Letter

(A similar letter has been sent to the following buyers of carbon credits from Chinese hydros: ENEL, EDF Trading Limited, ICECAP, CAMS AB Sweden, RWE Power AG, MGM Carbon Portfolio, Kommunalkredit, EcoSecurities, Energy Systems International, Eco Energia, Endesa Generacion SA, CDCF, Factor Consulting, IXIS, Int System Energy Corporation, Arreon Carbon, Sindicatum Carbon Capital International, KfW, Ecoinvest, ICF, ESI BV, WBCF, CCAN) Berkeley/BerlinMarco MonroyPresident & CEOMGM Carbon PortfolioLuxembourgVia e-mail: marcogmonroy@mgminter.comDear Marco Monroy:We note that you intend to obta

Update 17 December, 2007: 3 members of the CDM's Executive Board have requested a review of this project on the basis of concerns over its additionality. The full board will consider the request for review at its 37th meeting 30 Jan-1 Feb 2008. SANDRP Comments on Project Design Document for the Jorethang Loop Hydroelectric Project, Sikkim, India Submitted to DNV Based on reading of the PDD and a visit to the site and interviews with the people in the project area (by NESPON colleagues) for the proposed 96 MW Jorethang Loop Hydroelectric Project (JLHEP) in Sikkim (India) should not be validated

SJVN: well equipped to develop the Rampur project? Questions to the World Bank regarding the Indian dam building company Sutley Jal Vidyut Nigam The World Bank is considering financing the Rampur hydropower project in India’s Northern State of Himachal Pradesh. Sutlej Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN, formerly the Nathpa Jhakri Power Corporation) is planning to develop this project. SJVN has in the past only executed one hydropower project in India, the Nathpa Jhakri project, also partly financed by the World Bank. The 1,500 MW Nathpa Jhakri project suffered from severe project design and impleme

Current Status: Validation Terminated (as of Aug 2009) Campos Novos Dam filled Chaver83, Flickr There are several grounds on which the 880 MW Campos Novos Dam should be rejected: lack of adequate stakeholder consultations (due to suppression of stakeholder voices, including unjustified arrests); illegal practices involved in the development of the project; and blatant non-additionality. The fact that the project is already operational without CDM credits should disqualify it from any consideration for credits. It is clear that the project would be completed without the CDM because, in fact,

This letter from NDP Inspection Panel requesters and civil society organisations in Pakistan and internationally asks World Bank Executive Directors to order an independent monitoring of the implementation of the Action Plan, to discuss the forthcoming Action Plan progress report in a Board meeting and to demand a revision of the Action Plan.

Letter from International Rivers to the Lao Water Resources and Environment Agency (WREA) and the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) concerning implementation of the National Policy on the Environmental and Social Sustainability of the Hydropower Sector.

201 signatories express their concern about the revival of plans to build dams on the lower Mekong, and the failure of the international Mekong River Commission (MRC) to uphold the 1995 Mekong Agreement. Read the letter to MRC, and the MRC secretariat and development partners response. To: Chief Executive Officer of the Mekong River Commission Secretariat, Vientiane, Lao PDR, Donor institutions currently supporting the Mekong River Commission Re: MRC and hydropower dams on the lower Mekong mainstream We, the undersigned citizens groups, are writing to express our concerns about the revival of

The ADB is conducting a study designed to develop a regional energy sector strategy for the Mekong Region. IRN’s analysis identifies several limitations in the design of the study including fundamental shortcomings with the proposed participatory processes, and calls on the ADB to support civil societies call for a Comprehensive Energy Options Assessment for the Mekong Region. Read IRN's analysis and recommendations towards the ADB's regional energy sector strategy. Read IRN's letter to the ADB and the ADB's reply. Mr. Rajat Nag, Director General,Southeast Asia Department,Asian Development B

Site of the proposed Don Sahong Dam The following letter from thirty eminent scientists raises concerns over the impacts of the Don Sahong Dam planned for the mainstream Mekong River in the Khone Falls area of Southern Lao with Governmental and international agencies responsible for managing and developing the Mekong River. Read the full letter (English)