Rivers without Boundaries

OBOR: One Bridge – One River ? Sino-Russian Cooperation in Infrastructure Failed the First Test

  We always wonder how to measure progress of cooperation under China’s One Belt-One Road Initiative. Many different matrices and indices are being suggested by various authors. But some straightforward questions also help: Does project\program develop people-oriented economy in countries-partners? Do two sides have capacity to communicate and cooperate on …

"Green" means not causing harm! Appeal to the Green Climate Fund

NGOs appeal to the Board of the Green Climate Fund to abstain from large dams and do better risk assessment   Friends of Earth initiated an appeal to the Green Climate Fund that may become another pocket to enrich large corporations and international banks instead of becoming a vehicle for …

We and Amur River Floods -Lesson (Un)learned?

The topic for the book with such teasing title  was selected due to outstanding flood that took place on transboundary Amur River in summer and autumn of 2013 and need to explore feasible options for integrated flood management jointly implemented by Russia and China. Now, as in September 2016 the …

Hanergy Solar Giant wants to dam the largest free flowing river of Asia?

Great Amur River saved by rivalry and mistrust may be degraded in the name of friendship. Taipingou -mysterious heart of the Amur-Heilong river The new vision of "Ecological Civilization" put forward by China’s Communist Party is coming to a decisive test as leading "new clean energy" company Hanergy, which suffered …

Mongolian Law with Long Name: now history in pictures

Sukhgerel Dugersuren (OT Watch and RwB Mongolia cooperated with the  Front Line Defenders  to prepare a chapter of the forthcoming nonfiction graphic novel about human rights defenders challenging extractive industries around the world. We republish it with kind permission of Sukhgerel. Mongolia is a new star on the extractive industry’s …

World Bank Inspection Panel decided to give the MINIS Project one more year on probation…

  OFFICIAL ANOUNCEMENT: “The WB Board on July 20 approved the Panel’s recommendation to defer for a second time a decision on whether the Panel should investigate a complaint related to the Mining Infrastructure Investment Support (MINIS) Project in Mongolia. In a February 2015 Request for Inspection, the complainants had …