Tag: <span>Hydropower assessments</span>

What’s wrong with Silk Road Dams in Lake Baikal Basin?

The Silk Road Initiative lacks clear environmental safeguards and specific green development guidelines. The China-backed Egin Gol Hydropower Project in Mongolia could disturb the sensitive ecosystem of the lake. Every Chinese person knows about one place in Siberia – Lake Baikal. It is not necessarily famous for its unique biodiversity …

"Hi, WB President Jim Kim, STOP DAMS, for we do not have other planet to be resettled to!"

Despite overwhelming evidence, that large dams are no solution to energy and climate and damage severely our environment, the WB top official stubbornly support suicidal course his institution is taking. He bluntly ignores the fact that by supporting large dams everywhere from Mongolia to Africa his institution is destroying most …

Would Ecological Civilization take the Silk Road?

  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?

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 …

Save the Lake Baikal – a victim of climate and hydropower

An appeal  to the Paris Climate Summit in from the Northeast Asia’s leading environmental groups and research institutions Many government and industry players market large hydropower, as a "solution for climate change", while in reality it often exacerbates climate change, impacts on resilience of aquatic ecosystems and diminishes the adaptation …