector, vibrant transportation, and mobility sector have boosted the lube market.
So, the next market depends on the back of the country’s economic growth, people’s buying capacity, and rising number of on-road vehicles.
It is high time to be more strategic for your brand. Get the
next business guideline that will help you to grow your business in this
competitive market.
Contact us to develop the next year business plan.
Where companies are heading their lube business?
Who is Zulker Naeen?
He is a man behind the brand stories.
Zulker Naeen is a brand designer by profession. He is a communication graduate from the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh.
He started his career as a copywriter, shifted his career as
a market researcher later on.
Afterwards, as an individual practitioner, he has gathered a
diverse knowledge of market research and brand designing.
Also, his diverse portfolio says he is the smart guy behind four of the established lubricants brands in Bangladesh, like Hindustan Petroleum, Veedol™, Valvoline®, and Orient.
Moreover, his portfolios are fast-moving consumer goods, energy and power, automotive, and construction.
Google Zulker Naeen to understand his extensive portfolio as a brand designer.
Bangladesh is now witnessing a leap in ride-sharing space with the emergence of the ride-sharing companies.
In 2016, ride-sharing tech companies stormed the market with Uber, Pathao and Amar Ride launching services in Dhaka.
On average, users took 6.0 million rides each month from rideshare services, according to January 2019 data. And it is clear evidence of massive uptake and growth of ride-sharing services.
However, the country’s ride-sharing economy may face multiple challenges in future. Globally, the current status of ride-sharing powerhouses puts a question over the sustainability of the existing business model. And it is also considerable.
In Bangladesh, the rideshare service star Pathao has faced challenges when investors backing out from expected funding rounds.
Consequently, the start-up reportedly valued at $100 million had to undergo significant downsizing of large numbers of mid- to top-level employees. However, it has put a consequence in country’s ride-sharing ecosystem.
What are the key
factors of the country’s ride-sharing economy?
Keeping users stick with one platform is a key challenge. While it’s not the happiest measure, customer churn is common since it is merely a matter of switching between apps.
Companies take on promo-code to counter this, as a key strategy for customer acquisition and retention. However, several geographies of the ride-sharing set the failure of the promo-code driven growth strategy.
Heavy investments in promotions, intended to acquire more market shares, and subsequently, more investor funds, worked less in many cases.
Another strategy to extend other service verticals, like food, logistics has got more users on-board, but balancing different strategies can drain investor funds too quickly. The platforms need to have multiple service verticals to strap up the users’ loyalty, since creating brand loyalty is more difficult for app-based services.
Another problem specific to the ride-sharing economy is disintermediation.
In the context of ridesharing, when users and service providers agree to transact bypassing the platform is disintermediation.
Disintermediation has turned into a major problem. It also caused revenue loss for various sharing economy platforms. It leaves platforms and its users vulnerable since drivers are not accountable to anyone but the fee-paying customer.
This needs to be regulated as it has safety consequences for both the drivers and passengers and revenue and business implications for the platforms.
So far, the platform companies and investors are not the winners. Currently, the car-selling agencies are getting the ultimate benefit from the success of the ride-sharing networks.
Other actors are telecommunication companies, as both users and the drivers need to purchase mobile Internet access to operate.
However, the landscape of rideshare service appears to be evolving for the factors that may disrupt the overall economy of the ride-sharing space.
No matter what kind of business you’re in, you need a brand designer to build a solid brand. Your brand is what makes you unique.
It’s what sets you apart from the competition and lets your customers know who you are and what you’re about. If your brand is Oppo, your brand identity is the “camera phone.”
Designing your brand identity is a key—and because of its strategic approach, it’s not a task you want to tackle on your own. It takes a certain kind of talent, specifically, brand designers to build a brand from the ground up.
If you’re at the very beginning of the branding process, go with a brand designer.
A tale of a brand designer
You may just plan to launch your brand. If you’re not exactly sure the direction you want to take your brand, it is a great way to get input from a talented brand designer.
Role of a Brand designer
So far, the brand designer is to assist in the assessing and defining of a brand. In essence, he takes a company’s mission, purpose, and goals and ensures that it reflects into the copy and visual aspects of a brand.
With that being said, a graphic designer and brand designer are not the same roles. That needs to be clear that you look at what your branding requirements are.
If you need help defining your brand, you should hire a brand designer. This person should have expertise on the topic of branding, copy, and understand design in a way they can incorporate it effectively to all branding components.
However, the main purpose of his job is to assess your brand and create an image for it. He needs to be able to define it in a way that resonates and appeals to your target customer. His role will ensure that your mission and goals reflect on all parts of your brand.
Who is Zulker Naeen?
He is a man behind the brand stories.
Zulker Naeen is a brand designer by profession. He is a communication graduate from the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh.
He started his career as a copywriter, shifted his career as a market researcher later on.
Afterwards, as an individual practitioner, he has gathered a diverse knowledge of market research and brand designing.
His diverse portfolio says he is the smart guy behind four of the noted lubricants brands in Bangladesh.
His portfolios are fast-moving consumer goods, energy and power, automotive, and construction.
Google Zulker Naeen to find his extensive portfolio as a brand designer.
The two-wheeler market in Bangladesh is revving up
with the steadily increasing demand for the two-wheelers in the country.
Bangladesh two-wheeler market is expected to
witness high growth at a CAGR of above 6% in value terms, from 2018 to 2023,
owing to the increasing two-wheeler sales in the country over recent years.
Domestic production has pushed down prices of the
two-wheelers by nearly half.
Back in 2016, a reputed brand bike costs Tk 149,000, now it costs just Tk 97,000. Low prices have increased the demand for two-wheeled vehicles significantly.
The city-dwellers and office goers prefer using
motor-cycles over two-wheelers in a bid to avoid the high congestion.
Two-wheelers are also widely adopted in rural areas
due to the poor road infrastructure.
Economic factors such as high economic growth,
rising population and increasing spending power of the costumers are attracting
the major players in the Bangladesh two-wheeler market.
Bangladesh has turned into a mature market such as
India and China.
The arrival of key players such as Honda, Yamaha who are setting up production facilities in the country is likely to act as a driver for the market in the coming years.
Moreover, increasing interest of women as potential
customers, lower maintenance services and replacement parts as compared to
four-wheelers is expected to drive the growth of the market in the coming
years.
Also, the technological advancements in engine
capacities, the introduction of newer models by the manufacturers and rising
shift towards electrical two-wheelers are expected to drive the growth of the
market in the next five years.
Based on the vehicle type, the two-wheeler segment
leads the market and is expected to maintain its position during the forecast
period, owing to high adoption of two-wheelers due to low-maintenance, easy
availability of finance and popularity among office goers to void traffic
congestion.
Electric two-wheeler segment is expected to grow
due to the rising need for shifting to alternate transportation to control
pollution and conserve fossil fuels.
Key Market Trends of Bangladesh Automotive Engine Oil
The demand for automotive engine oils has surged in the past five years, owing to the rapid growth in the sales of motor vehicles in Bangladesh.
According to the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers, the sales of new passenger vehicles witnessed an increase of nearly 30% in 2016-17, and the growth is expected to continue further, owing to the rising purchasing power of consumers and easier credit availabilities in the recent times.
Bangladesh is the fourth fastest-growing economy worldwide, with GDP of Bangladesh experiencing a continuous rise since the past 5 years, and this is expected to continue during the next five years.
Light motor vehicles and passenger cars are the fastest-growing sectors, also the largest consumer of automotive engine oil in Bangladesh. Lubricants are used in automobiles in the form of engine oil; coolants, brake fluids, and other transmission oils.
During 2013-2017, automotive vehicle sales have increased with an exponential rate, also expected to increase throughout 2019-2024. In 2017, according to the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA), a total of 0.5 million vehicles were registered in Bangladesh.
The rising per capita income of the citizens leads to a rise in the living standards of the people, and thus, the demand for the automobiles is increasing.
Additionally, the sales of high-end cars have witnessed a massive surge in the country lately, with a growth rate of over 15% being recorded during 2015-18.
This, in turn, has spurred the consumption of semi-synthetic and synthetic engine oils in the country in recent times.
All articles by Zulker Naeen are exclusive
From now, all articles by Zulker Naeen are exclusive. Zulker Naeen is an enthusiastic campaigner seeking to development of the engine oil market of Bangladesh.
He observed the growth of this market with his close eyes for the last four years. Recently, he started publishing his observations on this market as market insights.
As an individual campaigner, his portfolio writes the factors behind the market — so that the marketer can update themselves.
His portfolio is neither a self-published media nor an individual brand.
You may get it as a mouthpiece which tries to publish every market insights you need.
Till now, it has published more than 100 articles.
However, the lack of market research and least reporting make
“Bangladesh Engine Oil Market” an unorganized trade.
So, this portfolio moved forward to be a representative of this market for its development.
Thanks to this portfolio that coined the term ‘lubricants shelves of Bangladesh’ to evaluate the current status of an individual brand.
Currently, a dedicated team is involved in research on the existing lubricants shelves of the retailer shops.
There are many enthusiastic those who rely on market development are working together for this portfolio.
As a watchdog, this portfolio is enriched one as has worked a lot like a strategic campaigner of various noted brands in Bangladesh.
It has done with the brand positioning of global brands here.
We know that the role of a campaigner is to achieve change. Being the agent of change, the role of this portfolio is not just preparing the market strategy or writing a report.
As a part of this campaign, Zulker Naeen’s portfolio represents “Bangladesh Engine Oil Market” to update you by publishing market insights, current market trends, and market forecasts.
This portfolio aims to achieve change among every acquaintance of this market.
Key Market Trends of Bangladesh Automotive Lubricants
The demand for automotive Lubricants has surged in the past five years, owing to the rapid growth of motor vehicles sales in Bangladesh.
According to the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers, the sales of new passenger vehicles witnessed an increase of nearly 30% in 2016-17, the growth is expected to continue further.
Light motor vehicles and passenger cars are the fastest-growing sectors, also the largest consumer of automotive lubricants in Bangladesh.
During 2013-2017, automotive vehicle sales have increased with an exponential rate, also expected to increase throughout 2019-2024. In 2017, according to the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority, a total of 0.5 million vehicles were registered in Bangladesh.
The rising per capita income of the citizens leads to a rise in the living standards of the people, and thus, the demand for the automobiles is increasing.
Additionally, the sales of high-end cars have witnessed a massive surge recently, with a growth rate of over 15% being recorded during 2015-18.
This, in turn, has spurred the consumption of semi-synthetic and synthetic engine oils in the country in recent times.
Bangladesh is the fourth fastest-growing economy worldwide, with GDP of Bangladesh experiencing a continuous rise since the past 5 years, and this is expected to continue during the next five years.
From now, all articles by Zulker Naeen are exclusive. Zulker Naeen is an enthusiastic campaigner seeking to development of the engine oil market of Bangladesh.
He observed the growth of this market with his close eyes for the last four years. Recently, he started publishing his observations on this market as market insights.
As an individual campaigner, his portfolio writes the factors behind the market — so that the marketer can update themselves.
His portfolio is neither a self-published media nor an individual brand.
You may get it as a mouthpiece which tries to publish every market insights you need.
Till now, it has published more than 100 articles.
However, the lack of market research and least reporting make
“Bangladesh Engine Oil Market” an unorganized trade.
So, this portfolio moved forward to be a representative of this market for its development.
Thanks to this portfolio that coined the term ‘lubricants shelves of Bangladesh’ to evaluate the current status of an individual brand.
Currently, a dedicated team is involved in research on the existing lubricants shelves of the retailer shops.
There are many enthusiastic those who rely on market development are working together for this portfolio.
As a watchdog, this portfolio is enriched one as has worked a lot like a strategic campaigner of various noted brands in Bangladesh.
It has done with the brand positioning of global brands here.
We know that the role of a campaigner is to achieve change. Being the agent of change, the role of this portfolio is not just preparing the market strategy or writing a report.
As a part of this campaign, Zulker Naeen’s portfolio represents “Bangladesh Engine Oil Market” to update you by publishing market insights, current market trends, and market forecasts.
This portfolio aims to achieve change among every acquaintance of this market.
In our country, the lubricants market is
on steady growth in comparison to other distinct markets.
Not surprisingly, the annual domestic demand for lubricating oils is around 1.75 lakh tons litres, whereas the market value is around Tk5,000cr to Tk6,000cr.
According to the industry insiders, the
annual lubricant demand is expected to reach two lakh tons in the 2019-20
fiscal year.
The annual domestic consumption has got
almost 3% yearly growth, which is on par with India but behind China.
The market holds more than 100 brand
names altogether and its number is increasing.
The demand from the automotive,
construction sector, industrial machinery, and equipment application also
accounts for a major share of the total lubricants driven by end-user sectors.
Additionally, the industrial sector
accounts for 30% of the total lubricant consumption in Bangladesh.
The demand is the highest thanks to the
automotive sector and the agriculture-based economy.
Shortly, the market is expected to
witness steady growth in Bangladesh because of its growing economy.
The growing automotive sector and industrial production have resulted in enhanced demand for lubricants in Bangladesh. In terms of volume, the transportation segment accounts for more than half of the total lubricants market.
In terms of application, the lubricants market has been segregated into automotive, industrial, and marine. Rapid industrialization has boosted the demand for lubricants in various end-use industries.
Expansion of industries such as industrial machinery, automotive, and energy in developing economies is fueling the demand for lubricants and their derivatives such as finished lubricants.
Unregistered vehicles to drop the country’s lube demand
The High
Court Division directed the authorities concerned to ask refuelling stations
not to sell fuel to those vehicles without valid fitness documents on October
23.
It also
ordered the law enforcers to strictly monitor refuelling stations across the country
so that they do not supply fuel to those unfit vehicles.
In turn,
this directive will keep the unregistered vehicles idle in the roads and bus
depots.
Consequently,
the lube market has to receive a significant drop in oil demand in the upcoming
months. Mostly, it may cause the sales drop of the diesel engine oil segment.
People
involved in the transport sector said the number of outdated vehicles has
decreased in recent years.
So far,
the outdated vehicles are the key consumers of the diesel engine oil, also
consumed 45% of total demand for the transport sector.
It is a forecast that, the demand for the engine oil may not as significant like the previous year because of the unexpected flood in this quarter, and the declined prices of rice and paddy recent years.
BRTA
placed a report before the court in July, stating that 4,58,369 vehicles
without valid fitness certificates were on the roads.
Of them,
owners of 89,269 vehicles renewed fitness certificates in the last two months,
the report said.
Of the
total vehicles without fitness certificates, over 2.61 lakh were in Dhaka
division, over 1.19 lakh in Chattogram division, over 26,000 in Rajshahi
division, over 6,000 in Rangpur division, over 15,000 in Khulna division, over
44,000 in Sylhet division and over 5,000 in Barishal division, BRTA submitted
in its report.
However,
the state-run organization has no specific data of how many vehicles among the
4,58,369 got their fitness certificate renewed in the two months.
Around
14.22 lakh vehicles are required to have their fitness certificates renewed
annually.
But the
BRTA data shows that only 5.75 lakh vehicles renewed their fitness certificates
in the last fiscal year.
Around
1.40 lakh received fitness clearances in the first three months of the current
fiscal year.
There are
several lakh unregistered vehicles in the country.
BRTA also
prayed for a directive to the refuelling stations to stop selling fuels to the
owners of unfit vehicles.
Lubricants Shelf, as a concept, is applied to review the
status of an engine oil brand in the market. We come up with this term, which
is a framework to understand the acceptance of existing oil brands.
Following that framework, we have observed the shelves
of the country’s noted retailer shops and tried to find the sustainability of
brands.
We know the popular brands secure its shelves
automatically, but the fate of the rising brands is unlike. And it is very
uncertain for the rising brands.
The rising brands have to lose 5% of its shelves equally
in the retailer shops, as new brands are trying to take those spaces.
We know, the engine oil trade has found an ambiguous
one.
And the situation is being degraded while too many
brands are in the same battle to secure the market share.
We have observed these factors behind this trade
earlier. Also, the market insiders think lack of govt. intervention on the
policy to monitor this trade make this market uncontrolled one.
The situation is being tough for the entire trade. It is
clear, the engine oil brands with their shelves are struggling to grip their
market shares.
Recently, market insiders also showed their concern over
the brands while discussing the lubricants shelves.
Even, the existing trademark brands are losing their shelves
too.
Many recognized brands are facing difficulties, as the market is already flooded with more than 100 brands.
The growing automotive sector and industrial production have resulted in enhanced demand for lubricants in Bangladesh. In terms of volume, the transportation segment accounts for more than half of the total lubricants market.
In terms of application, the lubricants market has
been segregated into automotive, industrial, and marine. Rapid
industrialization has boosted the demand for lubricants in various end-use
industries.
Expansion of industries such as industrial machinery, automotive, and energy in developing economies is fueling the demand for lubricants and their derivatives such as finished lubricants.
We provide a detailed appraisal of the finished automotive and industrial lubricants industry. Our portfolio identifies market opportunities and challenges for lubricant suppliers, distributors, lubricant additive suppliers, and base stock manufacturers.
TRIAX premium lubricants brand, with FLEET SUPREME ESP 15W 40, claimed that the latest technology has enriched the heavy-duty engine oil segment. The claim says It offers the latest in heavy-duty diesel specifications, combined with state-of-the-art tested and true anti-wear technology.
Fleet Supreme 15W40 is full synthetic lubricants developed to comply with the latest diesel engine OEM requirements, both North American and European UHPD engines requiring Euro 5 and Euro 5 low SAPS engine oils.
As usual, its high-efficiency detergent system and high retention TBN keep the engine ultra-clean and prevent corrosion, acid and maximize overall engine protection to the highest degree.
Another privilege, it has used CRL (Continuously Regenerative Layering) technology with Moly and Boron compounds to form an extremely resilient protective shell on all hot section engine parts, providing extreme wear protection, and heat dissipation.
TURBO-CHARGER PROTECTION – It offers unmatched turbo-charged protection. The high oxidation resistance of the oil and its CRP composition prevents oil burning up inside the turbocharger once the vehicle has been turned off.
UNPARALLELED 40% IMPROVEMENT IN SLUDGE / ENGINE DEPOSITS – Unique dispersal and detergent technology exceed CAT ECF-3 performance by ~40% in deposit control in CAT C13 Engine Test.
EXTENDED DRAIN INTERVALS – It delivers outstanding drain intervals, 80,000 miles or more with oil analysis and proper maintenance, in class 8 transport trucks and triple the drain intervals of regular lubricants for diesel pickup trucks.
FORD DIESEL SPECIFICATION – Both in 10W-30 and 15W-40 grades exceed the Ford required specification for CK-4 lubricants – FORD WSS-M2C171-F1.
It is designed to be fully backwards compatible with CJ-4 and CI-4 plus applications. It is also recommended for 2016 and newer heavy-duty diesel engines. It also recommended for the latest diesel engines from Volvo, Renault, Ford, Caterpillar, and UHPD. It also includes heavy on-road transportation, off-road, quarrying, mining including server service heavy duty.
Michael Hal satisfied with its oil performance when he first used it on his F250, also derived him to switch all of their semi-trucks on it. He has been now using this oil in my trucks for about a year and a half.
“I had an instant startup at -20F freezing temperature. After being left outside all night so great cold start performance, haven’t gotten that with other 15W40 oils. For my F250, it had analyzed at 10k and then 15k miles. I changed the oil at 15250 miles even through Polaris labs came back with green across the board.”
Talking on its performance, he said, additive depletion was less than 15-20% vs fresh oil, which is very good.
Fleet Ultra ESP 15W-40
“Our highway semis are
regularly run 75-90k miles without a bypass filter. I started them out at 45k
drain then gradually increased to the current level.”
Also, the viscosity stays within the spec range of a 15W-40 all the way through, doesn’t get thicker or thinner. This saves us additional cash as we don’t need to use oil viscosity stabilizers.
When we used other brands of oil, after about 30k miles the viscosity would drop and we had to use Lucas oil stabilizers to “thicken it up”.
John Pedro has replaced the previous oil for his Ram 2500. He said, “I used Triax 15W40 and found a noticeable change. The truck ran smoother and the engine was quieter even my wife noticed the difference.”
Another user Davis said, “Triax has given me an additional quantity, which is more than made up for the previous order that leaked.”
Juan Garza said, “I use on my semi-truck, DD15 engine and I have to say of all the different oils I’ve used over the years this is the best, I run about 12k to 15k miles a month and interval change at about 40k miles on oil, oil looks really good coming out probably can add another 20k to it if I wanted too, performance I get better fuel mileage its quieter and smoother, this is the oil I’m going to use from now on.”
Celia Martinez shared his experiences too, “Immediately, just after using Triax Fleet Supreme, the truck idled better and quieter within minutes. Fuel mileage has increased 1.5-2.0 miles per gallon on long trips from Arizona to California.”
The global lubricants market was expected to be worth $162.3 billion by 2019, according to a report by a market research firm, Markets and Markets. It was valued at about $90billion in 2016.
This growth was projected on the back of the rising number of on-road vehicles and growing transportation, and logistics industry.
Industrialization and rapid infrastructure across the developing world are considered to be the key drivers of lubricant growth, adds the report.
Rapid industrialization has boosted the demand for lubricants in various end-use industries. Industrial machinery, automotive, and energy in developing economies are fuelling the demand for finished lubricants.
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Asia-Pacific was the fastest-growing lubricants market, with an annual growth rate of 3% between 2014 and 2019.
The Middle East and Africa are the regions that drove the lubricants materials market. China, India, South Africa, Brazil and Iran are the next growing end-user industries.
The growing automotive sector and industrial production have resulted in enhanced demand for lubricants.
Transportation segment accounts for nearly 57% of the total lubricants market.
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market.
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done with the brand positioning of global brands in this uncontrolled market.
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As a
watchdog, this portfolio has coined the term ‘lubricants shelves of Bangladesh’
to publish different insights.
Currently,
a dedicated team is conducting various researches on this concept.
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portfolio exclusively publishes market insights, current market trends, and
market forecasts by nature.
Also, it publishes articles on the automotive sector.
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So far, those we are engaged in engine oil trade is uttering
the market is growing. The engine oil market is growing in terms of
consumption. But as a market observer, we would like to argue with this
statement you all in some extends.
Let’s talk a brief about the possible market size before.
Last year, the demand for total engine oil was around
160,000 tonnes. On a claim, the market growth is nearly 15% during the last
three years.
The market has received a yearly 5% growth on an average during the last decade. The consumption of engine oil is likely to be around 165,000 tonnes for the year 2019, market insiders said.
Since 2009, the retail market of Tk 1,000 crore is now expected to be around Tk 3,000 crore this year, the growth analysis forecasted.
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Till now, it has published more than 100 articles.
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He observed the growth of this market with his close eyes for the last four years. Recently, he started publishing his observations on this market as market insights.
As an individual campaigner, his portfolio writes the factors behind the market — so that the marketer can update themselves.
His portfolio is neither a self-published media nor an individual brand.
You may get it as a mouthpiece which tries to publish every market insights you need.
Till now, it has published more than 100 articles.
However, the lack of market research and least reporting make “Bangladesh Engine Oil Market” an unorganized trade.
So, this portfolio moved forward to be a representative of this market for its development.
Thanks to this portfolio that coined the term ‘lubricants shelves of Bangladesh’ to evaluate the current status of an individual brand.
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There are many enthusiastic those who rely on market development are working together for this portfolio.
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It has done with the brand positioning of global brands here.
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A forecast, Bangladesh’s tyre market will receive at around
9% annual growth until 2020, on the back of thriving automobile sales, ongoing
improvements in public infrastructure, and growth-oriented government policies.
The country’s annual tyre sales are close to Tk 5,000 crore
and two-wheeler, light automotive, commercial vehicle tyres account for the
majority of the sales, according to industry insiders.
The market size of automotive tyres reached Tk 4,750 crore
last year, up from about Tk 4,000 crore in 2017, Tk 3,000 crore in 2016, and Tk
1,500 crore in 2015, according to market players.
The commercial vehicle tyre segment dominates the industry
with the market size standing at Tk 3,750 crore. At least 1.5 lakh pieces of
commercial vehicle tyres were sold in 2018.
Besides, 1 lakh pieces of tyres used in private cars were
sold last year amounting to Tk 1,000 crore, said Mohammed Shahidul Islam, chairman
of HNS, an importer of Korean Hankook tyre brand.
Two-wheeler is another prevailing tyre segment. Despite
rising automobile sales, the replacement segment continues to lead the market
too.
On the other hand, rural-based three-wheeler vehicles also
grabbed a big chunk of the market.
Dhaka held a significant majority market share and hence
emerged as the leading region in terms of tyre sales across Bangladesh.
Bangladesh now has emerged as a developing country, offering
significant growth opportunities across diverse industry segments including
automotive.
However, Bangladesh largely lacks in tyre manufacturing
setups, which leads to tyre imports from other countries like China, India,
Indonesia, Thailand and Japan due to a scarcity of raw materials, a lack of
native tyre production units as well as skilled labour.
Bangladesh spends around Tk 1,000 crore to import more than
15 lakh pieces of tyres a year mainly from India, Japan and China, according to
importers, distributors and sellers.
“The tyre market has been growing very fast for the last 10
years riding on the back of an increasing number of commercial vehicles,” said
Nazrul Islam, general manager of Veloxo Trading Ltd, the sole importer of
Indian tyre MRF.
In the commercial vehicle tyre segment, the MRF’s market
share is 30%. Apollo controls 5% of the segment, Birla 10%, CEAT 3%, and
Hankook 1%. The rest 51% is controlled by non-branded Chinese
tyres.
In the private car tyre segment, the combined share of
Yokohama, Bridgestone and Toyo and Dunlop stand at about 70%. Maxxis owns 20%
share, Hankook 2%, and non-branded Chinese tyres the rest 8%.
There have been more than 20 brands along with the local
ones include Gazi Group, Apex Husain, Meghna Group and Rupsha Tyres. However,
available local production only covers tyres for light trucks, microbuses,
motorcycles, autorickshaws and easy bikes.
However, the scenario is expected to witness a paradigm
shift in the coming years as several global leading tyre companies are gearing
to set up manufacturing units in the country.
This reflects an opportunity for local companies to set up
an indigenous manufacturing base in Bangladesh and also enables foreign players
to set up their localized production facilities to capture a significant
market.
Few global tyre giants have started their
manufacturing units on a small scale.
Introduction of ride-sharing services in Dhaka in recent
years has contributed a lot to a rise in demand for motorbikes.
Due to the absence of proper traffic management and adequate
public transport facilities, Dhaka city dwellers continue to endure traffic
jams.
Traffic congestion, according to the World Bank, eats up 3.2 million working hours per day in Dhaka and average traffic speed has dropped from 21kmph to 7kmph in the last 10 years.
With the rise of traffic congestion in Dhaka, the number of
ride-sharing services involving bikes also saw a gradual rise in the last three
years.
Terming introduction of ride-sharing service as one of the
main reasons behind the influx of motorbikes in the city.
According to Bangladesh Road Transport Authority, total
1,04,064 motorcycles were registered in Dhaka in 2018 while the number was
75,251 in 2017 and 53,738 in 2016.
However, motorbike and ride-sharing services have brought
some relief to this situation. It has also created employment opportunities for
motorcycle riders.
Ride-sharing services were launched in 2015, and over two dozen service providers are now available in the city.
Last year, the cabinet approved the “Ride-sharing Service
Guidelines 2017” to bring the companies under regulation.
Overview: Bangladesh Motorcycle Industry
Here the motorcycle industry is growing with exponential
growth.
Besides faster mobility, rising income, a steady growth of
the economy and favourable government policies that encourage local production
are contributing to this prosperous market.
“The motorcycle market is estimated to sell approximately 6
lakh units by the end of 2019,” informs Subrata Ranjan Das, Executive Director,
ACI Motors Ltd.
Market insiders said around 5 lakh motorcycles were sold in
FY2018-19, up 25% from 4 lakh a year ago. It means nearly 1,500 motorcycles are
being purchased every day.
Assuming the price of a motorbike is Tk 100,000 on average, total market size in monetary terms would be around Tk 5,000 crore, which is almost equivalent to the four-wheeler market.
This growing demand has encouraged market players to set up
either manufacturing facilities or assembling plants to grab the market share.
Around 80% of motorcycles running in the country have either
been locally manufactured or assembled.
Brands like Bajaj, TVS and Hero are dominating in the pace,
but other players such as Runner, Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki and Mahindra are also
making a mark.
Sector players said annual sales would cross 15 lakh units
by 2025.
Vehicle tracking system is an opportunity in Bangladesh
Most of us spend a huge amount of money in managing transportation. Every day you meet with unexpected incidents which highlight the importance of safe transportation. With the introduction of the vehicle tracking system, you can keep an eye over your fleet.
You can also receive alerts and take appropriate action in situations where drivers unintentionally unplug the tracker. This will help you to have complete control over the system.
The vehicle tracking system is a combination of technologies to know the real-time position of a vehicle or to log a history of where a vehicle has been. This system is being used for stolen vehicle recovery strategies mostly.
It also includes fleet management, tracking various assets, management of service personnel, mobile sales and surveillance.
The private sector has already adopted the vehicle tracking system for overall fleet management and to improve operational efficiency.
Why the use of vehicle tracking system is on the rise?
The number of passenger cars and commercial vehicles is on the rise. So, the vehicle tracking system is eyeing growth in this disputed market.
The number of motorcycles is also growing. The market size would grow to 10 lakh units within three to four years.
Around 10% of passenger cars are using the vehicle tracking system in Dhaka. And it is growing.
Companies have already adopted vehicle tracking as a part of its fleet management, which is growing significantly.
In our country too, the vehicle tracking market is estimated to foster over owing to rising safety and security awareness, particularly in the corporate sector.
Why vehicle tracking is an opportunity?
Currently, the market size for reconditioned cars is around Tk 5,000 cr. with a yearly 15% to 20% growth.
The modified hybrid cars and ride-sharing services are eyeing growth.
And, hybrid car accounts for 12% of the total reconditioned cars.
Significantly, the ride-sharing industry has made up around 23% of the transportation and has barely made a dent in the overall automotive industry.
Accordingly, a synergy between telecommunications and information technology has introduced the next generation solutions, enabling the improved efficiency in the transportation system.
Additionally, the sales of commercial vehicles in Bangladesh, the vehicle tracking market will gain higher momentum.
Commercial vehicles grew 15% every year over the last decade.
The government has the opportunity to play a crucial part in boosting the market, with its pipeline projects of equipping public transports system with Vehicle tracking via GPS.
Why reconditioned car market will rise in Bangladesh
Bangladesh
is mainly dependent on reconditioned cars as such cars are economically viable
for most of the middle class.
Is
this only reason, that reconditioned car will lead the pace with continuous
growth?
Currently, the market size for reconditioned cars is around Tk. 3,750 crores. The size of the market is increasing by 4% every year, according to the Bangladesh Reconditioned Vehicles Importers’ and Dealers’ Association (Barvida).
What
are the advantages of reconditioned cars compared to brand new ones?
Firstly,
around 90% of reconditioned cars are imported from Japan. A car which has
already been used in Japan has better quality and is proven to be strong.
“The
car now we are importing from Japan is the home car. These cars are
trouble-free to maintain,” said Habib Ullah Dawn, president of the Bangladesh
Reconditioned Vehicles Importers’ and Dealers’ Association
(Barvida).
Secondly,
reconditioned cars provide the same facilities as a new car but at a much lower
price.
Finally,
the resale value of a reconditioned car is comparatively higher than that of a
brand-new car.
That
is why around 90% of car users prefer reconditioned cars in Bangladesh.
People
think a recon car causes more pollution than the brand-new car. Is it true at
all?
Habib
Ullah Dawn said, “We mostly imports reconditioned cars from Japan, which is around
95% of the total reconditioned car. Japanese are more concern about pollution
and they put the anti-pollution device into our cars to reduce pollution.”
“We
have already compared a five-year-old Japanese reconditioned and brand-new
neighbouring car. It has proven that the neighbouring brand new cars pollute
environment more than the reconditioned one,” he added.
The
public demand is growing rapidly. This coupled with the lack of proper
public transportation has seen a massive spike in the sale of reconditioned,
cost-effective cars in Bangladesh.
Moreover,
the reconditioned car market has considered as a growing industry, also
generates thousands of crores of revenue for the government each year.
On
behalf of the market, the association, Barvida has paid about 3730 crore Taka
as a return last year.
Bicycle is
one of our light engineering export industry contributing about 0.24% to total
export.
It is about
12% of the country’s total engineering exports. On average, about 1 million
bicycles are exported per year.
The
available report claims, Bangladesh is now the 3rd largest non-EU exporter of
bicycles to the EU and the 8th largest exporter globally.
How
Bangladesh entered into this opportunistic market?
This
success, recent growth is linked to GSP protection in exporting to the EU and
penalty imposed on China, the world’s largest bicycle manufacturer.
The
imposition of anti-dumping on China 48.5% now, by the European Bicycle
Manufacturing Association, has created that opportunity for Bangladesh to enter
the EU market.
Availability
of low wage labour has given Bangladesh a competitive edge over other countries
such as China, Taiwan, and Europe in manufacturing bicycles.
Currently,
Bangladesh export bicycles to 18 countries, mostly to the European Union (EU)
market especially UK, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Greece, Ireland, Belgium,
Denmark, Australia, Portugal, Russia, and India.
This industry
is now comprised of three major active manufacturers and two of them are
export-oriented only. However, there are several assemblers and manufacturers
of parts and spares.
Meghna Group
is the leading at this pace. Alita Bangladesh, a Taiwan based company is the
second-largest exporters. Pran– RFL Group is the latest entry more focused on
the local demand.
We have
experienced steady growth in exporting bicycles; however, we cannot compete
with their foreign competitors as we have to import the majority of the raw
materials.
How can Bangladesh’s bicycle industry grow more?
Bicycle is
an emerging export sector with a huge potential in the global market which is
expected to grow to $34.9 billion by 2022.
We can
easily increase our market share by taking domestic preparations given the
scope in the Western market. The investors need supports, especially conducive
environment for the growth of the sector.
Also, we
need to focus on the bottlenecks that affect the competitiveness of the
bicycles sector.
We should
focus on is the export-oriented original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). We know, the production cost in the
export-oriented OEMs is dominated by parts and components, most of which are
imported.
We should
build a solid link with the domestic market too as it is growing.
By
activating these critical policy levers and attracting investment, and
gradually reducing the quality gap between the domestic and export markets, we
could see a positive impact on exports and employment in our bicycle
sector.
BPC to treble the country’s crude oil refining capacity
Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation is expected to treble the country’s crude oil refining capacity to 4.5 million tonnes from the existing 1.5 million tonnes.
The consortium led by Technip, the country’s sole refinery, having the crude oil refinery capacity of 1.5 Mtpa in port city Chattogram.
Now, Sinopec is going to team up with French company Technip to jointly build a new 3.0 million tonnes per year capacity crude oil refinery worth US$1.15 billion.
Currently, Bangladesh imports annually around 7.50 million tonnes of crude and refined petroleum products combined to meet local demand.
Once implemented, the new refinery could help the country save $220 million every year. The refinery could enable the country to process any kind of crude oil and it might put Bangladesh on the path to becoming a refined petroleum product exporting country.
BPC already purchased land from the Ministry of Industries for Tk 2.30 billion for the refinery.
Sinopec has already completed preliminary negotiations with Technip to build a consortium for the construction of the proposed refinery, according to Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC).
Technip already submitted the necessary technical and financial documents to build the refinery.
Nepal has already shown interest to import refined petroleum products from Bangladesh and agreed to ink a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in this regard.
Surplus finished petroleum products can be exported to Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Myanmar and the north-eastern parts of India as well.
Earlier, the crude oil refinery project with of 1.5 Mtpa capacity was planned in 2015. An MOU between BPC and Technip was inked on November 11, 2015. But it did not get pace due to non-assurance of funding.
The BPC later decided to build it with own fund having support from the government to give momentum to the project works.
Later, the BPC on January 18, 2017, assigned Technip to carry out the front-end engineering and design (FEED) for the proposed refinery at a cost of US$ 32.10 million.
Technip has submitted the final FEED over the refinery project, which has also been reviewed and accepted by the BPC.
Sinopec has forecasted on the growing lubricants market and the opportunity to be a refined petroleum product exporting country in Bangladesh.
Zulker Naeen is a campaigner of Bangladesh Lubricants Market
Zulker Naeen is an enthusiastic campaigner seeking to development of the lubricants market of Bangladesh.
He has observed this growing market closely for the last
four years. Recently, he started publishing his observations on this market as
market insights.
As an individual campaigner, his portfolio writes the
factors behind the market — so that the marketer can update themselves.
Apparently, his portfolio is neither a self-published media nor an individual brand.
Here, you may get it as a mouthpiece which tries to publish every market insights you really need.
Zulker Naeen is an enthusiastic Market Researcher
Till now, it has published more than 100 articles.
However, the lack of market research and least reporting make “Bangladesh Lubricants Market” an unorganized trade.
That is why this portfolio moved forward to be a
representative of this market for its development.
So, thanks to this portfolio that coined the term ‘lubricants shelves of Bangladesh’ to evaluate the current status of an individual brand.
Currently, a dedicated team is involved in research on the
existing lubricants shelves of the retailer shops.
So far, there are many enthusiastic those who rely on market development are working together for this portfolio.
As a watchdog, this portfolio is a rich one as has worked a lot like a strategic campaigner of various noted brands in Bangladesh.
Also, It has done with the brand positioning of global brands here.
Moreover, we know that the role of a campaigner is to achieve change. Being the agent of change, the role of this portfolio is not just preparing the market strategy or writing a report.
As a part of this campaign, Zulker Naeen’s portfolio represents “Bangladesh Lubricants Market” to update you by publishing market insights, current market trends, and market forecasts.
Consequently, as a part of this campaign, the aim of this portfolio is to achieve change among every acquaintance of this market.
Bangladesh Motorcycle Market has posted 24% year-on-year
growth and this market would grow about 30% in 2019.
This market is set to be around 6 lakh units by the end of
2019 because of price cuts, increasing purchasing capacity and thrust for
faster mobility.
The market began to expand fast since fiscal 2016-17. The
reduction in supplementary duty on motorcycle parts import has reduced the
overall cost of manufacturing motorcycle, cutting down the price of locally
manufactured motorcycles in Bangladesh.
The popularity of
ride-sharing apps is another catalyst to this growth.
The government also framed the National Motorcycle Industry
Development Policy 2018 with a view to diversifying the country’s manufacturing
and exports and creating jobs.
This policy is to increase manufacturing of motorcycle in
Bangladesh to 0.5 million by 2021.
According to ACI Motors, which markets the Yamaha-branded
two-wheelers, about 4.80 lakh units of bikes were sold in 2018.
The highest growth took place in the 150cc segment, followed
by 110cc ones.
Overall, the market is expected to be close to 6 lakh units
by the end of 2019.
The reason for the optimism is that motorcycles became more
affordable thanks to local manufacturing by most of the brands.
The annual market size would grow to 10 lakh units within
three to four years.
The government has set a target to increase the capacity of
yearly motorcycle production to 1 million in 2027 which will also create
employment opportunities for 15 lakh people.
The lack of vendor development for manufacturing required
components and supply of those to manufacturers are the key restrains to this
growth.
Indian brands are a real threat for local manufacturers
because Indian brands hold lions’ share of the market.
As the manufacturing cost of the motorcycle is reduced and
demand growing fast, foreign brands have a strong motive to establish the plant
in Bangladesh which will allow customers to have a quality motorcycle with
lower price.
The industry is yet to reach full potential. Adequate
infrastructure and policy continuation by the government is necessary for the
sector.
BS
VI norms may drive the leading motorcycle manufacturer of India to export the
existing stock of BS 4 two-wheelers to neighbouring countries.
BS
VI emission norms, while a step in the right direction for dealing with India’s
gravely serious pollution problem, has faced a lot of challenges for automakers
in India.
While
motorcycle manufacturers contend with the challenge of upgrading the high cost
of upgrading their diesel engines, two-wheeler manufacturers also have some
challenges to deal with.
To
comply with BS VI, the leading motorcycle manufacturers had to hike their
investments to upgrade existing models.
The
number of product launches has declined in the past year.
Firms
are looking at products that won’t need many changes before the new norms take
effect.
Two-
and four-wheeler makers have pulled capacity expansion plans, as they expect
demand to fall.
Maruti
Suzuki India Ltd and Hero MotoCorp Ltd have been impacted the most, given that
their product portfolio is large compared to the competition.
Among
other things, they have to deal with their massive inventories of BS IV models
and word has it that Hero MotoCorp may have found a resolution — exports.
Reports
claim that the largest two-wheeler manufacturer in India is contemplating
exporting its existing stock of BS 4 two-wheelers to neighbouring countries,
including Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh, before BS VI norms kick in on 1
April 2020.
Now,
more than 1,000 motorcycles are being sold daily. It was just half of the daily
sales five years ago, according to data collected from industry insiders.
The
motorcycle population has grown 17 times faster than the passenger cars, driven
mainly by its rising demand.
Also,
operators predict that the market would grow many folds in the next two-three
years mostly because of the favourable policy and tariff structure that
encourages assembling, leading to eventual manufacturing.
The
BS IV stocks can reportedly be sold in the aforementioned countries with ease –
a better option as compared to the prospect of the unsold stock in India
eventually being scrapped.
The
company is of the opinion that exporting vehicles will enable it to relieve its
existing inventory in the domestic market.
Besides
helping with the inventory, this strategy will allow Hero to improve exports
revenue as the demand and sales in India continue to observe a slump.
Hero
MotoCorp exported over 2x units in May as compared to its exports in April.
The
company now intends to further increase exports from the current 3% to 10% over
the next few years.
BS
IV standards were implemented with the goal of ensuring that these vehicles
will generally be no more polluting than BS VI four-wheeled gasoline passenger
vehicles.
On
19 Feb 2016, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways issued a draft
notification of Bharat Stage (BS) VI emission standards.
Prospect on Bangladesh Industrial Lubricants Market
Globally, Asia Pacific accounts
for the largest market for industrial lubricants due to the increased demand
from the growing end-users’ sectors such as energy/power and manufacturing.
Especially India, China,
Indonesia and Japan are the key markets.
Growing industrialization coupled
with the ever-increasing population drives the regional market growth.
In the Asia Pacific economies
comprised of 45 countries, Bangladesh has been steadily building its economic
strength and is now emerging as an attractive frontier growth market.
This presents a sizeable
opportunity for organizations seeking to expand their global footprint and
further establish a presence in the South Asia region.
According to the Asian
Development Bank, Bangladesh has registered the fastest growth rate in the Asia
Pacific.
Asian Development Outlook
predicted that the growth will be 8% in the FY2019 and FY2020, terming it a new
record.
It is predicted that Bangladesh
will continue to be the fastest growing economy in the Asia-Pacific.
In recent years, Bangladesh
industrial lubricants market has grown at a rapid pace. This industrial sector
accounts for around 30% of the total lubricant consumption in Bangladesh.
With an estimated annual
consumption of around 45,000 tonnes in 2018 that is projected to reach the
50,000 tonnes mark by 2020.
The growth of the power sector
has got exposed recently because of the national agenda, which has also
highlighted the industrial lubricants market.
It is not just in the power
sector, but there is potential for an overall very good future for Bangladesh.
The demand from the industrial
machinery and equipment application also accounts for a major market share and
is driven by the power, manufacturing, logistics, automotive manufacturing, and
others.
Cement, steel and fertilizer
industries also consume a good amount of lubricants. The proportion of
lubricant used by the industrial sector is expected to increase even more in
the future as industries grow and the demand for lubricant to be used in this
sector increases.
This market is categorized by
hydraulic lubricants, compressor lubricants, gear lubricants, metalworking
fluids and others types, and by the end-user, the categories are automotive,
manufacturing, heavy- industries, power generation and others.
Last 5 years, the consumption of
industrial lubricants oil has increased exponentially. Now, this sector
accounts for 30% of the total lubricants consumption in Bangladesh.
Like China and India, increasing
product manufacturers focus on setting up production facilities in Bangladesh
on account of low initial investment and minimum labour charges, has opened
this market.
Additionally, the regional market
is comparatively irregulated, which shall be eventually fueling metalworking
fluid demand across the region in the coming years.
However, metalworking fluid
segment is an insignificant one, include a range of oils and other liquids that
are used for lubricating or cooling metallic workpieces during industrial
procedures such as machining, grinding, forging, stamping, and milling.
As metalworking fluids are used across a spectrum of manufacturing processes to cool or lubricate workpieces when they are being machined, they play a critical role in machining.
With the rapid growth in manufacturing activities in Bangladesh, the metalworking fluid industry is expected to ride the tide in the near future.
The auto sector would be another
driver of metalworking fluid growth in the country.
Few auto manufacturing industries
have already set up. More auto component production unit may run in Bangladesh.
The demand is expected to be
driven by the future automotive sector for which the metalworking fluids are
used during the manufacturing of automotive parts and other equipment.
Some other sectors are also
adding to the demand rise.
The existing demand for
metalworking fluids has been segmented based on end-use industry into transport
equipment, primary ferrous, primary non-ferrous, machinery and metal
fabrication industry.
The main industries linked with
the assembling process and fabricated metal industries.
Metalworking fluids are segmented
into four different product types, namely, removal fluids, forming fluids,
protection fluids, and quenching fluids.
Removal fluids are currently
dominating the existing market share and the dominance will continue due to the
high use of coolants, cutting fluids, and grinding fluids during the various
machine processes in manufacturing.
Future growth of the metal forming
fluids depends on the growing steel industries in the coming years.
Bangladesh industrial lubricants market is growing at a
rapid pace.
Now, the industrial lubricant is the third-largest market
after mineral-based lubricants markets and automotive lubricants market.
The growth of the power sector has got exposed recently
because of the national agenda, which has highlighted the industrial lubricants
market most.
Cement, steel and fertilizer industries also consume a good
amount of lubricants. The proportion of lubricant used by the industrial sector
is expected to increase even more in the future as industries grow and the
demand for lubricant to be used in this sector increases.
Also, the growing industrial sector requires a greater
import of efficient machinery to be used in the factories.
The demand from the industrial machinery and equipment
application also accounts for a major market share and is driven by the
end-user sectors such as power, manufacturing, logistics, automotive
manufacturing, and others.
It is not just in the power sector, but there is potential
for an overall very good future for Bangladesh.
With an estimated annual consumption of around 20 million
litres in 2018 that is projected to reach the 25 million litres mark by 2020.
Lubricants consumption by the industrial sector has
increased significantly in the last 5 years. This industrial sector accounts
for around 30% of the total lubricant consumption in Bangladesh.
This market is categorized by hydraulic lubricants,
compressor lubricants, gear lubricants, metalworking fluids and others types,
and by the end-user, the categories are automotive, manufacturing, heavy-
industries, power generation and others.
The market trends substantiating the regional market growth
include rapid urbanization, industrialization and the increasing consumption of
the product in the industrial sector.
However, Bangladesh has been steadily building its economic
strength and is now emerging as an attractive frontier growth market in South
Asia.
According to the Asian Development Bank, Bangladesh has
registered the fastest growth rate in the Asia-Pacific economies comprised of
45 countries.
Bangladesh Lubricants Market
Research Report Forecast 2019-2024 has outlined the industry with the growing
applications and industry chain structure.
This market is expected to register
a CAGR of approximately 2.80% during the forecast period, 2019-2024.
The major factor driving the market
studied is the continuous rise of construction activities in the country likely
to drive the consumption of lubricants through the forecast period.
The construction activities
accounted for a value of BDT 7,359.5 million in 2017-2018, witnessing an
increase from BDT 6,659.1 million in 2016-2017.
In recent years, the construction
sector’s contribution rose to 7.5% of total GDP in the 2017-2018 fiscal year from
7.36% in the 2016-2017 fiscal year.
Growing demand for engine oil
The demand for engine oils in
Bangladesh has been rising steadily since the past five years, owing to the
rapid growth in the sales of motor vehicles in the country.
Increase in the demand for automotive
vehicles
Light motor vehicles and passenger
cars are the fastest growing sectors, and they are also the largest consumer of
lubricants in Bangladesh. Lubricants are used in automobiles in the form of
engine oil, coolants brake oil, and other transmission oils.
The sales of the automotive vehicle
have increased rapidly over a period of 2013-2017 and are expected to increase
over the period of 2019-2024.
In 2017, according to the Bangladesh
Road Transport Authority (BRTA), a total of 0.5 million vehicles were
registered in Bangladesh.
Growing sales of new passenger
vehicles
The sales of new passenger vehicles
witnessed an increase of nearly 30% in 2016-17 (according to the International
Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers), and the growth is expected to
continue further.
The per capita income of the
citizens of Bangladesh is increasing steadily, in turn, leading to a rise in
the living standards of the people, and thus, the demand for the automobiles is
increasing.
Also, the sales of high-end cars
have witnessed a massive surge in the country lately, with a growth rate of
over 15% being recorded during 2015-18.
This, in turn, has spurred the
consumption of semi-synthetic and synthetic engine oils in the country in
recent times.
According to the World Bank Business
report, High price of synthetic lubricants is expected to hinder the growth of
the market to some extent.
Others
Additionally, the sectors, such as
metalworking and construction, are also flourishing, which are supporting the
increase in the demand for lubricants during the study period.
Why brand value works less in Bangladesh Engine Oil Market?
In Bangladesh, brand value works less in the engine oil market, mostly in the regular trade, like agricultural needs, outdated vehicles and transports, and poor types of machinery.
The regular trade of these segments holds a major market share of the engine oil.
As a trade of the techno-commercial product, most companies had failed to create their brand value over the popular brands.
By nature, the companies are the authorized and exclusive distributors of the various trademark brands. We found they keep this trade as limited to the strategy in terms of pricing, and regular distribution policy rather than creating a brand engagement to the end users.
The trade always follows either the distribution-based or retailer-based marketing policy.
The conventional way of product marketing, agricultural-based oil demand, and the lack of awareness among the end-users are the key reasons too.
The market is growing to meet the demand from the increased motorization, industrial machinery and equipment application, driven by the power, manufacturing, logistics, automotive manufacturing, and others.
Now the distributors have many options to play with the existing brands in this saturated market. Every day they welcome the company representatives.
More than 100 brands and local oil trading companies exist in Bangladesh. So a market with numerous brands which is surprising, even many countries don’t allow many brands to exist.
That is why 65% of the market share belongs to several brands those are the various local and imported brands. And their individual market share is untraceable.
And it is the only country, where it is very easy to start importing brands from any corner of the world.
An open market economy always allows product brands to enter in any trade to grab the market share.
However, the market players should concentrate on the overall market scenario to regulate it to make it business- friendly for the future. The more open this market, more unregulated market it is.
Construction Lubricants Market is Growing in Bangladesh
Growing construction activities are to drive the overall consumption of construction lubricants in Bangladesh during the forecast period.
Bangladesh is the fourth fastest growing economy worldwide, with GDP of Bangladesh experiencing a continuous rise since the past 5 years, and this is expected to continue during the next five years.
The domestic and foreign investments in the construction industry have been consistently growing over the past decade in the region, which is fueling the growth of the construction lubricants market.
The Bangladesh lubricants market is expected to register a CAGR of 3.01% over the forecast period, 2019-2024. The major factor which is driving the market studied is the increasing construction activities in the country.
In recent years, the construction activities in Bangladesh are increasing, owing to the growing per capita income and rising living standard of the consumers in the country.
Major economies, like China, India, Japan, Korea, and the United States are keen to invest in the infrastructure sector of Bangladesh, owing to its good land to water connectivity, port operations, and other factors leading Bangladesh to be a strategic location to carry out business.
According to the World Bank Business report, Bangladesh has improved its ranking in terms of ease of doing business in the construction sector.
The construction activities accounted for a value of BDT 7,359.5 million in 2017-2018 (~USD 86.93 million), witnessing an increase from BDT 6,659.1 million (~USD78.66 million) in 2016-2017.
In recent years, the contribution of the construction sector towards the country’s GDP has been rising at a significant rate. Construction sector’s contribution rose to 7.5% of total GDP in the 2017-2018 fiscal year from 7.36% in the 2016-2017 fiscal year.
Thus, the growing construction activities in the country are likely to drive the consumption of lubricants through the forecast period.
Even, the global construction lubricants market is projected to reach USD 15.64 billion by 2022, at a CAGR of 4.37% during the forecast period.
Heavy-duty industrial applications to drive construction lubricants
Construction lubricants are a type of lubricants used to reduce friction between moving parts or surfaces and to enhance the efficiency of the machines used in the construction industry.
In heavy-duty industrial applications such as those found on construction sites, a high-performance lubricant can have a significant impact on operational success.
From bulldozers, dump trucks and draglines to scrapers and shovels, all construction equipment is subject to harsh conditions. Exposure to extreme cold or heat, moisture, dust and dirt can hurt lubricant performance and lead to premature equipment failure.
Heavy-duty equipment used in the construction of streets, highways, bridges and buildings is subject to extreme environmental conditions.
The Bangladesh lubricants market is expected to register a CAGR of 3.01% over the forecast period, 2019-2024. One of the key factors which are driving the market studied is the growing demand for new motor vehicles in the country.
In 2018, the automotive and other transportation has dominated in this market, and it is expected to grow during the forecast period.
Mostly because of the rise of the overall automotive sector, the engine oil market has grown up around 10% to 12% in the last three years.
This automotive and other transportation segment is likely to dominate the market during this meanwhile.
Now, the automotive industry in Bangladesh is considered as the third largest in South Asia.
Bangladesh is anticipating a rise in the demand for motorized vehicles. Until July 2018, 282,354 vehicles were registered against the 420,398 vehicles registered in 2017.
In 2016, a total of 0.42 million vehicles were registered in Bangladesh, up 31.25% from a year earlier, according to the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority.
Bangladesh imports $2.01 billion worth of vehicles including motorbikes, trucks, passenger vehicles and small pick-ups in the year 2017.
The demand for automobiles in Bangladesh is $2.5 billion, according to data from the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority.
Lubricants are used in automotive for various applications, such as the engine, brake systems, fuel systems, transmission manufacturing, steering systems, exhaust systems, and many others.
Besides, the lubricants in marine transportation are used to dissipate heat, for reducing friction, and combat wear and tear between the surfaces of two moving components.
Additionally, lubricants help fight corrosion and rust in the engine, whether it’s an aviation engine or a wheel turning on a car.
Although the sales of new vehicles have been decreasing in the country for the past three years, the sales of used cars have increased significantly in the country, thereby driving the demand for automotive lubricants.
At least 35,000 units of commercial vehicles such as bus, truck, auto-rickshaw, cargo van, human-haulier, pickup and tanker have been sold last year.
The automotive industry in Bangladesh is dominated by imports of new vehicles, mostly by Japan, China, and India on a large scale and a few from Europe and the United States.
Moreover, Bangladesh is anticipating a growth in the aviation market, with the 170 million population increasing the use of the aerial route for travel, owing to the growing middle-class income.
Due to this, air travel is increasing in the country, which in turn is leading to the market growth for aviation lubricants.
The demand for engine oils will keep rising with the increasing automotive vehicles, which in turn will increase the market for lubricants in Bangladesh.
Looking into Future Automotive Lubricants Market
The future of the lubricants market is more linked with the overall automobile market of Bangladesh. So the forecasts of the automotive segment may provide complete market research on the automotive engine oil market too.
Key trends driving the business in the Bangladesh automotive sector along with potential challenges confronted by players across the industry have to be discovered.
Brand Value Works Less in Bangladesh Engine Oil Market
Brand value works less in the engine oil market of
Bangladesh. Is it really true?
We have observed this market for a long and tried to
understand its nature. The answer could be a simple one that the open market is
the main reason behind this status, which is literally saturated one.
The conventional way of product marketing,
agricultural-based oil demand, and the lack of awareness among the end-users
are the key reasons too.
As a trade of the techno-commercial product, most new
entrants had failed to create their brand value over the popular brands.
We found the marketers has accepted this trade as limited to
the strategy in terms of pricing, and regular distribution policy rather than
creating a brand engagement to the end users.
Demand is growing here to meet the requirement from the
increased motorization, industrial machinery and equipment application, driven
by the power, manufacturing, logistics, automotive manufacturing, and others.
Is this growing demand is ensuring the actual growth of the
market?
A competitive market always allows product brands to enter
in any trade to grab the market share. However, dealing with a saturated market
like Bangladesh is really difficult.
Let’s come to the point. How many engine oil brands exist in
Bangladesh? It is more than 100. But, how many of them are globally recognized?
“We are very much surprised seeing so many brands in
Bangladesh, even in India we don’t have too many brands,” said Kaushik
Mazumder, national sales manager to Veedol Lubricants in Bangladesh.
However, global brands like Mobil, Shell, Castrol, and BP
who entered earlier in Bangladesh are enjoying around 35% of the total market
share.
Rest 65% of the market belongs to those struggling brands
and their individual market share is untraceable.
How this market can hold a lot of brands? It is as because
of the lacks of the proper trade union as well as the lacks of proper
monitoring.
That is why this market turns into a volatile one as it is
easy to start importing brands from any corner of the world.
The entry of a new brand has a barely visible impact on the market.
Recently, the market-insiders have brought out a concerning message for the recognized brands. And their statement is that existing trademark brands are losing 5% of its lubricant shelves every month.
The market players should concentrate on the overall market
scenario to regulate it to make it business- friendly for the future. The more
open this market, more unregulated market it is.
Currently,
the engine oil market of Bangladesh is a hostile one. Those oil players have
established their footholds already here, with international brands; are
struggling to sustain their market share.
Recently,
the markets insiders have brought out a concerning message for the brands those
who are concern about their shelves.
Their
statement is that existing trademark brands are losing 5% of its lubricant
shelves every month in Bangladesh.
With
more than a hundred brands on the shelf, this market is growing steadily.
Last
year, the demand for the total engine oil market was around 160,000 tonnes.
The
Daily Star, a reputed newspaper of Bangladesh reported that the engine oil
market has grown at nearly 15% during the last three years.
Also, we
observed that lubricants consumption has increased by 60% during the last nine
years, where the market has received around 5% to 6% annual growth.
Market
Insiders assumed that engine oil consumption likely to be around 165,000 tonnes
for the year 2019.
The
demand from the industrial machinery, equipment application, and the growing
motorization rate is the key to this demand which will, in turn, increase the
demand for base oil.
Also,
the growing industrial sector requires a greater import of efficient machinery
to be used in the factories. Various automotive vehicles in the transport
sector require lubricants too, which come from base oil.
The value of this base oil market is around $152 million.
Therefore,
the base oil demand is expected to witness steady growth in Bangladesh. And the
market size is expected to increase due to these factors amid its economic
growth.
To
review that assumption, we have talked with several oil brands and tried to
find out the exact market size of this growing market.
Most of
them agreed with that forecast; however, few marketers are expected that the
market would be 175,000 tonnes by the year 2018-2019.
In an
interview, Syed Nazib M Rahman, Director to Runner Lube and Energy Limited,
said “Last five years, Bangladesh engine oil market has a growth of around
15-17%. We are expected to the growth would be even more than 15% in the next five
years as the economy is growing.”
Also,
our interviews with the brand persons in the 14th Dhaka Motor Show 2019 has
revealed, that the automotive oil segment should bring to control.
The
market is being saturated because of the regular entrance of the by-name
brands.
And
those brands are not maintaining this trade according to the lubricant norms in
comparison to the trademarks.
In this
backdrop, Mr Nazib said “Overall Bangladesh Lubricants Market is saturated,
especially in the automotive segment. The industrial segment is coherent with
lubricants manner.”
Many
trademark brand marketers asserted that we all together should know the real
trade of lubricants with a standard manner; the market would not be over
saturated.
Market
insiders think lack of govt. intervention on the policy to monitor this trade
make this market uncontrolled one.
And it
is high time to bring strong regulations to change this prevailing situation
and help the industries and also protect the environment in the process.
Substandard engine oil causes sales drop of popular brands
The sale of
substandard engine oils, especially by the names of popular brands, continues
with the authorities taking no steps to check the unscrupulous business by a
section of oil traders.
Widespread
irregularities have pushed down the engine oil sales of popular brands by 12%
in 2016-17.
Few private
refineries are illegally involved in blending such sub-standard oils in this
market.
Sources said
that engine oils are adulterated in two ways. Mostly, unscrupulous traders mix
paraffine with recycled oils collected from the marine and various
manufacturing industries.
Sometimes,
they use kerosene oil to adulterate the engine oils.
Only for the
low prices, these least quality lubricants have been swayed by the market.
However, the use of recycled base oil is harmful to the lifetime of the vehicle
engine.
Many drivers
of buses, trucks, and motorbikes are facing trouble with their engine after
using sub-standard products from unreliable sources.
We have talked with several filling stations at Baghabarighat in Shahzadpur union of Sirajganj district. They said the drivers are more willing to use lower-priced engine oil.
That is why the local filling stations are more interested to sell those less priced engine oil. They are not concern about the quality of the engine oil.
On the other
hand, no administration is solely responsible for controlling this adulteration
rather than a few raids by the special mobile court. There are no visible
activities of any institutions in checking the malpractice.
Bangladesh
Petroleum Corporation (BPC) is aware of this illicit practice but they are yet
to permanently stop the trade of impure engine oil sold throughout the nations.
“Few raids by the special magistrate court has somewhat decreased the adulteration of engine oils. Still, this trend of illegal oil manufacturing continues and the original brands are facing troubles in the market,” BPC officials said.
The government should strictly monitor all of the private oil blending plants and its distribution policy.
Lubricant Employee’s Association of Bangladesh has organized its second official iftar program followed by a discussion at renowned Hotel Progoti Inn in Dhaka on May 18, 2019.
Most senior officials of the companies, including the sales and marketing personnel of the renowned lubricants brands, were present in this program.
Other merchants, importers, retailers associated with this lubricants market were present too.
Ripon Sheikh Zayed, chairman of Lubricant Employees Association of Bangladesh (LEAB) has given his welcome speech on the occasion.
After this iftar party, the prominent sales head of various brands has shared their experience and gave a guideline for the development of the market.
Ariful Haque Nahid, general secretary of Lubricant Employees Association of Bangladesh (LEAB) gave his opinion about the role of the association.
He said, there are many difficulties exist in our lubricant trade in the market. We are trying to overcome those barriers on behalf of the association.
“We are also trying to organize the training sessions for the freshers who are recently joined in lubricant sector” he also said.
In the event, the association members have worked on the next year’s organization’s action plan.
All of the members have come to consent, they are more willing to work in the development of the owners and sales-force for the development of the lubricants market.
Rest of the world is moving towards the lighter viscosity
multi-grade oil, where the major market share of our country is controlled by
the mono-grade oil. However, the demand and acceptance of multi-grade oil is
growing in the automotive sector.
The mono-grade engine oil holds the major market share of
Bangladesh. Around 70% of the purpose of automotive and agricultural machinery
needs are met by mono-grade oil.
The agriculture-based economy, outdated public transport,
and the industry standard keep roles for the mono-grade oil market.
The agricultural pump-sets, shallow machines, second-hand machinery,
local transports, and the repair industry are the key users of this
single-grade oil.
The demand for agricultural lubricants in our country is
expected to grow at 12-15% between the periods of 2018 to 2023.
SAE 40 and SAE 50 mono-grade oils are highly-sold
agricultural lubricants in rural areas.
However, the mono-grade oil, especially for the
multi-purpose use, as well as the agricultural machinery, has made this market
a significant one.
The provision of subsidy for agricultural machinery and the
increased mechanization in the agricultural industry are the key drivers of
this oil segment.
In 2009, the government took up a Tk 150 crore scheme to
speed up farm mechanization by offering 25% subsidy for agricultural types of
machinery such as power tillers, tractors, power threshers and combine
harvesters.
However, the key restraints are the availability of recycled
oils in the market. And the lack of knowledge among small-scale farmers is also
a concern.
Many unscrupulous businessmen are involved in recycled oil
trade causes the availability of lower-standard barrel products.
Recycled lubricants can be harmful in the harsh
environmental and operating conditions – such as cold, heat, dirt and water –
that can be detrimental to a lubricant’s performance in your equipment.
Farmers and other agricultural customers with automatic
lubrication systems to ensure that their equipment is lubricated with the right
lubricants, in the right amount, at the right intervals.
Above all, most users are not aware of quality oils.
Recent years, the number of local oil marketers has been
increased dramatically. They are the floating businessmen who deal in this
market beyond the value chain.
Most floating marketers trade on the barrel oil especially
works with mono-grade oil by a different local name.
A discussion on overall trends, as a whole, the base oil
industry is both growing and improving. While the demand for Group I base oils
low, Group II and Group III demand grew at a high rate over the last ten years.
The majority believe that the base oil industry has grown in
the past ten years, and most believe the industry will continue to grow in the
next ten years.
APAC is particularly likely to believe the industry grew 73% and will grow 74% in the future.
A global survey has concluded that Group II and Group III
usage will rise by 41% and 38% while Group I usage is expected to fall by 28%
by 2030.
The ExxonMobil Basestocks 2018 Industry Pulse Report has surveyed 306 base oil decision makers from the industries: Additive manufacturers, lubricants manufacturers, industry association, and the equipment manufacturers.
The survey interviewed at least 100 respondents from APAC,
The Americas, and EMEA to ensure results encompassed a global perspective.
The survey by ExxonMobil found that 65% of companies are
already using Group I base stocks at lower levels than previous years.
Among the reasons given for the shift were, Group II and III
oils are more likely to help meet regulations; that they are used more
frequently across 77% of industries, and they are likely to save 73% of costs.
Additionally, the survey found that respondents expect Group III oils to become the most commonly used grade within 10 years.
Nearly 65% of respondents for the study believed that the
decline of Group I will significantly impact the market.
50% of respondents say it has been difficult to adapt. In order to do so, companies have been changing work techniques, working with new manufacturers, and changing equipment.
However, the respondents still addressed the certain benefits of Group I base oils, emphasizing the viscosity, solvency, and most importantly the low cost.
The survey observed that while the global industries sector
is clearly anticipating a decline in demand for Group I, it also recognizes
that Group I base stocks will continue to be relevant and favoured for specific
formulations well into 2030.
This survey also revealed that Group II base oils as the “heart” of the market.
Group II base oils are seen as the most important to all industries discussed, including the automotive, marine, industrial, and commercial vehicle industries.
Group III base oils are viewed as the second most important to these industries.
Along with EMEA, the Americas are more likely than the APAC
to use Group III base oils in the next 10 years.
India to Formulate Bangladesh Automobile Manufacturing Policy
The country’s automobile market has witnessed rapid
growth for the last several years due to the rapid economic growth, especially
the passenger car segment.
Around 63 automobiles are now sold every day as per
the Bangladesh Reconditioned Vehicles Importers and Dealers Association
(Barvida).
Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) says this
passenger car market has got 98% growth in the past six years.
Overall, this industry achieved 8% growth a year on
an average since 2012, according to industry insiders.
The automobile manufacturing and assembling
industries have not grown in Bangladesh in the last three decades because of a
lack of raw materials and the backward linkage.
Now the demand for the passenger car segment is
fulfilled by the imported reconditioned car.
“If the government formulates policy for
establishing four-wheeler-manufacturing plants, current prices will ultimately
come down,” said Habib Ullah Dawn, president of the Barvida.
At the 14th Dhaka Motor Show, Industries Minister
Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun said “We do not want to rely on others. We will
manufacture our own cars.”
Minister said the local market has a huge demand of
automobiles so “It has to be retained by manufacturing cars locally”.
“Handing over this market to others is irrational
and we cannot only depend on imported cars but” he also said.
Emphasizing on developing “own brand” instead of
assembling and importing cars, he said his ministry would provide all types of
cooperation for local automobile brands.
PHP Group assembles the brand’s vehicles at its
Chittagong plant. So far, it has brought together three models, Preve, Saga and
Exora, by importing the parts from Malaysia.
Indian automakers have a keen interest in the
growing market of Bangladesh. Already, the commercial vehicles segment is
dominated by India because of the competitive pricing and availability of spare
parts.
However, the Indian automakers are competing with
Japanese brands in the passenger car segment. They are more willing to provide
high quality, brand new cars at cheap rates.
Moreover, the Society of Indian Automobile
Manufacturers (SIAM) is trying to motivate the Bangladesh government into formulating
an automobile manufacturing policy.
Sugata Sen, deputy director general of SIAM said,
“We want to make customers understand that Indian automakers are keen to help
Bangladesh develop the industry locally for ensuring the best value for money.”
The present trends in economic growth, India is
trying to grab a huge market potential for passenger cars with sophisticated
technologies.
The country’s car market has witnessed rapid growth in the last several years due to the rapid economic growth and a rise in the purchasing power of consumers.
The comfort issue in public transport has already put a question mark. Although public transport service has been improved over time, there are still complains such as not getting a seat in the sitting-service bus, misbehaviour of the conductors and so forth.
Also, the affordable price of cars is also reasons for the boost in car sales.
Till now, this growing demand is fulfilled by the imported reconditioned car as we don’t have our own four-wheeler-manufacturing plants in our country.
If the government formulates policy for establishing four-wheeler-manufacturing plants, current prices will ultimately come down, said Habib Ullah Dawn, president of the Bangladesh Reconditioned Vehicles Importers’ and Dealers’ Association (Barvida).
In the inauguration of the 14th Dhaka Motor Show, Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun said that Bangladesh will not import cars in the near future.
“We do not want to rely on others. We will manufacture our own cars,” the minister said.
Industries Minister said the local market has a huge demand of automobiles so “It has to be retained by manufacturing cars locally”.
He also said, “Handing over this market to others is illogical and we cannot only depend on imported cars.”
Putting emphasis on developing “own brand” instead of assembling and importing cars, he said imported reconditioned cars would lose the market soon in the country due to the evolving modern automobile industry.
The industries minister said his ministry would provide all types of cooperation including land allocation to the entrepreneurs who come forward for local automobile brands.
According to the Barvida, around 7,353 reconditioned cars were sold in FY 2012-13, and 20,149 cars were sold in FY 2016-17.
The country imported around 23,000 cars last year to fulfil the growing public demand.
Currently, the market size for reconditioned cars is around Tk 5,000 crore. Each year the size of the market is increasing by 15 to 20%, according to Barvida.
“Around 63 cars are sold in our country every day. The number of imported cars has increased threefold now,” said AKM Tawhidur Rahman, head of the sales division of Rancon Motorbikes Limited.
“The current market size of reconditioned cars and brand new cars is 25,000 units, in which 5000 units are brand new,” he added.
Key Barriers to Market Quality Industrial Oil In Bangladesh
The stability of Bangladesh’s economy in the last 5 years and, coupled with its pro-business climate and improving infrastructure has transformed the manufacturing sector into one of the top destinations for the industrial oil market.
The demand from the industrial machinery and equipment application also accounts for a major market share and is driven by the end-user sectors such as power, manufacturing, logistics, automotive manufacturing, and others.
Along with the growth of the power sector and the textile sector, the untapped manufacturing sectors are the steel, cement, and plastic. Also, the manufacturing of automotive vehicles and motorcycles will create more opportunity in the near future.
With an estimated annual consumption of around 45,000 tonnes in 2018 that is projected to reach the 52,500 marks by 2019.
To understand the key restraints to market quality products in this growing market, we have talked with leading oil brands.
Rajat Chakraborty, assistant general manager, industrial sales of Runner Lube and Energy Limited, said various factors, including the key barriers of this market.
“There is a lot of shortcoming in terms of technical knowledge in the user end. Sometimes, we observed that they chose the wrong application with their machinery, which is ultimately a risky decision for that company,” he said.
He said the small-scale factories face difficulties as it is not operated by that technical person who doesn’t have proper knowledge on oil usage.
Even, sometimes they are not willing to use a high-end quality product to save the production cost.
“Mostly, we found that to save a little amount of money for purchasing the oil, you are playing with the lifespan of your machine,” he added.
“Immediately, you aren’t facing the trouble with your machinery. But in the long run, the lifespan of your highly expensive machinery is decreasing, which is in threat,” he said too.
Process capacity of the local brands’ product matter
For the local manufacturing of the industrial oil segment, our findings say that there are few local blenders in our country those don’t have the proper process capable of manufacturing lubricants.
“Proper manufacturing of the lubricant product requires a continuous process and manner, which are not maintained in the local blending process,” said Mr Rajat.
When you decide on the local brands, that might cause the wrong application with your machinery. As the lack of process and recommended formulation may cause that wrong application, which is a risky decision.
So, for the sake of your machinery, you should rely on the O.E.M product of the trademark brand. In this competitive market, for pricing, we should not compromise with the quality of the product.
Growing Demand of Industrial Oil Segment in Bangladesh
Keeping pace
with the automotive sector, the demand for industrial oil is eyeing exponential
growth in Bangladesh.
And the oil players have already established their footprints in this segment.
Also, the growing industrial sector is on the way of setting up efficient machinery to be used in the factories.
The demand
from the industrial machinery and equipment application also accounts for a
major market share and is driven by the end-user sectors such as power,
manufacturing, logistics, automotive manufacturing, and others.
The growth of the power sector has already highlighted the industrial oil in our country.
With the prospective textile sector, the untapped industries which are yet to explore are steel manufacturing, cement, and the growing plastic.
And in the
near future, the manufacturing of automotive vehicles and motorcycles will
create the opportunity for the marketer.
To know the
current status of it, we tried to find out the key barriers that are facing by
the marketer.
With
extensive working experience in the industrial arena, Rajat Chakraborty,
Assistant General Manager to Runner Lube and Energy Limited, said, “We mostly
face the short cummings on technical knowledge among the user end.”
Most of the
case, it has been observed that the operators of the production unit of the
factories use OEM product until the warranty period of the machinery, which is
recommended by the manufacturer. But after that, the operators have a tendency
to change the brand to save a little amount of money.
In this
regard, Mr Rajat said, “Unfortunately, we found that to save a little amount of
money for purchasing the oil, you are playing with the lifespan of your
machine.”
“Immediately,
you aren’t facing the trouble. But in the long run, the lifespan of your highly
expensive machinery is decreasing, which is in threat,” he added.
Currently,
industrial oil segment holds the third-largest demand after mineral-based
monograde segment and automotive-based multi-grade segment.
With an estimated annual consumption of around 45,000 tonnes in 2018 that is projected to reach the 52,500 marks by 2019.
This industrial sector accounts for around 30% of the total lubricant oil consumption.
Brands Are Losing 5% of its Lubricant Shelves Monthly in Bangladesh
Engine oil trade has found an ambiguous one, as it is such a market that lacks proper trade union as well as the lacks of proper monitoring.
And the situation is being degraded while too many brands are in the same battle to secure the market share. Besides, this market is flooded with different sub-standard products.
We have observed these factors behind this trade earlier. Also, the market insiders think lack of govt. intervention on the policy to monitor this trade make this market uncontrolled one.
Currently, the situation is being tough for the entire trade. It is clear, the engine oil brands with their shelves, are struggling to hold their market shares.
Recently, we have talked with several traders of the lubricants located at Dayaganj, Banglamotor, Gabtoli, Banglabazar and tried to know the present status of the market.
Most of the traders say that it is such a market, where on an average of 4 to 5 companies are entering monthly in this trade. But unfortunately, a few days later, we saw many companies are unable to supply the required demand in this market. Even form this market, many companies have left out too.
Recently, market insiders have brought out a concerning message for the brands those who are concern about their shelves.
Their statement is that existing trademark brands are losing 5% of its lubricant shelves every month in Bangladesh.
To review that assumption, we have talked with a few oil brands.
In an exclusive interview, Syed Nazib M Rahman, Director to Runner Lube and Energy Limited said, “There are too many international brands are doing well like us Servo, BP, Mobil, Shell, Valvoline, Fuchs and other. Yes, the automotive market is a saturated one. However, we are looking positively into it.”
“We think that the automotive oil segment should bring to control. Those who are entering this market, they should study the market first, then they would come to the market,” said Mr Nazib.
Many recognized brands are facing difficulties, as the market is already flooded with more than 100 brands.
This market is expected to be 1,75,000 tonnes by the year 2018-2019.
Overall, the engine oil market in Bangladesh is competitive now. Already, oil players have established their footholds here, with international brands. With more than a hundred brands on the shelf, this market is growing steadily.
Last year, the demand for the total engine oil market was around 160,000 tonnes.
The Daily Star, a reputed newspaper of Bangladesh reported that the engine oil market has grown at nearly 15% during the last three years.
Also, we observed that lubricants consumption has increased by 60% during the last nine years, where the market has received around 5% to 6% annual growth.
Market Insiders assumed that engine oil consumption likely to be around 165,000 tonnes for the year 2019.
To review that assumption, we have talked with several oil brands and tried to find out the exact market size of this growing market.
Most of them agreed with that forecast; however, few marketers are expected that the market would be 175,000 tonnes by the year 2018-2019.
In an interview, Syed Nazib M Rahman, Director to Runner Lube and Energy Limited, said “Last five years, Bangladesh engine oil market has a growth of around 15-17%. We are expected to the growth would be even more than 15% in the next five years as the economy is growing.”
Also, our interviews with the brand persons in the 14th Dhaka Motor Show 2019 has revealed, that the automotive oil segment should bring to control.
The market is being saturated because of the regular entrance of the by-name brands.
And those brands are not maintaining this trade according to the lubricant norms in comparison to the trademarks.
In this backdrop, Mr Nazib said “Overall Bangladesh Lubricants Market is saturated, especially in the automotive segment. Industrial segment is coherent with lubricants manner.”
Many trademark brand marketers asserted that we all together should know the real trade of lubricants with a standard manner, the market would not be over saturated.
However, market insiders think lack of govt. intervention on the policy to monitor this trade make this market uncontrolled one.
To meet the growing demand for automotive engine oils,
equally, the motorcycle oil segment is eyeing significant growth.
In our country, the rise of motorcycle users throughout
the nation, popularity of ride-sharing, and the favorable motorcycle
assembling, leading to the eventual manufacturing has created that opportunity
for this segment.
On an assumption, motorcycle oil segment has 5% to 8% of
the total market share, which is around 10,000 tonnes litter.
Surprisingly, the number of motorcycles has doubled in
Dhaka over the last eight years.
Revealing Bangladesh Motorcycle Oil Segment
According to the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority
(BRTA), the number of registered motorcycles increased to 4, 69,888 in April
2018 from 2, 10,081 in 2010.
Around 75,251 motorcycles were registered with the BRTA
in 2017.
The Motorcycle Industry Development Policy 2018 is now
effective to facilitate the motorcycle manufacturing process to meet the
domestic demand. There, the manufacturing policy already created a market for
both industrial engine oil as well as the motorcycle engine oil.
This manufacturing policy aims to locally manufacture 5,
00, 000 motorcycles a year by 2021 and double that by 2027.
Operators now predict that the market would grow many
folds in the next two-three years.
Besides, the popularity of ride-sharing has already
increased the two-wheeled traffic in Dhaka.
On average about 1,000 units of two-wheelers are being
sold in the country as the demand is rising. Five years ago the number was
around 550.
So, the motorcycle oil market is on the cusp of significant
change triggered by forces shaping the future of mobility.
The ride-sharing companies has already initiated a
mobility revolution, impacting motorcycle oil demand due to more frequent oil
drain intervals in the near term.
However, opportunities for partnerships to this market or
use it as a new channel to market is among the positive factors.
In the ride-sharing model, major motorcycle oil brands
need to look to the future, as questions such as who will be making the decision
on the ‘brand’ of 4T oil at the time of an oil change will be raised.
Most oil players in this market have already created their footnotes and become desperate to this segment. Many reputed from America, UK, Japan, Russia, Indonesia, Thailand, and India is available.
Therefore, the motorcycle oil segment is looking at the rising development on the growing motorcycle industry, and the impact of these factors on 4T oil demand.
We have discussed more on automotive engine oil; however, the single-grade oil segment holds the lion’s share of the market. Till now, around 70% of the purpose of automotive and agricultural machinery needs are met by the single-grade oil.
The
agriculture-based economy, outdated public transport, and the industry standard
keep roles for this single-grade oil market.
The
agricultural pump-sets, shallow machines, second-hand machinery, local
transports, and the repair industry are the key users of this single-grade oil.
The demand for
agricultural lubricants in our country is expected to grow at 12-15% between
the periods of 2018 to 2023.
The
provision of subsidy for agricultural machinery and the increased mechanization
in the agricultural industry are the key drivers of this oil segment.
In 2009, the
government took up a Tk 150 crore scheme to speed up farm mechanization by
offering 25% subsidy for agricultural types of machinery such as power tillers,
tractors, power threshers and combine harvesters.
Later, the
project was extended until June 2019. Now, up to 95% of the land is tilled by
power tillers and tractors.
However, the
key restraints are the availability of recycled oils in the market. And the
lack of knowledge among small-scale farmers is also a concern.
Many
unscrupulous businessmen are involved in recycled barrel oil business causes
the availability of the lower-standard barrel products.
Recycled
lubricants can be harmful in the harsh environmental and operating conditions –
such as cold, heat, dirt and water – that can be detrimental to a lubricant’s
performance in your equipment.
Farmers and
other agricultural customers with automatic lubrication systems to ensure that
their equipment is lubricated with the right lubricants, in the right amount,
at the right intervals.
In
Bangladesh, SAE 40 and SAE 50 single grade oils are highly-sold agricultural
lubricants in rural areas.
However, the
single-grade oil, especially for the agricultural multi-purpose use, has made
this market segment a significant one.
Above all,
most users are not aware of quality oils, still which are the key barrier for
this market.
Recent
years, the number of local oil marketers has been increased dramatically. By
nature, they are the floating businessmen who deal in this market beyond the
value chain.
Most
floating marketers trade on the barrel oil especially works with single-grade
oil by different local name.
Engine oil market of Bangladesh is an example of a
competitive one, as it has already placed more than 100 brands altogether and
the number of brands is increasing day by day.
And the situation is being worsened while so many by name
products are available. So, this market has become more overstated in terms of
brand names and local products.
Last year, the demand for the total engine oil market was
around 160,000 tonnes.
The Daily Star, a reputed newspaper of Bangladesh claimed
that the engine oil market has grown at nearly 15% during the last three years.
In this growing market, should we allow too more brands in
this market is a question?
Regularly, the retailers have to welcome the representatives of newly entered brands. Even, India doesn’t have too many engine oil brands like Bangladesh have.
Earlier, we observed these factors behind the engine oil trade of Bangladesh. And, business Insiders has depicted this lubricants market as a silent trade with a lot of floating traders.
Market Insiders says the lubricants consumption likely to be
around 165,000 tonnes for the year 2019.
For the last nine years, it has observed that lubricants
consumption has increased by 60%, where the market has enjoyed around 5% to 6%
annual growth.
However, the engine oil demand is growing thanks to
increasing automotive sector and the agriculture-based economy.
Besides, the engine oil consumption in the industrial sector
has increased significantly in the last 5 years.
Already, oil players have established their footholds here,
with international brands.
Market insiders think lack of govt. intervention on the
policy to monitor this trade make this market uncontrolled one.
And it is high time to bring strong regulations to change
this prevailing situation and help the industries and also protect the
environment in the process.
However, the lack of market monitoring and the least
reporting makes this trade unnoticeable to the public.
Currently, the situation is being tough for the overall
engine oil market. It is clear, the engine oil brands with their existing
market share, are struggling to hold their market shares.
Revealing Market Size of Bangladesh Engine Oil Market
Who will reveal the exact
market size of the engine oil market in Bangladesh? The market for engine oils,
known as lubricants, is growing rapidly, driven by the increasing number of
automotive vehicles as well as the rapid growth of its economy.
On an assumption, last year,
the demand for the total engine oil market was around 160,000 tonnes.
The Daily Star, a reputed
newspaper of Bangladesh claimed that the engine oil market has grown at nearly
15% during the last three years.
It also alleged that the
lubricant consumption rose over 14% during this period.
Earlier, Mobil Jamuna Limited,
a leading shareholder of Bangladesh engine oil market, has estimated that the
lubricants consumption was about 62,600 tonnes for the year 2010.
Within nine years, it has
observed that lubricants consumption has increased by 60%, where the market has
enjoyed around 5% to 6% annual growth.
Market Insiders says the
lubricants consumption likely to be around 165,000 tonnes for the year 2019.
An earlier report by the
Daily Star says the retail market was about Tk 1,000 crore in 2009, when the
automotive sector consumed 77%, and the manufacturing sector consumed the rest
market share.
But now, based on the growth
analysis, the expected retail market is around Tk 3,000 crore.
In the last 5 years,
lubricants consumption in the manufacturing sector has increased notably.
It has also observed, the
automotive sector holds around 70% of the total demand, and the manufacturing
sector accounts for the rest 30% market share.
The demand from the
industrial machinery and equipment application also accounts for a major share
of the total lubricants market and is driven by the end-user sectors such as
power, manufacturing, logistics, automotive manufacturing, and others.
The growth of the power
sector has got priority because of the national agenda, also highlighted the
demand from the manufacturing sector.
Also, the growing industrial
sector requires a greater import of efficient machinery to be used in the
factories. Various automotive vehicles in the transport sector require
lubricants too, which come from base oil.
Therefore, the lubricants
demand is expected to witness steady growth in Bangladesh. And the market size
is expected to increase due to these factors amid its economic growth.
The future of Bangladesh automotive engine oil
market is depending on the production of automobiles and demand for
conventional and synthetic products.
The automotive vehicle sales have shown a constant
rise over the past few years, because of the growing population and consumer
spending capacity.
While forecasting the future market, we have to
understand the acceptance of both conventional oil and synthetic oil.
The conventional oil is cheap with a high demand all
over the world. Whereas, synthetic lubes provide excellent protection and
better performance for a longer period of time than conventional products.
Grade Insights
We know, based on grades, the market has been
considered into mineral, semi-synthetic, and synthetic.
As usual, the conventional products will enjoy a
moderate growth as they have a high viscosity. It has a better acceptance among
the consumers.
In comparison, semi-synthetic lubes are
engine-specific oils, which are specially manufactured by adding suitable
additives and as per the specifications of vehicle manufacturers. However, the
oil changing cycle for semi-synthetic is little longer than the mineral-based
products.
Transition to Synthetic Oil
Marketers have already pursued the semi-synthetic
lube products to the customers, recommending those as the conversion of product
usage from the mineral oil to synthetic oil.
Besides the passenger cars, most engines of the
diesel-run commercial vehicles run in the road are out-of-date which are the
key customer of the mineral based oil.
Myths on Synthetic Oil
Besides, fully-synthetic products were previously
used only for race cars. These oils provide excellent protection from friction,
wear and tear, and operate smoothly at high temperature and extreme weather
conditions.
However, creating awareness on the synthetic product
is a challenge. And the existing myths on the lubricants also the key
restraints to the understanding of the synthetic.
A common myth is synthetic engine oil bad for engine seals. Synthetic engine oil will not cause any damage to engine seals. The most popular myth is synthetic oil causes cars to use more oil?
Synthetic engine oils don’t affect seals and won’t
be the cause of blow-by or oil burn-off in an older engine. Just like
conventional engine oil, synthetic engine oils have a specific viscosity grade.
However, synthetic engine oil performs smoothly at a
high operating temperature, which is a major reason for OEMs to manufacture
turbocharged vehicle engines.
Future of Synthetic Oil Segment
The consumer awareness pertaining to the advantages
of using fully-synthetic lubes may drive segment growth.
In the further development of vehicle engines,
synthetic engine oil is projected to play a crucial role.
Also, the consumer
awareness for fuel-efficiency is expected to create great opportunities for the
manufacturers in the industry.
The market is apparently flooded with substandard lubricants under various brand names. Even some importers are directly selling recycled engine oil and recycled base oil. We know that the market is overwhelmed with more than 100 brands.
Market Insiders considered this trade as an uncontrolled market in comparison to another segment.
Additionally, about 26 companies have got permission for the lubricants blending plants, where around 18 plants are in the operation.
The prevailing blending plants are committed to using virgin base oil as raw material for their production.
According to the Bangladesh Lube Blenders Association, the annual demand for lube oil is about 1,60,000 tones. Besides, under the public and private sector, the production capacity of 18 lube plants is about 2,00,000 tones.
However, due to lower prices of ground oils, compared to the virgin base oil, few unscrupulous blenders and importers are encouraged to import it at the private level.
But the National Board of Revenue (NBR) has brought a risky declaration in the national budget for the fiscal year 2018-19 allowed the import of the items through inclusion of two separate HS (harmonized system) Codes for them. However, in later, the energy division banned that announcement of that import.
But, the recycled base oil is damaging for the lifetime of the vehicle engine and other industrial mercenaries. Only for the low prices, these least quality lubricants have been swayed by the market.
Mechanical experts say that there is limited scope for the customers to know about the quality of lubricants. Again, the use of recycled base oil for blending purposes is not fit for the valuable machinery of the vehicles and industrial plants.
It also increases the user’s maintenance cost. Simultaneously, due to the use of these lower-substandard lubricants, a huge amount of investment in the machinery and equipment is being wasted. It is also a threat to the environment and public health.
According to the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA), there are more than 32 lakh petrol and diesel-powered cars in the country.
Around 45 lakh units of small-medium and large-scale industrial units are coming to the country. Besides, different-scale machinery is being made locally. To keep these instruments active, the use of virgin base oil is necessary.
So, it is necessary to stop the trade of recycled base oil as well as the engine oil to protect the domestic blending plants as well as to keep the lifespan of vehicles and factories.
Ride-sharing
in Bangladesh has brought a remarkable change in the transportation system,
especially in the metro. People now think easily to get the desired vehicle to
reach somewhere via mobile app-based ride- sharing.
It is found
as a success in terms of solving traffic woes; however, the ride-sharing apps
are middle-class urban solutions for the metro people.
Operators
said the rapid popularity of ride-sharing through apps has also pulled up
demand for two-wheelers since last years. This popularity has already increased
the two-wheeled traffic in Dhaka.
Especially,
the motorcycle population focused on ride-sharing has increased a 44% uptake in
motorbike sales. Even, the local ride-sharing market is turning out to be
decidedly two-wheeled in nature.
On average
about 1,000 units of two-wheelers are being sold in the country as the demand
is rising. Five years ago, the number was around 550.
Currently,
the ride-sharing industry is worth an estimated Tk 2,200 crore, yearly. And it
has barely made a dent in the larger picture of the overall transport industry.
We know,
last year, the Motorcycle Industry Development Policy 2018 has already approved
to facilitate the motorcycle manufacturing process to meet the domestic demand.
Operators
predict that the market would grow many folds in the next two-three years.
So, it is
clear that the motorcycle oil segment is on the cusp of significant change
triggered by forces shaping the future of mobility as well as the growing
motorcycle population in our country.
Market
Insiders forecasted the motorcycle engine oil demand will change as a reaction
to transformative venture redefining mobility, including the advent of ride
sharing.
So,
ride-sharing as a mobility revolution, impacting motorcycle engine oil demand
due to more frequent oil drain intervals in the near term.
Now,
building partnerships between motorcycle brands and the lubricant products
would be seen as a new channel to market.
Is the current marketing message of motorcycle engine oil
suppliers revived with this group of buyers, decision-makers, and influential
people, or do they need to be amended for this new and growing section of the
market?
The lubricants shelves of the overall market have already placed
more than 100 brands altogether and the number of brands is increasing day by
day.
And
the situation is being worsened while so many by name products are taking the
different shelves of different clusters. This market has become more overstated
in terms of brand names and local products.
You
may argue with us; lubricants shelves have no more space to place your new brands.
You might get surprised by hearing such a statement. For your information, it’s
not a surprising one.
Regularly,
lubricants retailers have to welcome the representatives of newly entered
brands.
And,
business Insiders has depicted this lubricants market as a silent trade with a
lot of floating traders.
On
an assumption, the annual domestic demand for lubricants oils is around 100
million liters, whereas base oil demands around 140 million liters.
However,
the lack of market monitoring and the least reporting makes the lubricants
trade unnoticeable to the public.
How does it work?
Already, lubricant players have established their footholds here
in Bangladesh, with international brands.
However,
the situation is being tough as too many brands entered in this market. So, it
is clear, the lubricants brands are struggling to sustain their market shares.
For
this reason, we recommend an impression of “Lubricants shelf” to evaluate your
brand visibility, which can a key indicator of the market shares of the
existing brands.
Every
retailer shop has different display shelves and the sellers place different
product cans for the end-users. By nature, the sellers have the sole control of
those shelves for the preferred product cans.
The idea of “Lubricants shelf” may give the marketer an
impression, how to penetrate in this competitive market.
The
well-known lubricants brands automatically seized the product shelves because
of the user demand. But for the struggling brands, this idea can be a key
identifier of the business strategy to take over other brands.
The
key objective of this impression of “Lubricants shelf” is to create an overview
of your brand positioning in this competitive market.
A
discussion on Lubricants Shelves; from the evaluation perspective, a discussion
ground has been created to solely represent this trade, as well as its other
stakeholders.
Bangladesh to observe International Mother Language Day
International Mother Language Day is a worldwide annual observance held on 21 February to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and promote multilingualism.
First announced by UNESCO on 17 November 1999, it was formally recognized by the United Nations General Assembly in a resolution establishing 2008 as the International Year of Languages.
The idea to celebrate International Mother Language Day was the initiative of Bangladesh.
In Bangladesh, the 21 February is the anniversary of the day when Bangladeshis fought for recognition for the Bangla language.
21st February was declared to be the International Mother Language Day by UNESCO in 1999. It has been observed throughout the world since February 21st, 2000. The declaration came up in tribute to the Language Movement done by the Bangladeshis.
Already, lubricant players have established their footholds
here in Bangladesh, with international brands.
However, the situation is being tough as too many brands
entered in this market. So, it is clear, the lubricants brands are struggling
to sustain their market shares.
For this reason, we recommend an impression of “Lubricants
shelf” to evaluate your brand visibility, which can a key indicator of the market
shares of the existing brands.
Every retailer shop has different display shelves and the
sellers place different product cans for the end-users. By nature, the sellers
have the sole control of those shelves for the preferred product cans.
The idea of “Lubricants shelf” may give the marketer an
impression, how to penetrate in this competitive market.
The well-known lubricants brands automatically seized the
product shelves because of the user demand. But for the struggling brands, this
idea can be a key identifier of the business strategy to take over other
brands.
The key objective of this impression of “Lubricants shelf”
is to create an overview of your brand positioning in this competitive market.
A discussion on Lubricants Shelves; from the evaluation
perspective, a discussion ground has been created to solely represent this
trade, as well as its other stakeholders.
Why “Lubricants shelf” is key to monitor engine oil market?
The lubricants shelves of the overall market have already
placed more than 100 brands altogether and the number of brands is increasing
day by day.
And the situation is being worsened while so many by name
products are taking the different shelves of different clusters. This market
has become more overstated in terms of brand names and local products.
You may argue with us; lubricants shelves have no more space
to place your new brands. You might get surprised by hearing such a statement.
For your information, it’s not a surprising one.
Regularly, lubricants retailers have to welcome the
representatives of newly entered brands.
And, business Insiders has depicted this lubricants market
as a silent trade with a lot of floating traders.
On an assumption, the annual domestic demand for lubricants
oils is around 100 million litres, whereas base oil demand around 140 million
litres.
However, the lack of market monitoring and the least
reporting makes the lubricants trade unnoticeable to the public.
Lubricants market now belongs to an uncontrolled trade in our country. Surprisingly, the lubricants shelves are already inflated with more than 100 brands and the number of brands is increasing.
The situation is degraded as so many by name, local products are penetrating into this market. Regularly, traders are welcoming the representatives of newly entered brands too.
Already, business Insiders has depicted this lubricants market as a silent trade with a lack of regulations.
A market with too many brands is not only the challenges of this market. The sale of recycled engine oils, especially by the names of popular brands is a key barrier too, has increased in the remote areas due to lax monitoring by any concerned authorities.
Sources said that engine oils are being adulterated in two ways. Mostly, unscrupulous traders mix paraffine based stocks with recycled oils collected from the marine and various manufacturing industries.
In absence of paraffine, they use kerosene oil to adulterate the engine oils. Then those are supplied to the users.
However, due to lower prices of ground oils, compared to the virgin base oil, dishonest traders are more encouraged to market recycled oils.
Only for the low prices, these least quality lubricants have been swayed by the market.
Hundreds of dealers and agents are involved in distributing of such lower standard engine oil.
It has found no administration is solely responsible for controlling the adulteration rather than a few raids by the special mobile court.
Fuel Adulteration in Bangladesh
In a roundabout way, the sale of impure fuels is another challenge of this trade. Mostly, unscrupulous fuel traders mix a high proportion of condensate with fuel oils like diesel, petrol and octane. And, the condensate can be mixed easily because of its similarity with other oils.
The refineries generally buy condensates produced in gas fields run by state-owned Petrobangla and other international oil companies under a government contract to produce fuels such as petrol, diesel, octane, and kerosene.
Earlier, BPC has issued show-cause notices to over 1500 agents, dealers, and distributors for their alleged involvement in illicit fuel trade and adulteration.
Still now, a section of dishonest fuel oil traders in different region procure the crude condensate from the gas fields with low price and mix it with the fuel oils rampantly.
These issues that discussed above are the key barriers that made this market unrestrained one. However, the govt. should act strongly to monitor this market for the well-being of this trade.
Bangladesh
industrial lubricants market is a focused market in recent years. Also, the oil
players look outside of the highly competitive automotive lubricants market for
new growth.
The
growth of the power sector has got publicized recently because of the national
agenda, which has also highlighted the industrial lubricants market in
Bangladesh.
Also,
the growing industrial sector requires a greater import of efficient machinery
to be used in the factories.
The
demand from the industrial machinery and equipment application also accounts
for a major market share and is driven by the end-user sectors such as power,
manufacturing, logistics, automotive manufacturing, and others.
Within
Bangladesh, industrial lubricants represent the third-largest market after
mineral-based lubricants markets and automotive lubricants market.
With
an estimated annual consumption of around 20 million litres in 2018 that is
projected to reach the 25 million litres mark by 2020.
The
stability of Bangladesh’s economy in the last 5 years and, coupled with its
pro-business climate and improving infrastructure has transformed this market
into one of the top destinations for foreign direct investments in the
manufacturing sector.
Lubricants consumption by the industrial sector has increased significantly in the last 5 years.
This industrial sector accounts for around 30% of the total lubricant consumption in Bangladesh.
The
consumption of industrial lubricants has increased exponentially. And the
metalworking fluid segment is the key segment includes a range of oils and
other liquids that are used for lubricating or cooling metallic workpieces
during the industrial procedures such as machining, grinding, forging,
stamping, and milling.
Metal
Removal fluids processed is likely to be one of the lucrative application
segments in the metalworking fluid market which will remain the second most
prominent application segment in this industry due to the growth in the
automotive and steel industries in the coming years.
In
Bangladesh, the distribution structure of industrial lubricants has evolved
over the years to serve the dispersed industrial landscape.
Traditionally, lubricants oil manufacturers have relied on primary and secondary distributors as their primary channel-to-market.
However, some markets may even require traders–individuals who have intimate knowledge of the market–to service the population of small-scale industrial end-users and retailers in rural regions.
Understanding the passenger car driver’s opinion on using car engine oil is more important for the marketers. We all know, the drivers of the passenger car play a key role in the overall fleet management.
A small-scale survey in Dhaka city also revealed that result too.
We found, around 80% car owners mostly rely on their drivers for the overall fleet maintenance as they don’t have the ample time to take care of their fleet personally.
Findings say the overall fleet maintenance is on the personal vehicle driver’s responsibility.
That is why we conducted a survey on 50 passenger car drivers of Dhaka city to understand the view of using lubricating oil.
Our findings say, 28% car drivers don’t have the in-depth knowledge of using passenger car engine oil.
76% car drivers rely on the mechanics for the oil change and they purchase their recommended oils. Sometimes they purchase the product can directly from the repair shop, as the mechanic also stores product cans on their shelves.
However, around 78% drivers purchase the can of the engine oil personally from the retailer shop.
They are more willing to negotiate the pricing while purchasing the oil as the market is over-flooded with various brands.
Findings also revealed that 34% drivers aren’t willing to move into the new branded products at a reasonable price. As the market is exaggerated with lots of brands, they are concerned about the quality of those products.
64% passenger car drivers are more willing to use the popular engine oil brands for their fleets; as with those products they have their user experiences. Also, they don’t want to take any kind of risk with their fleet engines.
So, the passenger car drivers not always rely on the mechanic for changing the engine oil. However, they have their own preferences too in terms of choosing the engine oil.
Mostly they use those well-fitted regular oils for their fleets on which they have trust along with the user experience.
Lubricants market of Bangladesh is a competitive one. The
lubricants shelves of the overall market have already placed more than 100
brands altogether and the number of brands is increasing day by day.
And the situation is being worsened while so many by name
products are taking the different shelves of different clusters. This market
has become more overstated in terms of brand names and local products.
You may argue with us; lubricants shelves have no more space
to place your new brands. You might get surprised hearing such a statement. For
your information, it’s not a surprising one.
Regularly, lubricants retailers have to welcome the
representatives of newly entered brands.
A national sales manager, of a reputed lubricating oil brand
in Bangladesh, said, even India doesn’t have too many oil brands like
Bangladesh have.
Earlier, we observed these factors behind the lubricants
trade of Bangladesh. And, business Insiders has depicted this lubricants market
as a silent trade with a lot of floating traders.
On an assumption, the annual domestic demand for lubricants
oils is around 100 million litres, whereas base oil demand around 140 million
litres.
The annual domestic consumption has got almost 3% yearly
growth.
However, the base oil demand of Bangladesh is growing thanks
to increasing automotive sector and the agriculture-based economy.
Lubricants consumption in the industrial sector has
increased significantly in the last 5 years.
Furthermore, this unnoticeable market now is a competitive
one. Already, lubricant players have established their footholds here, with
international brands.
Market insiders think lack of govt. intervention on the
policy to monitor this trade make this market uncontrolled one.
And it is high time to bring strong regulations to change
this prevailing situation and help the industries and also protect the
environment in the process.
However, the lack of market monitoring and the least
reporting makes this trade unnoticeable to the public.
Currently, the situation is being tough for the overall
lubricants market.
It
is clear, the lubricants brands with their existing market share, are
struggling to hold their market shares.
Overall Lubricants Market Is Growing In Bangladesh
It is not so difficult to calculate the size of lubricants trade of Bangladesh. However, business Insiders has considered this market as a silent trade in comparison to others.
Surprisingly, the annual domestic demand for lubricating oils is around 100 million litres, whereas base oil demand around 140 million litres. The market value of base oil around $133 million.
The annual domestic consumption has got almost 3% yearly growth, which is on par with India but behind China.
The lubricants shelves of Bangladesh hold more than 100 brands altogether and the number is increasing day by day.
However, the lack of market monitoring, the current status of the transport system, least reporting make this trade unnoticeable to the public.
In recent years, the growth of power sector has got publicized because of the national agenda, which has also highlighted the industrial lubricants oil market in Bangladesh.
The demand from the industrial machinery and equipment application also accounts for a major share of the total lubricants market and is driven by the end-user sectors such as power, manufacturing, logistics, automotive manufacturing, and others.
In our country, the base oil demand is the highest thanks to increasing automotive sector and the agriculture-based economy.
The growing motorization rate is the key to this demand which will, in turn, increase the demand for base oil.
Also, the growing industrial sector requires a greater import of efficient machinery to be used in the factories. Various automotive vehicles in the transport sector require lubricants too, which come from base oil.
Therefore, the base oil demand is expected to witness steady growth in Bangladesh. And the market size is expected to increase due to these factors amid its economic growth.
Lubricant consumption in the industrial sector has increased significantly in the last 5 years. The industrial sector accounts for 30% of total lubricant consumption in Bangladesh.
Furthermore, this unnoticeable market now is a competitive one. Already, lubricant players have established their footholds here, with international brands.
Market insiders think lack of govt. intervention on the policy to monitor this trade make this market uncontrolled one.
And it is high time to bring strong regulations to change this prevailing situation and help the industries and also protect the environment in the process.
The vehicle tracking system is a combination of technologies to know the real-time position of a vehicle or to log a history of where a vehicle has been. Mostly, these systems are using for stolen vehicle recovery strategies.
Also, the usage of vehicle tracking systems includes fleet management, tracking various assets, management of service personnel, mobile sales and surveillance.
Accordingly, the private sector is adopting vehicle tracking management system for fleet management.
Why
Bangladesh is a Market for Vehicle Tracking System?
Currently, the number of commercial and the passenger car is growing. So, the vehicle tracking market is eyeing growth in this disputed market.
Now, around 10% of passenger cars of Dhaka are using the vehicle tracking system.
After the National Elections 2019, the retailers are
now in the mood of trading the mono-grade oils, especially the barrel oil in a
full swing.
However, it is the peak season for the monograde oil
because of the harvesting time for the transplanted Aman between November to
January.
We know that the mono-grade oils hold the
significant market share of this market. The agriculture-based economy amid the
outdated public transport and the industry standard are the key to this
mono-grade segment.
Mostly, the agricultural pump-sets, shallow
machines, second-hand machinery, local transports, and the repair industry are
the key users of this mono-grade oil.
Earlier, the restriction on running unauthorized
light vehicles on the main roads has impacted the overall lubricants market.
However, many unscrupulous businessmen are involved
in recycled barrel oil business causes the availability of the lower-standard
barrel products.
Above all, most users are not aware of quality oils,
still which are the key barrier for this market.
For the last three years, the local oil traders have
been increased dramatically. By nature, they are the floating businessmen who
deal in this market beyond the value chain.
Most floating marketers are the barrel oil traders
especially works with mono-grade oil by the local name. Most of them are
involved in the lubricants oil business.
Unfortunately, this lubricants market lacks proper
value chain which is the main barrier to identify its nature. Moreover, no more
industry-oriented regulation brought by the government to monitor this trade
which has created an avenue for the irregular traders.
Market observers have identified this engine oil
market is one of the uncontrolled trades when we discuss the nature of
monograde engine oil market.
Still, the low-quality engine oil is a concern in
our country. And the absence of proper monitoring has opened the market for
recycled oil as base oil, and non-use of the proper additive by the illicit
lube blenders.
Tyre market in
Bangladesh is forecasted to grow at over 9% until 2020 on the back of growth in
automobile sales, advancements in public infrastructure, and
development-seeking government policies.
The government has
emphasized on the road infrastructure of the country, which has been
instrumental in driving vehicle sales in the country.
The tyre market
reached Tk 4,750 crore last year, up from about Tk 4,000 crore in 2017,
according to market insiders.
The commercial
vehicle tyre segment dominates this industry with around 80% of the market
share. At least 1.5 lakh pieces of tyres in the segment were sold in 2018.
In the commercial
vehicle tyre segment, the MRF’s market share is 30%. Apollo controls 5% of the
segment, Birla 10%, CEAT 3%, and Hankook 1%. The rest 51% is controlled by
non-branded Chinese tyres.
However, Bangladesh
mostly lacks in tyre manufacturing setups, which leads to tyre imports from
other countries as the only feasible option to meet the demand. The company
largely imports tyre from China, India, Indonesia, Thailand and Japan.
Automobile and tyre
sales in Bangladesh are expected to grow with the rising in purchasing power of
people as well as growing investments and joint ventures of foreign market
players. The country might become the exporting destination for global tyre
manufacturers.
Several global tyre
giants have also expressed interest in making significant investments by
setting up their manufacturing units in the country.
This reflects an
opportunity for local companies to set up an indigenous manufacturing base in
Bangladesh and also enables foreign players to set up their localized
production facilities to capture a significant market.
It can be said that,
the rise in automobile sales, improvement in public infrastructure, and growth
in purchasing power to drive the tyre market over the next five years.
The number of commercial vehicles is growing rapidly in
Bangladesh. Moving transport activities, as well as the recent economic growth,
made Bangladesh a potential market for commercial vehicles.
However, the overall automotive market is flourishing in
Bangladesh thanks to increasing sales of commercial and passenger vehicles.
Currently, the market size of the commercial vehicle is about Tk
4,200 crore whereas it was about Tk 2,000 crore a decade ago.
The market size of commercial vehicles grew 15% to 20% every year
over the last decade.
At least 35,000 units of commercial vehicles such as bus, truck,
auto-rickshaw, cargo van, human-haulier, pickup and tanker have been sold last
year.
Mostly because of the rise of the overall automotive sector, the
engine oil market has grown up around 10% to 12% in the last three years.
According to the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA), the
number of registered petrol and diesel-powered vehicles is 3,663,189 units.
In Bangladesh, automotive vehicles have increased by 2.5 times in
the last eight years. That is why the overall engine oil consumption raised
over 14% for the last four years.
Keeping pace with the growing commercial vehicles, the demand for
engine oils as well as the commercial vehicles in Bangladesh will rise.
So, the engine oil market for commercial vehicles is on the cusp
of significant change triggered by rising transportation. And, it will evaluate
how and when the fuel-run engine oil demand drives this market in the near
future.
Future Commercial Vehicle Oil Market
Bangladesh is yet to proactively work out an automotive roadmap
apart from the two-wheelers market.
So, the future of commercial vehicle oil market is linked with the
analysis and forecasts of the commercial vehicle market” may provide a complete
overview of this automotive market.
Information on leading companies across Bangladesh’s value chain
along with the latest industry developments and their impact on the players are
analyzed in detail.
However,
opportunities for partnerships to this commercial vehicle engine oil market may
work as a new channel to market are among the positive factors.
The
automotive vehicle market is thriving in Bangladesh thanks to increasing sales
of commercial and passenger vehicles fueled by expanding economic activities
and well-off consumers.
Moving
transport activities, as well as the recent economic growth, made Bangladesh a
potential market and it has been growing very fast for the last 10 years.
The
market growth is nearly 15% to 20% every year over the last decade.
The
automotive vehicle market comprises with the passenger cars, light commercial
vehicles, heavy trucks, buses, vans and motorcycles.
At
least 35,000 units of commercial vehicles such as bus, truck, auto-rickshaw,
cargo van, human-hauler, pickup and tanker have been sold last year.
In
2016, a total of 0.42 million automotive vehicles were registered in
Bangladesh, according to the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority.
Apart
from the passenger car and motorcycles, the number of registered petrol and
diesel-powered commercial vehicles is 3,663,189 units in number.
Mostly
because of the rise of the overall automotive sector, the engine oil market has
grown up around 10% to 12% in the last three years.
In
the road, automotive vehicles have increased by 2.5 times in the last eight
years. So, the demand for engine oils will rise keeping pace with the
increasing automotive vehicles.
That
is why the overall engine oil consumption raised over 14% for the last four
years. Now its current demand is around 160 million tonnes.
So,
the engine oil market for automotive vehicles is on the cusp of significant
change triggered by rising transportation.
Looking
into Future Automotive Lubricants Market
Bangladesh
is not proactively working out an automotive roadmap apart from the
two-wheelers,
