Letter

The letter below, initiated by Friends of the Earth, US, and endorsed by numerous other organizations, was sent to relevant Congressional leaders. We are writing to urge you to ensure that no funds are appropriated for the World Bank’s Clean Technology Fund (CTF) for FY09. The World Bank launched the CTF in July 2008, ostensibly to fund transformational, low carbon development in developing countries, targeting major greenhouse gas emitting nations. Global climate destabilization disproportionately harms the poor worldwide. Despite this, the World Bank has increased funding for fossil f

The following request for an investigation into problems at Gibe 3 Dam was filed by Friends of Lake Turkana; on March 26, the African Development Bank's Compliance Review and Mediation Unit registered the request. A mediation process has been initiated, and a meeting between Bank staff and Friends of Lake Turkana is scheduled for June 10 in Nairobi. Mr. Per Eldar SovikCompliance Review and Mediation Unit (CRMU)African Development Bank Dear Mr. Sovik:I am writing in my capacity as chairperson of Friends of Lake Turkana (FoLT), a community association formed in 2008 in response to threats to t

Dr. Refaat Abdel-MalekPresidentInternational Hydropower AssociationNine Sutton Court RoadLondon Borough of Sutton, SM1 4SZUnited Kingdom Dear Dr. Abdel-Malek, We are writing to express concerns regarding the International Hydropower Association'sHydropower Sustainability Assessment Forum (HSAF) as the process to revise the SustainabilityAssessment Protocol reaches its halfway point. In particular, we are concerned about the lack ofoutreach to and opportunities for input from dam-affected people, social movements and civilsociety organizations in the five HSAF meetings that have been held to da

International Rivers Comments on the Baglihar Proposed CDM ProjectBaglihar Dam Shiva Nagri 1) The name of the project is never given in the PDD so that the identification of the project is unclear. The PDD should be reposted for public comment after information clearly identifying the project is included.In the PDD only the location of the project is given, the name is not given. Also, the project has two stages, and both are 450 MW. It is not clear from the PDD which stage is being proposed as the CDM project. Developers should be required to give information that is commonly expected for th

Dear Joyce Malanaric, Many thanks for acknowledging the receipt of the message and also making the submission available to the CDM executive board. I will look forward to getting the responses thereof. The issue of proper consultations with the local people for the CDM projects is crucial, particularly for hydropower projects whose adverse impacts are all felt by the local communities and they get practically no benefits from them. Hydropower projects are applying only the traditional technolgoies and hence to be called a CDM project and to be part of the sustainable development, it is crucial

Comments on the proposal to give CDM credits to "Substitution of Hydro-electric power in the National Grid" Or BAGLIHAR Hydropower project in Jammu & Kashmir, IndiaHaving read the Project Design Document (PDD) and having been familiar with this project over the last few years, my comments on the proposal to CDM credits to this project are as follows. Broadly, this project is not using any new or imported technology that is not already being used in the project area. This project is also not additional, as the project implementation has started many years before the CDM projects came into e

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Señor Doctor Francisco Santos Calderón Vicepresidente de la República de Colombia Fax: 011-57-1-444-2158 comunicacionesvp@presidencia.gov.co Honorable Doctor Santos Calderón: Saludos cordiales. Le escribo para solicitar muy respetuosamente una cita con su señoría y el señor Adolfo Villagra, presidente del Consejo Indígena Naso, el señor Licenciado Keanin Loomis, representante legal del Consejo Naso del bufete estadounidense Akin & Gump, y mi persona Monti Aguirre de Internacional Rivers, organización de defensa del ambiente y derechos humanos con sede