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Greater Mekong Subregion Energy Investments: Concerns and Recommendations
This briefing paper, “Re-Assessing Greater Mekong Subregion Energy Investments”, provides an overview and critical analysis of the large-scale energy investments prioritized...
Re-Assessing Greater Mekong Subregion Energy Investments
This briefing on the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) energy investments is jointly published by Mekong Watch and International Rivers. It...
The World Bank and Dams Part 2: Dispelling Myths of Nam Theun 2
Given its fraught dams legacy, the World Bank promised that the Nam Theun 2 Dam in Laos would serve as...
The World Bank and Dams Part 1: Lessons Not Learned
As it rejoins a worldwide dam boom, the World Bank claims that the major impacts that characterized its dam legacy are...
Activist Guides to Sinohydro’s Environment and Social Policies
To support local NGOs and communities understanding of the different standards and commitments applicable to Sinohydro projects around the...
Dirty Energy – Out of the Green Climate Fund
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) was formally established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in December 2011, although...
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Fact Sheet
Rendering of GERD Ethiopia is building one of the largest dams in the world, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD),...
Congo’s Energy Divide Factsheet
HYDROPOWER FOR MINES AND EXPORT, NOT THE POOR The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been ‘rebuilding’ its power grid...
The Lower Mekong Dams: A Transboundary Water Crisis
Updated Factsheet The governments of Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam are planning to build eleven large hydropower dams on the...