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The World Bank is Bringing Back Big, Bad Dams
Originally published in The Guardian, Environment Blog Kariba Dam on the Zambezi RiverBy Alamy The big, bad dams of past...
Development Banks Step Up Lending for Hydropower, Sustainability Remains Focus
Leading multilateral development banks have recently stepped up financing of large hydropower projects after a decade-long slowdown due to environmental...
Nelson Mandela's Speech at the Publication of the WCD Report
Nelson Mandela honored the World Commission on Dams with a speech at the launch of the WCD’s final report in...
A Sustainable Energy Future is Within Our Grasp
The staggering growth in renewable energy has the potential to fundamentally change the way we generate and use power. Previously...
Journeys: Stories of Aha! Moments
Each of us who works to change the world is on a journey. And each of these journeys begins with...
Rendezvous Wrap Up
When we invited you to Rendezvous with International Rivers on June 9, 2013, we had no idea what an exhilarating...
PR: International Activists Block Ilisu Dam Site
Amazon indigenous leaders join protest demanding protection of World Heritage site in Turkey FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hasankeyf, Turkey: Representatives of...
Greenwashing Dams Factsheet
A dam industry effort threatens to greenwash dams and undermine the recommendations of the World Commission on Dams (WCD). The...
Gathering Along the Upper Tigris River
I’m heading to the Tigris River next week with a bundle of recent news articles under my arm that sets...
World Bank Turns to Hydropower to Square Development with Climate Change
This article originally appeared in The Washington Post World Bank President Jim Yong Kim attends the Fragility Forum this month...