New Nation: Bangladesh lacks capacity to devise and enforce environmental regulations on a scale remotely commensurate with its needs. Densely populated cities experience a damaging range of health hazards while natural resources in rural regions are eroded by the demands of subsistence agriculture. Bangladesh has one of the lowest per capita levels of energy consumption in the world yet the country has been named in reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as the most …