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GOVERNMENTAL STEPS FOR POLLUTION CONTROL IN BANGLADESH
The ‘Ministry of Environment and Forest (MOEF)’of Bangladesh is primarily responsible for environmental protection. It was created in 1989. The MOEF has taken some steps to control the environmental pollution of Bangladesh.
National Environmental Management Action:
Plan (NEMAP).
The government has taken a project named NEMAP to integrate environment with the development in a policy framework. It provides a guideline for promoting effective management of resources, raising awareness among the people and
improvement of environmental degradation
Environmental Acts, Rules and Laws:
The government of Bangladesh has modified environmental acts, rules and laws to improve environmental condition
Environment court has already been established to take prompt legal action against environmental pollution. The DOE has been empowered to punish the offenders of environmental rules.
Control of Air Pollution:
Recently the DOE has taken some measures to carry out surveys on identification and control of polluting industries, protecting habitats, examining the use of compressed natural gas in industries, setting environmental standards and controlling river and automobile pollution on environmental management. It also conducts vehicular emission measurements at Dhaka city.
Banning of Polyethylene Bags:
Most of the sewage lines of Dhaka city have been blocked by indiscriminate dumping of polyethylene bags over the
Environment today is worsening along with time and worse, it does not seem to draw the attention of the people. The main cause of this crisis in the name of development and Industrialisation. The saddest truth no one gives a ‘DAMN’. If nothing is done, it will definitely be an impediment to developments and is not only happening in Malaysia but around the globe. All of us living here on this planet planet are losing our conscience
The environmental protection agency has been stepping up its mandate of ensuring safer and better environment for not only the business operators, buts also the society as a whole. In order to achieve this goal of environmental protection, there has been the creation of environmental protection agency that has ensured that all the businesses, irrespective of their size and type, strive to ensure that the environment is protected for the benefit of current and future generations.
Afterwards, draft of Environmental Statement can be prepared and publicly consulted. Then final version of ES can be formed.
Sullivan, Thomas F. P, and Thomas Lynch Adams. Environmental Law Handbook. Rockville, MD.: Government Institutes, 1997. Print.
I grew up in a fairly average Los Angeles suburb, so I don’t have the tight knit connection with nature that some from more rural locations might have. My interaction with nature in my early years was quite limited. I went on a few hikes with my family and occasionally went to the beach. But the one aspect of nature I’ve always been fascinated with is space. While this may not be what most of us think of the “environment”, it has deeply impacted the way I see the world.
Bangladesh is a very weak and undeveloped country and has some of the worst health and nutrition data. Bangladesh is a parliamentary democracy with 6 divisions and 64 local districts. Bangladesh used to be a part of Pakistan before the turmoil in Pakistan caused Bangladesh to become its own independent country in the 1970s. Much of the nutrition, education and economy is damaged because of the swell in population growth and political issues. in 2000 the World Health Organization approximated 35 to 77 percent of the water in Bangladesh contains arsenic. However, the country has improved and education, the economy and nutrition baselines have risen closer to expected outcomes.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency is a government agency whose purpose of being created was to protect human health and the environment by enforcing regulation based on the laws of the state. The agency since its creation has given the US a lot of advantages, but has also brought about some disadvantages ("EPA at 40: Pros and cons - Los Angeles Ecopolitics” p. 4). One of the advantages brought about by the EPA is that industrial air pollutants have been controlled. By issuing regulations to the power plants the agency will significantly reduce air pollution caused by the plants. The control of solid waste disposal will also be advantageous to the country.
1969 . Senator Henry M. Jackson proposed and helped write S 1075, the bill that eventually became the National Environmental Policy Act. The law was signed by President Nixon on January 1, 1970. NEPA was the first of several major environmental laws passed in the 1970s. It declared a national policy to protect the environment and created a Council on Environmental Quality in the Executive Office of the President. To implement the national policy, NEPA required that a detailed statement of environmental impacts be prepared for all major federal actions significantly affecting the environment. The "detailed statement"
Is Brunei’s water cleaner than the water of Citarum River, the world’s dirtiest river in Indonesia? It sure is but that does not mean we should ignore the fact that it is polluted. Dirty water has also contributed to global warming; a problem the whole world is trying to reduce. Floating garbage on the water is a sight nobody wants to see and no aquatic animals would want to live or not be able to live in dirty water which could reduce tourists coming to the country which could affect the country’s economy and could reduce the country’s fish resources. The rivers are important sources of water and food for any country. Including Brunei, a country so small it could not afford to lose these important sources. The Brunei government and the local
The agencies should decide if the action meets the threshold requirements or not. And prepare an EIS which describes in detail the effect of proposed activities. Also, the status makes it clear when the EIS must be completed and published the proposed rule in the Federal Register. is primarily procedural and timing is always the main theme. The agencies should combine NEPA with other planning as soon as possible to reflect the environmental values. And the NEPA needs agencies to go deep into the environmental consequences. EA shall be prepared early enough to serve an important contribution to making the decision.
Numerous countries of the world today are facing environmental problems such as pollution, but looking at some places of the world where people are losing their lives everyday due to pollution is a tragic sight. Kabul, Afghanistan’s largest city made to house 1 million citizens and have a maximum flow of 75,000 cars today houses 5 million citizens and has a flow of 400,000 cars (not including busses). People of Kabul are facing several environmental problems each day, including water pollution, war, and air pollution, causing someone to lose their life everyday. Suffering from three decades of war is one of the causes of air pollution, water pollution, and mass destruction of afghanistan’s infrastructure. On top of all the pollution, Afghanistan
Environmental can includes the natural resources, concern in this area is shortage of raw material and increased pollution.
In 1993, the Japanese government restructured their environmental law system and legislated the Basic Environmental Law. The law includes restriction of industrial emissions, restriction of products, restriction of wastes, improvement of energy conservation, promotion of recycling, restriction of land utilization, arrangement of environmental pollution control programs, relief of victims and provision for sanctions (Okafor, 2011). There are three basic environmental principles that the Basic Environmental Law, which are:
In 2000, The United Nations announced the Millenium Decleration goals (MDG) and pledged to invest money on a stratergy in order to achieve these goals. They also aim to improve the economic social and environmental wellbeing of Bangladesh. The following report will outline and analyse two strategies as well as evaluate these stratergies against three criteria; social, economic and environment in order to improve the development and overall wellbeing for the people of bangladesh.
Bangladesh is one of the largest deltas in the world which is highly Penetrable to Natural Disasters because of its Geographical location, Flat and low-lying landscape, Poverty, Population density, Illiteracy, Lack of Institutional setup etc. Similarly the Physical, Social as well as Economic states of Bangladesh are very typical to any of the most Penetrable countries to Natural Disasters in the world . The total land area is 147,570 sq. km. consists mostly of Floodplains (almost 80%) leaving major part of the country (with the exception of the north-western highlands) prone to flooding in the rainy season. Moreover, the adverse affects of Climate Change – especially High Temperature, Cyclones and Sea-level Rise, Storm Surges, Salinity Intrusion, Heavy Monsoon Downpours etc. has aggravated the overall Economic Development scenario of the country to a great extent.