Energy
 Energy security is the most
critical issue for sustainable development. It indicated
the availability of energy in different forms at all
time to the users according to their needs at reasonable
and affordable prices. As energy is considered
essential for economic development its production,
supply, transfer, transmission and sustainable use is
every crucial for the nation.
Bangladesh has a natural gas
resource potential of 8.43 TCF with 95% probability,
65.7 TCF with 5% probability, with a mean potential of
32.12 TCF. The offshore has a potential of 2.44 TCF with
a 95% probability and 17.37 TCF with 5% probability with
a mean potential of 8.05 TCF.
Fishery
 Bangladesh lies between the
Himalayan mountains and the Bay of Bengal in the delta
of the River Ganges and Brahmaputra. It commands
jurisdiction over 166 000 sq. km of water area,
including the 200-mile EEZ. One fifth of the population
live in coastal areas. Most of them depend on marine
resources for their livelihood. Fisheries plays a
conspicuous role – through nutrition, employment
generation and foreign exchange earnings.
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Coral
Reef
 39
species of living corals have been identified so far.
Among them the species of Porifies, Favites,
Goniopora, Cyphastrea and Goniastrea are most abundant.
The corals are represented by 7 families. A number of soft
corals and Zoanthids have also been recorded. But these
living corals will soon become dead as a result of
neotectonic activity on the island (the island is now
uplifting approximately at a rate of 19 mm/year).
The terminology for coral reef
classification pre-dates that of Ser. Charles Darwin,
who formal classified and described the various types of
coral reef formations under three broad categories
namely the: i) Fringing reefs, ii) Barrier reefs and
iii) Atolls. In Bangladesh Coral Reefs of St.
Martin’s Island are in danger.
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Mangrove Forests
 The coastal region houses several mangrove ecosystems.
Mangroves are available in the form of natural forests (Sundarban)
and planted (in Barisal, Noakhali, Chittagong and Cox's
Bazar Coastal area) forests together covering about 50% of
the forest area of Bangladesh. These mangroves forests are
transitional zones between fresh and marine waters, and
are rich in marine and terrestrial flora and fauna.
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Tourism in coastal areas
 Miles
of golden sands, towering cliffs, surfing waves, rare
conch shells, colorful Pagodas, Buddhist Temples and
delightful sea-food - all this makes what Cox's Bazar is
today , the tourist capital of Bangladesh, The World's
longest unbroken (120 km.) beach slopes here down to the
blue waters of the Bay of Bengal against the picturesque
background of a chain of hills covered with deep
forests.
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