Rivers without Boundaries

The Path of Hanergy Co. – from the Amur River to the HK courtroom

In August 2016 we draw Your attention to the leading "new clean energy" company Hanergy, which suffered a severe failure at HK Stock Exchange, and then proposed to Russian Ministry for Development of the Far East to revive an old plan for a giant dam to harness flow of the …

Russian International Affairs Council recommends to base Sino-Russian cooperation on the UNECE Environmental Conventions and UN SDGs.

  Ideas of the Green Silk Road Initiative were supported by the key foreign policy think tank in the field of Sino-Russian relations. Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) recently published an official report  of the Second International Conference “Russia and China: Taking on a New Quality of Bilateral Relations” that  …

NORTH EURASIA HYDROPOWER IN 2016

An Overview At the end 2016 the news from our sub-continent, North Eurasia, news are bittersweet but quite hopeful: 1. Mongolia-Russia-China: Chinas agencies and Exim Bank in early April 2016 have frozen a loan and preparatory construction works for 315 MW Eg River Hydro in Lake Baikal Basin in Mongolia …

Stop Ecuador Government from Suppressing Environmental and Indigenous Groups!

RwB#22122016 To: Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador; Walter Garcia, Minister of Environment; Minister of the Interior December 22, 2016 Dear Mr. President: We would like to express our concern about the advances of mega-mining in the Amazonian Shuar territory, where the community of Nankints in Morona Santiago province was evicted …

Kherlen River: Lifeline of the Eastern Steppe under threat

Report on biodiversity, water scarcity, and transboundary river basin management in fluctuating climate. Rivers without Boundaries Coalition continues documenting and analyzing transboundary basins of Dauria, hotspot of global biodiversity divided between China , Russia and Mongolia and not well known by the international community. New report is focusing on water …