{"id":406795,"date":"2021-03-24T11:16:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T05:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=406795"},"modified":"2021-03-24T12:25:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T06:55:06","slug":"japan-eyes-overseas-coal-units-in-bangladesh-ignores-climate-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/japan-eyes-overseas-coal-units-in-bangladesh-ignores-climate-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan eyes overseas coal units in Bangladesh, ignores climate pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the last countries in the world to support coal-fired generation overseas is considering financing new capacity in Bangladesh. <\/p>\n<p>The Japan International Cooperation Agency said in an email it\u2019s conducting an environmental and social impact assessment for an expansion to the Matarbari power plant. JICA already agreed to finance the first 1.2 gigawatt phase of the project that is scheduled for completion in 2024, but hasn\u2019t decided if it will finance the expansion, which would double the facility\u2019s capacity. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn spite of difficulties, my government decided to do a survey and research on unit 3 and 4,\u201d Naoki Ito, the Japanese ambassador to Bangladesh, said Thursday during a webinar hosted by the Centre for Policy Dialogue in Bangladesh, referring to the expansion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the last countries in the world to support coal-fired generation overseas is considering financing new capacity in Bangladesh. The Japan International Cooperation Agency said in an email it\u2019s conducting an environmental and social impact assessment for an expansion to the Matarbari power plant. JICA already agreed to finance the first 1.2 gigawatt phase of the project that is scheduled for completion in 2024, but hasn\u2019t decided if it will finance the expansion, which would double the facility\u2019s capacity. \u201cIn spite of difficulties, my government decided to do a survey and research on unit 3 and 4,\u201d Naoki Ito, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}