Dive summary:

• Officials at Trust Bank announced this weekend that by the end of 2015 the bank will fund 5,000 biogas facilities.
• Trust Bank, the leader in green financing in 2012, is pushing its home country of Bangladesh into the biogas market.
• The biogas will provide clean fuel across rural areas of Bangladesh, greatly reducing environmental strains put upon the country.

From the article:

“Bangladesh could be the first green country in the world if we could set up 40 lakh biogas plants,” said Mozammel Haque, chairman of Enterprise Development Company.

Environment and Forests Minister Hasan Mahmud echoed the army chief's views, urging all commercial banks to increase their green banking activities, at least for the sake of the future generation.

“Our tensions over the environment will be reduced if we could establish at least one biogas plant at every village of Bangladesh,” said Mahmud. ...