The Minister of natural resources of remote Buryatia Republic Mr. Yury Safyanov came to Moscow to seek response to extreme concerns voiced by local villagers living on Baikal lakeshore about Chinese dam building in upstream Mongolia. People of Buryat villages gathered 60days ago in Kabansk and requested from WB, Mongolian …
New bank plans to fund hydropower without public discussion on social and environmental protections As government ministers from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa gather in Washington, DC for the third board of governors meeting of the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) April 13 and 14, civil society groups …
RwB’s International Coordinator Eugene Simonov on March 5 took part in the 2016 Annual Meeting of Heilongjiang Provincial Association for Northeast Asian Studies/ in Harbin City. Environmental Section of the Meeting gathered members of the Amur-Okhotsk Consortium from Japan, Mongolia, China and Russia. Dr. Simonov summarized most important environmental …
EBRD-China tandem may exacerbate hydropower crisis in Europe? A wave of hydropower development fueled by European public funding and EU companies may be further exacerbated by China’s membership in EBRD. A new study, that Bankwatch deals with European public funding and EU companies, which are fuelling a wave of hydropower …
“Pure Growth Vitamins” from BRICS Magazine Huge cross-border projects that will be financed by new development institutes threaten to create dangerous differences in environmental standards ‘race to the bottom’. However, the problem can still be solved. Three separatet disasters in the Russian Far East in 2005, 2007, and 2010 that …
