RAJSHAHI, Nov 13, 2024 (BSS)- Social watchdogs at a meeting here unanimously viewed that reducing fossil fuel through promoting renewable energies can be a crucial means of protecting the environment and people.

Substantial and sustainable promotion of renewable energies, particularly solar power, has become indispensable to lessen the gradually mounting pressure on fossil fuel.
 
Side by side with the financial burden on the economy, fossil fuel has detrimental impacts on the environment but renewable energies have no bad impact on the economy and the environment.
 
So, the institutions and research entities concerned should come forward and work together to promote the sector after the best uses of the existing resources and potentialities.

Just Energy Transition Network Bangladesh (JETnet-BD), Paribartan and ActionAid jointly organized the meeting at Hotel Warisan in the city yesterday afternoon putting forward 14-point demands related to the issue.

Prof Siddharta Talukder from Rajshahi University, former chairman of Rajshahi Education Board Prof Deepkendra Nath Das, Director of National Women Lawyers Association Advocate Deel Sitara Chuni, Project Coordinator of ActionAid Razvi Hassan and Director of Paribartan Rashed Ibne Obayed addressed the meeting.
 
The speakers also unanimously viewed there is an enormous scope of reducing the gradually increasing pressure on fossil fuel through boosting use of renewable energies in both rural and urban areas.
 
Time has come to protect the natural resources including the wetlands and water bodies to restore the green atmosphere.
 
Prof Deepkendra Nath Das mentioned that instead of depending on only the fossil fuel emphasis should be given to enriching the renewable energy sources to face the energy challenges.
 
He attributed the availability of energy from different sources as vital for the present life in meeting the challenge of the ever-increasing demand for energy.

Prof Deepkendra Das highlighted the importance of phasing out coal-based power plants and creating a detailed action plan for building a renewable energy-dependent supply chain.

In his remarks, Prof Siddharta Talukder mentioned substantial and sustainable use of solar power like renewable energy can be the effective means of protecting life and environment.
 
Now time has come to transform the existing power supply-dependent irrigation system into solar power to lessen the gradually mounting pressure on electricity in the vast Barind tract.
     
He stressed the need for local-level technological innovations, such as electric rickshaw charging stations and solar microgrids, with women and youth involvement