The 2nd Bangladesh Circular Economy Summit is going to be organized by Bangladesh Apparel Exchange (BAE) in collaboration with the GIZ Bangladesh and in association with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Bangladesh on Tuesday at Radisison Blu, Water Garden hotel in Dhaka.
There will be four plenary sessions, three panel discussions and one breakout session in the summit all aim to make the shift from linear model to circular sift in the apparel and textile industries of Bangladesh.
In the opening ceremony of the summit Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Minister of Textiles & Jute, will be the Chief Guest while Siddiqur Rahman, former President of BGMEA; Thijs Woudstra, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Bangladesh; and Jan Janowski, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Germany in Bangladesh will be the Special Guests at the opening.
The four plenary sessions will be on ‘Formalizing the Informal Jhoot Sector’, ‘Closing the Loop of Textile Waste’, ‘Circular Design: Reality vs Challenges’ and ‘Transparency & Traceability in Circularity’.
The presentation on ‘EU Due Diligence and Legislations on Circularity’ will be given by Charles Whiteley, Head of the Delegation, Delegation of the European Union in Bangladesh; the presentation on ‘Market Incentives for Eco-design: The Case of Eco-modulation’ will be given by Professor Harri Kalimo, Co-Director of the 3E (Environment, Economy and Energy) Research Center, Brussels School of Governance; the presentation on ‘A National Circular Textile Roadmap for Bangladesh’ will be given by Patrick Schroeder, Senior Research Fellow, Chatham House.
Mostafiz Uddin, Founder and CEO of Bangladesh Apparel Exchange (BAE) said: “Circularity becomes an important aspect of fashion sustainability. The objective of the Bangladesh Circular Economy Summit is to accelerate the momentum circularity in the apparel and textile industries of the country.”
