Abstract

The study focuses on the potentialities of the brickfields in Bangladesh of deforesting and emitting greenhouse gases due to the consumption of fuel-wood and fossil fuel. The result was analyzed based on the observation of 12 brick fields in Hathazari Upazilla, Chittagong, Bangladesh. The methodological approach followed the procedures outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for conducting inventory of deforestation and greenhouse gas emission. It was estimated that due to the consumption of wood fuel in the brickfields of Bangladesh, the total amount of deforested wood would be 42,48,600m3 encompassing 14,65,020m3 round wood and 27,83, 580m3 branches annually. By considering all wood fuel and fossil fuel, it was estimated that, the total emissions from all the brickfields of Bangladesh would be 40,57,1 10tonsof CO2, 17,700tons of CH4, 1,54, 920tonsof CO, 123tons of N2O, 4,410tons of NOx and 2,880tons of NO per annum while the total carbon released in the atmosphere would be I 1,06,490tons annually.