Context:

The industrialization has long been suspected to be one of the major contributors to air pollution. Quite often, emissions from industries are cited as the cause of air pollution and there are calls to act to curb these effects. However, simply stopping industrial activities is not always the solution. And it's also important to introduce industrial practices which can help reduce pollution without stopping industry. In Bangladesh, the process has already started with industries taking initiative to seek out solutions. For example, the brick industry is already implementing a type of offset scheme. 3% of brick plants in Bangladesh are now using green technology to manufacture bricks while emitting lower GHG.

While this is a step in the right direction, we need to be moving much faster and come up with more ideas and solutions on how to reduce industrial air pollution. This means new ideas on upgrading current industrial practice. In order for the industry to move away from these pollution heavy practices; suitable, practical, and economic alternatives must also play their part.

What’s needed right now is for new perspectives to bring in ideas on how to inject innovation into the industry to reduce emissions. In order for industry actors to more readily access and adopt these alternative procedures and technologies, they have to be customizable to suit their needs and provide incentives that would make them commercially more viable.

Objectives:

The core objective of the teams who pick the ‘Industrial & Commercial Technology solutions’ theme is to come up with innovative ideas/processes and technology which helps the industry reduce emissions without giving up productivity.

• The output should include the overall objective of the mechanism (which industrial issue is it addressing), the component development plan.
• Guidelines on how the mechanism would be acquired and adopted.
• Outline the key benefits for enterprises who adopt it.
• What the ideal usage scenario would look like.

Reference: 

OP-ED: Clearing the air