Benefits
Improved livelihoods
By checking for potentially dangerous and polluting leaks near their homes or businesses, the projects have positively impacted over 1m customers, affecting more than 4 million people.
Energy security
Improvements in the consistency of gas pressure for small businesses and households, enhancing access to reliable energy and reducing reliance on burning wood or other biomass for cooking.
Public health & safety
The projects improve local air quality by reducing atmospheric methane and significantly lowers the risk of gas explosions.
Economic benefits
By saving domestically produced gas, the projects reduce the need for Bangladesh to import expensive Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), improving the country's balance of payments.
Job creation & technology transfer
The projects have created numerous well-paying, skilled jobs for university graduates and successfully transferred advanced technology, materials, and techniques to the local workforce.
Thanks to our approach, we have received both the Core Carbon Principles label and an “A” rating from BeZero for all projects.
Sustainable development
Brawa Carbon’s Leak Detection and Repair projects support the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN.
Affordable and clean energy
These projects enhance energy security by reducing natural gas leakage in the gas companies’ distribution networks. By implementing advanced Leak Detection and Repair (LDAR) procedures, the projects minimize waste of a primary energy source.
This ensures a more reliable and efficient supply of natural gas for all consumers in Bangladesh, directly contributing to the sustainability of the nation's energy infrastructure.
Decent work and economic growth
These projects have directly stimulated local employment by creating dozens of new long-term positions and hundreds of short-term jobs during their initial implementation.
They promote decent work by providing employees with specialized, high-skilled training in advanced LDAR technologies. This not only offers stable income but also enhances the local workforce's technical capacity, fostering sustainable economic development in the region.
Industry, innovation and infrastructure
These initiatives drive industrial innovation by introducing and operationalizing advanced LDAR technologies to upgrade Bangladesh's gas distribution infrastructure. By systematically identifying and repairing leaks, the projects significantly improve the resource efficiency and safety of the existing networks.
This modernization serves as a model for sustainable industrial practices and resilient infrastructure development.
Sustainable cities and communities
These projects improve urban safety and air quality. Each repaired methane leak reduces the risk of fires and explosions for customers who live and work near the gas equipment.
Furthermore, by cutting fugitive methane emissions—a key precursor to harmful tropospheric ozone—the project helps diminish a significant public health risk, contributing to safer and more sustainable cities.
Responsible consumption and production
The projects directly promote responsible production patterns by minimizing the loss of natural gas, a finite resource.
By repairing leaks in the distribution system, they ensure that more of the extracted gas reaches end-users for productive economic purposes rather than escaping into the atmosphere. This reduction of waste embodies the principles of efficient resource management and sustainable production.
Climate action
These projects take direct action to combat climate change by significantly reducing fugitive methane emissions, a greenhouse gas over 80 times more potent than CO2 over a 20-year period.
By systematically detecting and repairing gas leaks, the projects prevent large quantities of methane from entering the atmosphere, directly mitigating its impact on global warming and demonstrating a tangible commitment to climate action.