, April 27 -- Bangladesh's ongoing energy crisis may ease temporarily but it cannot be fully resolved without a decisive shift to renewable energy, said the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) on Monday.

"We must think beyond fossil fuels," Moazzem said at the 4th Bangladesh-China Renewable Energy Forum organised by CPD under the theme "Transforming Crisis into Opportunities: Renewable Energy Development under the New Government", at a hotel in Dhaka.

"The crisis that fossil-fuel dependency has created across the world is not something that will be resolved overnight. Bangladesh needs to seriously consider alternatives in its energy sector," he said.

The veteran economist underscored China's pioneering role in the global renewable energy ...