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22,000 People Call on Mekong Governments to Cancel Xayaburi Dam
U.S. Senate Committee Calls for Delay in Xayaburi Dam Bangkok, Thailand – 22,589 people from 106 countries submitted an international...
Take Action to Protect Rivers during COP17
In today's changing climate, we need decentralized and diversified water and energy solutions that can best respond to increasingly unpredictable...
Hydropower in the CDM: Examining Additionality and Criteria for Sustainability
A study released by the University of California at Berkeley shows that large hydro projects under the UN’s Clean Development...
Hydroelectric Power: Spate of Dam Building Meets Resistance
Originally printed in the Financial Times. Peru’s Asháninka people have torn down the signs erected by Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction...
NGO Letter to Environment Ministers on COP 17
Dear Ministers, We, more than hundred civil society organisations from 35 countries across all continents, call on Parties to acknowledge...
World Bank to Lead Climate Finance Without Energy Strategy?
On the first day of COP17 in Durban, South Africa, we launched a report with a host of other organizations...
New Google Earth Animation Shows How Damming Rivers Will Worsen Climate Crisis
For Immediate Release International Rivers and Friends of the Earth International have teamed up to create a state-of-the-art Google Earth...
Brazilian Construction Company Cancels Plans for Mega-Dam in Peru
Odebrecht is withdrawing from a commitment to develop the Tambo-40 Dam on the Tambo River in the Peruvian Amazon. It...
Brazilian Construction Giant Odebrecht Withdraws from Peruvian Mega-Dam
For Immediate Release November 22, 2011 Lima, Peru: Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht announced yesterday that it would withdraw from a...
Analysis of International Environmental Laws Implicated by Decision to Approve Construction of the Xayaburi Dam
Laos may violate five points of international environmental law if it proceeds with the Xayaburi Dam as proposed, according to...