This white paper outlines the scope and challenges of developing a Bangladesh-specific Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) that incorporates Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) strategies. Although SCP holds significant mitigation potential across key sectoral value chains, the current NDCs remain conservative, often shaped by political reluctance and ongoing North-South debates on emission responsibilities. As a result, many SCP-relevant opportunities are being overlooked. Strengthening integration of SCP into the NDC framework could offer significant scope for emissions reductions, particularly in the private sector, but existing policy and institutional barriers must first be addressed.
This white paper explores the SCP scopes and challenges in Bangladesh’s climate-specific plans and strategies, reviews relevant documents having direct and indirect implications for SCP, and develops an analytical proposition based on 27 interviews with key informants, which were scheduled and structured objectively to identify policy spaces and key challenges, as well as how to integrate SCP into NDC 3.0.
