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Interview with Daniel Kammen, new World Bank Clean-energy czar
Getting to a Green Energy Future Daniel Kammen has just been appointed “clean energy czar” at the World Bank –...
Hydrodependency in Africa: Risky Business
From September 2010 World Rivers Review The world gets about 20% of its electricity from hydropower, but in Sub-Saharan Africa...
Interview: Climate Change, Rivers and Dams – We're in Hot Water
From September 2010 World Rivers Review Rivers are the planet’s lifelines, but the double threat of human interventions combined with...
Protecting Rivers and Rights: the Promise of the WCD
Ten years after the World Commission on Dams (WCD) report, the WCD is still our best roadmap towards ensuring that...
Gabon's Dark Side of Dams and Mines
An independent study released this month by Gabonese NGO, Brainforest, documents the devastation caused by uranium and manganese mines in...
Gibe 3: AfDB, EIB out. Who's in?
Ethiopia’s Gibe 3 Dam remains the most destructive dam being built today. According to the official project website, Ethiopia plans...
Comments on Bujagali Hydropower Project's Second Application (Uganda)
To understand the largely fictional nature of this application to the CDM, one needs only to read the first line...
The Gibe 3 Dam – A Test Case for China’s Role in Africa
The Gibe 3 Dam in Ethiopia is Africa’s most destructive dam project. So far, the Ethiopian government has not managed...
Gibe III Threatens World Heritage Sites
Letter to the Secretariat of the World Heritage Centre (UNESCO) We are writing to raise concerns about two endangered World...
Who Said It Couldn't Be Done?
The most comprehensive guidelines for large dams that protect the rights of river-dependent communities were outlined by the World Commission...