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Reality Check for Guatemala’s Energy Plans
From June 2012 World Rivers Review Efficiency and Renewables Could Forestall Dams, Study Shows In 2008, International Rivers’ staff visited...
Turkish Dam Boom Threatens Anatolian Rivers
From June 2012 World Rivers Review In recent years, dam building in Turkey has increased by leaps and bounds. River...
G20 Pushes Controversial Dams in "Green Growth" Strategy
The Group of 20 major economies (G20) holds its 2012 annual summit in Los Cabos, Mexico on June 18-19. The...
Carbon Offsets Misused by Hydropower Industry
From June 2012 World Rivers Review Brazilian Megadams Make Mockery of Clean Development Mechanism The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is...
A Climate-Safe “Green Economy” Protects Rivers, Rejects Destructive Dams
From June 2012 World Rivers Review The twentieth anniversary of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, comes at...
Our Rivers Feed Millions
From June 2012 World Rivers Review River systems support the Earth’s highest biological diversity – and the most intense human...
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...
Putting Rivers on the Agenda in Rio
Commentary: June 2012 World Rivers Review In the preparations for the twentieth anniversary conference of the Earth Summit, the word...
The Amazon: Dirty Dams, Dirty Politics and the Myth of Clean Energy
From June 2012 World Rivers Review A growing trend in Brazil and other countries is to portray large hydroelectric dams...
How Renewable Energy Solutions Reduce Poverty Around the World
Family-size hydropower project in Southern India. Ashden Awards Renewable energy solutions are not only good for the environment. If done...