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Bangladesh Carbon Program

Bangladesh carbon projects, prepared for international buyers through MRV, evidence, registry-readiness, and transparent transaction workflow.

Terminal Carbon is not a registry, an exchange, or a VVB. We help Bangladeshi project owners prepare projects for recognised standards (Verra, Gold Standard, GCC, JCM, Article 6.2 / 6.4 PACM) and run a structured transaction workflow once credits are issued.

Terminal Carbon does not issue carbon credits, does not guarantee credit issuance, and does not guarantee Article 6 authorization or buyer eligibility. Eligibility is confirmed project-by-project by the relevant standard, validation/verification body (VVB), and host-country authority.

Priority sectors

Where we are starting — and where we are deliberately not.

We lead with sectors that have hard, machine-readable MRV data. Land- and community-sensitive sectors come later, after proper safeguards.

Lead

Private solar PV, captive solar, utility-scale solar

Lead programme. Grid-export and captive plants with metered generation, PPAs, COD certificates and clear carbon-rights ownership.

Priority

Gas leakage and methane reduction

Industrial fugitive methane mitigation with continuous measurement.

Priority

Clean cooking with real usage MRV

Stove distribution programmes with sensor-based or attested usage data — not stove-count proxies.

Priority

Waste methane / landfill / wastewater

Methane capture and destruction at municipal landfills and industrial wastewater treatment.

Pipeline

Rice methane / AWD

Alternate wetting and drying programmes in delta paddy systems with telemetry and field MRV.

Later

Mangrove and ARR (later)

Onboarded only after land-tenure and community due diligence is complete. Not in the first cohort.

Lead product

Bangladesh Solar Carbon Program.

Our first programme. Captive, grid-connected and utility-scale solar prepared under recognised renewable-energy methodologies with metered generation, PPA and grid-interconnection evidence, and project-by-project additionality review.

Bangladesh-wideVerra / Gold Standard / JCM eligibility reviewed per project
Project lifecycle status

A project is not "credit available" until it is issued.

Every project on Terminal Carbon carries one of the lifecycle labels below. We do not collapse them into a single "verified" badge.

Draft

Project owner has started submission.

Pre-screened

Terminal Carbon has reviewed basic eligibility.

Methodology candidate

Possible fit with a methodology, not confirmed.

Under validation

Submitted to standard / VVB for validation.

Registered

Accepted by Verra, Gold Standard, JCM, GCC, PACM, etc.

Issued

Credits have been issued with serial numbers.

Host-country authorized

Bangladesh authorization / LoA obtained where required.

Full lifecycle, including monitoring, verification, host-country authorization, available-for-transfer and retirement, is documented in What we do and don't do.

Buyer routes

We prepare projects against the buyer's regulatory route — not the other way around.

Buyer eligibility is determined by the buyer's jurisdiction and the standard route chosen for each project. We do not assert that any given project is eligible for any specific compliance regime without that route being formally confirmed.

Japan — JCM-ready pipeline

Bangladesh has a Joint Crediting Mechanism with Japan. Solar and methane projects prepared with conservative calculations and full government-process documentation.

Korea — Article 6.2 / authorized credits

Bangladesh has a bilateral cooperative approach with Korea. Buyer data rooms structured for K-ETS-eligibility review by the buyer; we do not pre-certify K-ETS eligibility.

UAE — voluntary and institutional buyers

Introductions to UAE voluntary and institutional buyers and approved counterparties. Terminal Carbon does not operate a public exchange in the UAE.

Global voluntary buyers (post-issuance)

Once credits are issued and (where required) host-country authorized, projects become available for offtake or transfer.

Programme roadmap

Solar first. Methane and waste next. Land-based last.

Now
Bangladesh Solar Carbon Program — intake

PPAs, COD documents, generation data, grid-export meters, EIA/land documents, additionality memo and standard-route selection per plant.

In progress
Next 60–90 days
Methodology and buyer-route selection

Per-project route decision: JCM, Article 6.2 (Korea), Gold Standard, Verra VCS, GCC or voluntary-only — with an explicit eligibility memo.

Up next
3–6 months
MRV ingestion + VVB engagement

SCADA / meter data ingestion, evidence vault, calculator versions and VVB access portal.

Planned
6–12 months
Buyer transaction room

KYC/KYB, NDA, project data room, LOI/ERPA workflow, registry transfer tracker, retirement evidence storage.

Planned
12 months+
Beyond solar

Gas leakage, clean cooking with real MRV, waste methane, rice AWD, brick kilns. Mangrove and ARR only after community and tenure safeguards.

Planned
Get involved

For project owners, buyers, and partners working on Bangladesh carbon.

If you operate a Bangladeshi project, lead procurement at a Japanese, Korean or Gulf buyer, or work in Article 6 / host-country authorization — we want to hear from you.