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Designing Low Carbon Electricity Futures for African and Other Developing Countries
Wind and solar resources are abundant throughout the world, but their dependence on uncontrollable factors such as weather has been...
Right Priorities for Africa's Power Sector
An Evaluation of Dams Under the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) In 2012, African heads of state launched...
The World Bank and Dams Part 2: Dispelling Myths of Nam Theun 2
Given its fraught dams legacy, the World Bank promised that the Nam Theun 2 Dam in Laos would serve as...
Changing Tides for a Common Future: The MRC and Hydro-Diplomacy
The Hou Sahong Channel, Location of the Proposed Don Sahong Dam The Mekong River Commission (MRC), the only intergovernmental body...
The World Bank and Dams Part 1: Lessons Not Learned
As it rejoins a worldwide dam boom, the World Bank claims that the major impacts that characterized its dam legacy are...
Building Sustainability into the East African Power Pool
New Study Recommends Less Hydro, More Climate-Resilient Renewables UC Berkeley’s Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory and International Rivers have co-published...
Starving the Mekong: A Report on the Impacts of Cambodia’s Lower Sesan 2 Dam
The Lower Sesan 2 Dam in Northeastern Cambodia is arguably one of the most controversial hydropower projects being constructed on...
Lower Sesan 2: Same Company, Two Dams, One River Report
China’s enthusiasm for dam building has in recent years spilled over into the Mekong region. Development plans and construction for...
The Scramble for Water, Land and Oil in the Lower Omo Valley
The remote Omo watershed in East Africa encompasses life-giving rivers and a huge desert lake in both Kenya and Ethiopia....