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If Lake Powell reservoir is useless – who will dare to build new giant dams...
NYT article “Unplugging the Colorado River” by Abrahm Lustgarten published right before World Fish Migration Day gives detailed description of water management options in drying Colorado River Basin....
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Kazakh President Calls for a Global Green Economy Roadmap
Paris Climate Agreement or Silk Road Initiative – according to Nursultan Nazarbayev -all major strategies are not comprehensive enough to advance development and deal with environmental...
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UNESCAP Secretary Concerned with Unsustainable Resource Extraction along the...
The first time a UN regional body established explicit cooperative program to facilitate sustainable development on the New Silk Road (OBOR). And we are happy to see that UNESCAP Secretary clearly...
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Déjà Vu Pipedream Threatens Lake Baikal and Challenges Common Sense
A proposal to divert Siberian lake water to China’s arid northwest meets with opposition, writes Eugene Simonov for the China Dialogue Lake Baikal in Russia holds 20% of the earth’s freshwater supplies...
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Mongolian and Russian NGOs Help to Create Right Climate for Paris Agreement
by SERGEY SHAPKHAEV External threats and their perceptions tend to reflect differences between a society’s various segments and groups—which, in turn, stem from problems on local, regional or global...
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“Green” Lords ‘greenwashing’ the Russian energy giant
A Baikal seal on Lake Baikal. By Per Harald Olsen – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0. London-listed En+ Group published its 2017 financial results with revenues exceeding USD 12 billion and “environmental...
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Long Awaited Consensus: Mongolia Nowadays Does Not Need Mega-Pipelines from...
As Mongolian Government is steering the discussion about the proposed dams in Lake Baikal – Selenge River basin from energy security to national water crisis it is important for civil society groups...
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Climate Change “Mitigation”– Poor Excuse for Harming the World Heritage
An article “Harmonizing World Heritage and Climate Measures. The Case of Lake Baikal” by Sergey Shapkhaev, Director, Buriat Regional Union for Baikal and Eugene Simonov, Coordinator of the Rivers...
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At the Climate COP24 the UN Agency Is Green-washing Large Dams in Latin...
Degradation of UN institutions catering to special interest groups has reached a new height. The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) in March 2018 started a partnership...
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Mongolia’s new Midterm Energy Program is incompatible with its own NDCs
Among non-island nations of the world, Mongolian people, likely, are now experiencing the worst consequences of climate change and the country’s government recently publicly welcomed climate skeptics...
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Pitfalls of the Mid-term Energy Program of Mongolia
The new Mid-term Energy Program of Mongolia disregards financial, environmental and climate commitments – may increase significantly Mongolia’s debt and carbon footprint. For a country that just...
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GEIDCO: a Harbinger of Equitable Green Future or a Salesman of China’s Excess...
Can one promote great common good on behalf of association of companies from 80 countries and then immediately extract tangible private gain from it? Please, be patient – read a string of news...
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Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) intends to co-finance the Rogun...
President Emomali Rahmon starts construction of Rogun Hydro in 2016 The AIIB announced that it is joining the ADB and EBRD in an effort to build a 76 kilometer road and a bridge in Tajikistan. One...
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Our Response to the Climate Bond Initiative’s Attempt to “Climatewash”...
Dynamics of RE Annual Additions Globally. Hydro Marked as Blue, Wind as Grey and Sun as Yellow (IRENA) As economic attractiveness of hydropower goes down world-wide, the sector seeks to find new...
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Watering the NDCs: New Guidance Document on Water’s Role in National Climate...
Recently the RwB contributed to development of a guidance document on taking water into account when developing climate mitigation and adaptation measures. Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA)...
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Freshwater ecosystems wiped out in the Climate’s Name: a new study on...
Small Hydro, supported by the International Finance Corporation, blocking Langarica River in a national park in Albania . by Cornelia Wieser As You, probably, know the main factor preventing rivers in...
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In September the RwB Coalition published ” Our Response to the Climate Bond Initiative’s Attempt to “Climatewash” Hydropower “. Now 281 CSOs from 75 countries representing all major river basins of...
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Happy 2020! Keep Our Rivers Wild!!!
Disclaimer: This is Amur River between Russia and China, not in Chile We got this Christmas card from our friends in the Americas and happy to share it with you as New Year gift! Our friends managed...
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“Clean hydropower” can do more harm than good
The Dead End Opinion by Paul Hockenos(CNN) Climate change is already wreaking lethal havoc on the world of flora and fauna. So, all hands on deck to save the planet, right? We’re behind in the chase...
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World Small Hydropower Development Report Demonstrates Diminishing Role of...
Enashiminskaya Hydo in Siberia The World Small Hydropower Development Report (WSHPDR) 2019 is the result of a collaborative effort between the United Nations Industrial Development Organization...
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