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A Billion Reasons to Invest in Distributed Clean Energy Access
From June 2012 World Rivers Review Today the world’s population is growing at about the same rate as the population...
Sinohydro Projects Overseas
This spreadsheet, downloadable below, contains 203 dam projects the Sinohydro Corporation is involved in outside of China. For some of...
Tropical Dams Dispel Clean Energy Myth
Dead trees in the Petit Saut reservoir, French Guiana Tropical reservoirs are a “methane factory, continuously removing carbon from the...
World Bank Needs to Make Infrastructure Work for the Poor
Kikwit is a town of almost one million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Its inhabitants have no...
Hydro CDM Hall of Shame
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is meant to catalyze climate-friendly and sustainable projects in low-income countries. Instead, it’s provided massive...
Report Calls on New World Bank President to Change Course on Infrastructure
Infrastructure lending has once again become the World Bank’s core business. A new report by International Rivers reviews the Bank’s...
Infrastructure for Whom?
This report by International Rivers challenges the top-down approach to infrastructure projects promoted by the World Bank and the powerful...
Adapting to a Warming World
Even under the most optimistic scenarios of coordinated global action to cut climate pollution, we face an era of rapid...
Can Jim Yong Kim Reinvent the World Bank?
Jim Yong Kim – a public health expert, president of Dartmouth College and astute rapper – is the US government’s...