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Press Release | World's largest hydro companies persist in failing the environment, community rights
Chinese corporations dominate hydro industry, fall short of meeting accepted international standards. OAKLAND, CA – A new report by International Rivers finds...
Watered Down: How do big hydropower companies adhere to social and environmental policies and best practices?
Healthy rivers are critical in sustaining communities and ecosystems. Yet our rivers around the world are under threat. As many...
Expert Commentary on the ‘Review of Design Changes Made for the Xayaburi Hydropower Project’
In this report, International Rivers commissioned two experts to provide comments on the Mekong River Commission’s ‘Review of Design Changes...
Report | Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Myanmar Hydropower Sector: Discussion Brief
This brief introduces the Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Myanmar Hydropower Sector and seeks to generate dialogue, including around the...
Report | Reckless Endangerment: Assessing Responsibility for the Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy Dam Collapse
One year after the tragic collapse of an auxiliary dam of the Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy Hydropower Project in Laos, this...
Catalyzing A Renewable Energy Transformation: Lessons learned from Multilateral Development Banks
A clean energy transformation is urgently needed to mitigate worst impacts of climate change and deliver power to the millions...
Renewable Riches: How Wind and Solar Can Power DRC and South Africa
International Rivers’ new study, “Renewable Riches,” has found that the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is endowed with abundant wind...
In Debt and In The Dark: Unpacking the Economics of DRC’s Proposed Inga 3 Dam
“In Debt and In The Dark” is the first in-depth assessment of the economics of the proposed 4,800 MW Inga...
Briefing on Pak Beng Dam Lawsuit
On 8 June 2017, Mekong communities in Thailand – represented by the Rak Chiang Khong Group – filed a lawsuit...
Nu River Conservation Studies: Biodiversity, Management, and Hydropower Development
The Nu/Salween River originates in the Tibetan plateau and flows south through Thailand and Burma before emptying into the Andaman...