{"id":28636,"date":"2025-05-08T05:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/?p=28636"},"modified":"2025-05-08T07:03:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T14:03:47","slug":"financing-bangladesh-decarbonization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/resources\/financing-bangladesh-decarbonization\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Landscape and Opportunities to Finance the Decarbonization of Bangladesh's Apparel Manufacturing Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As of 2023, Bangladesh is among the top five countries with the largest potential for greenhouse gas emissions reductions in the apparel and textile industries, which accounts for more than 80% of the country\u2019s foreign export revenue and are well-positioned to deliver significant emissions reductions nationwide. However, manufacturers face major financial constraints: a $6.6 billion investment is needed to cut emissions in half by 2030, but only $1.8 billion is currently available or anticipated, leaving a $4.8 billion gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Financing-Bangladesh-Decarbonization.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Landscape and Opportunities to Finance the Decarbonization of Bangladesh's Apparel Manufacturing Sector<\/em><\/a> - created in collaboration with Development Financial International, Inc. (DFI) - outlines how the country can close that gap and realize its decarbonization potential through strategic finance tools. It also identifies proven, cost-effective interventions such as rooftop solar, LED retrofits, and waste heat recovery, building a clear roadmap to cut industry emissions in half by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of 2023, Bangladesh is among the top five countries with the largest potential for greenhouse gas emissions reductions in the apparel and textile industries, which accounts for more than 80% of the country\u2019s foreign export revenue and are well-positioned to deliver significant emissions reductions nationwide. However, manufacturers face major financial constraints: a $6.6 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":28641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,49],"tags":[111,112,113,110],"media-types":[55],"class_list":["post-28636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-category","category-thought-leadership-category","tag-bangladesh","tag-decarbonization","tag-financing","tag-report","media-types-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28636"},{"taxonomy":"media-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-types?post=28636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}