Tajikistan’s authoritarian government is building the world’s highest dam with World Bank financing. Critics say there may have been irregularities in the project. Tajikistan belongs to the World Bank voting constituency led by Switzerland. When completed, the Rogun Dam in Tajikistan is set to stand 335 metres high. It would …
Over the past decade, energy officials and climate activists have grown accustomed to celebrating the rapid decrease in solar and wind power generation costs. However, in 2025, it was energy storage, not renewable generation, that provided a cause for celebration. Hydropower now faces pressure from the development of other storage …
The rapid expansion of renewable energy in Central Asia is creating new risks for the region’s vulnerable ecosystems. To prevent conflict between climate targets and environmental protection, a coalition of public environmental organizations (including Rivers without Boundaries) has submitted a package of recommendations to energy and environmental ministries across Central …
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has released the first of its two annual statistical reports on renewable energy capacity additions for 2025. As is customary, a revised edition will follow in approximately four months, incorporating government-submitted data that typically undergoes more rigorous verification and tends to yield more conservative …
Over ten years of its existence, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has considered just ten hydropower projects for financing. Three were cancelled, seven received approvals. Only one was implemented without co-financiers — a refinancing of an already-built hydropower plant in Vietnam. This record speaks for itself: the bank is …
The transboundary impact assessment for Tajikistan’s Rogun Hydropower Plant (HPP) fails to meet World Bank environmental and social standards and contains fundamental shortcomings, according to a new report by the international environmental coalition Rivers without Boundaries. The assessment relies on outdated data from 2014 and uses static models that do …
