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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...
10 Ways to Protect Rivers from Climate Change and Dams
Healthy rivers are critical for supporting life on Earth. They are especially necessary in light of the additional stresses that...
Comments on the Nam Ngum 5 Hydropower Project (Lao PDR)
Submitted to the China Environmental United Certification Center Co., Ltd. We are writing to express our concerns over the application...
Court Rules Against Indigenous Rights in Belo Monte Hearing
Decision violates Brazil’s Constitution and international human rights convention; appeal to Supreme Court expected Brasilia, Brazil -A district federal court...