The 1,320-megawatt Maitree Su, commissioned by thermal power, is expected to burn 4. 75 million tons of coal per year.
India and Bangladesh on Wednesday inaugurated a coal-fired power plant near one of the world’s largest mangrove forests, despite environmental complaints from both countries that say it threatens the livelihoods of millions of people.
The 1,320-megawatt Maitree thermal power plant by power allocation is expected to burn 4. 75 million tonnes of coal per year and start operating a few weeks before the UN’s COP28 climate convention in Dubai.
The plant, built in Bangladesh, is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Sundarbans, one of the largest mangrove forests in the world.
Environmentalists say the power plant threatens the livelihoods of around two million people in the Sundarbans and could violate the United Nations Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.
The first part of the $2 billion power plant, financed by a $1. 6 billion loan from India, was commissioned last year.
The two leaders inaugurated cross-border rail and port connections between their countries.
“These projects are a shining example of win-win cooperation between our countries,” Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Wednesday in a virtual rite with India’s Narendra Modi.
Dhaka buys at least one million tonnes of Indian coal every year, but the dirty fuel for the new plant will come from Bangladesh.
The force’s plant will “enhance the security of the force in Bangladesh,” India’s Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement.
World leaders failed to agree on phasing out fossil fuels at September’s G20 summit in New Delhi, but subsidized the goal of tripling global renewable energy capacity and declared that restricting warming to 1. 5 degrees Celsius would require 43% relief from greenhouse gases. to 2030 to 2019 levels.
COP28 will provide the first official assessment of humanity’s efforts to deliver on the 2015 agreement and its ambition to restrict global warming “if imaginable to 1. 5 degrees C” from the pre-industrial era.
The global climate, over several years, has already warmed by around 1. 2°C, accompanied by a procession of natural disasters.
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