Complaint > Improving Rural Livelihoods through Carbon Sequestration Project

Filing: 80-Request for Inspection (English)

...Change and Forestry. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Institute for Global Environmental Strategies. [33] Pielke RA, Marland G, Betts RA, Chase TN, Eastman JL, Niles JO, Niyogi DDS, Run­ ning SW (2002). The influence of land-use change and landscape dynamics on the climate system: relevance to climate-change policy beyond the radiative effect of greenhouse gases. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A., 360: 1705-1719. [34] Peixoto J, Oort A (1992). PHYSICS OF CLIMATE. Melville, NY: ...

Complaint > Private Power Generation Project

Filing: 44-Request for Inspection (English)

...climate warming will disturb the historical balance of lake rainfall and evaporation, and will create serious deficits." vii.A recent (2006) technical report of Directorate of Water Development (DWD), a lead agency, is missing in BEL's SEA. This could probably address the issues of hydrology, climate change, declining water levels in Lake Victoria and River Nile. No study released to date analyses the risks to Bujagali performance from climate change-induced drought and other h...

Complaint > Water and Sanitation Service Improvement Project and Water and Sanitation Service Improvement Project - Additional Financing

Filing: 115-Request for Inspection-26Nov2016

...climate is modified to “modified equatorial climate”. This climate is much cooler than the general tropical continental climate or highland subtropical climate and changes with altitude, becoming semi-arid towards the lower reaches of the catchment. Climate Change versus Climate Variability Climate Change refers to a change in the state of the climate that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer (a permanent shift in the normal patterns of climate) while Climate variability ...

Complaint > Mongolia Mining Infrastructure Investment Support (P118109) and Mining Infrastructure Investment Support - Additional Financing

Filing: 102 - Request for Inspection (English)

...climate change in Mongolia; • Loss of geologic stability and increased risk of damage from landslides due to erosion, earthquakes, and flooding from catastrophic dam failure; • Unpredictable water flows caused by climate change and desiccation of Mongolian landscape will be exacerbated by dam projects. Flow volumes are decreasing in rivers such as the Orkhon, and data suggests that under current conditions the Orkhon River will not survive the planned diversion to t...

Complaint > Water Supply Augmentation Project, Greater Beirut Water Supply Project and its Additional Financing

Filing: Request for Inspection

...climate changes but disregarded the impact of dam constructions on the Global Climate Change. Studies have demonstrated that dams play a negative role in the global carbon cycle and consequently affect Earth's climate, not to mention the high amounts of methane emissions they generate. 2 Recently, following the second Environmental and Social Panel’s request, the borrower initiated a series of me...

Complaint > Energy Loss Reduction Project (Rogun HPP, Tajikistan)

Filing: 70-Request for Inspection Attachment (English)

...Climate Change Effects Maximum temperature has increased SHRINKAGE OF LAKES < 40 40 - 41 41 - 42 42 - 13 43 - 44 ...

Complaint > Eskom Investment Support Project

Filing: 65-Request for Inspection (English)

...Climate Change 26. The proposed loan will compromise the World Bank's commitments on climate change, and make it more difficult for South Africa to meet its own greenhouse gas reduction commitments. 4 27. Despite claims that the Medupi plant will use "cleaner coal technology" and will be "carbon capture and storage-ready", there is no certainty whether these measures will be sufficient to control the enormous amounts of pollutan...

Complaint > Kosovo Power Project (Proposed)

Filing: 78-Request for Inspection (English)

...Climate Change and the World Bank Group: Phase II The Challenge of Low-Carbon Development, at ix. 2 World Bank, 2008. Development and Climate Change: A Strategic Framework for the World Bank Group. 3 World Bank, 2010. Operational Guidance for World Bank Group Staff: Criteria for Screening Coal Projects under the Strategic Framework for Development and Climate Change. 4 Operational Guidance, at 4. 5 Beér, Mielczarski and Taylor, (2010). Kosovo: Kosovo Power Project Report of the SFDCC Ext...

Complaint > Transitional Support for Economic Recovery Credit and Emergency Economic and Social Reunification Support Project

Filing: 37-Request for Inspection Annex 28

...climate pipeline and experience in developing- change’ first surfaced in the country project finance the Bank was negotiations that resulted in the UN well placed to position itself as a fund Framework Convention on Climate manager for industrialised country Change (UNFCCC) of 1992. Under the governments and industries seeking to UNFCCC, projects claiming to reduce ...

Complaint > Haiti Mining Dialogue Technical Assistance

Filing: 100-Request for Inspection

...Climate Change Resilience: The Case of Haiti, Oxfam America (March 2014), available at http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/file_attachments/rr-climate-change-resilience-haiti- 260314-en_2.pdf. 49 Id. 50 Poverty and Inclusion in Haiti: Social gains at a timid pace, supra note 40. 51 See, e.g., Mining Water Use, USGS available at http://water.usgs.gov/edu/wumi html and Mining and Water Pollution, Safe Drinking Water Foundation, available at http://www.safewater.org/PDFS/resourc...

Complaint > Water Supply Augmentation Project, Greater Beirut Water Supply Project and its Additional Fiancing - Second Request

Filing: Request for Inspection

...climate change (2050) on the water resources feeding into the Bisri Dam, and it did not evaluate alternatives to limit water shortage: The variation of water availability (Precipitation, infiltration, surface runoff, and Evapotranspiration) with climate change is not tackled. The assumption that surface runoff increases with climate change is not supported with appropriate references. D. Following concerns about the water quantities in the Greater Beirut Water Supply Pr...

Complaint > Mining Development and Environmental Control Assistance Project

Filing: 20-Request for Inspection (English)

...climate. The protected areas affected include the Cotacachi-Cayapas Ecological Reserve, one of the most biodiverse protected areas in the world. These areas protect the last remnants of Ecuador's Western Forest and dozens of species in danger of extinction. They are recognized throughout the world as being among the forests that contain the greatest biodiversity and are most threatened by deforestation, and are one of ecologist Norman Meyers' "biodiversity hotspots." III. As we indicate in th...

Complaint > Boosting Human Capital and Productivity Development Policy Financing with a Deferred Drawdown Option

Filing: Request for Inspection

...changes introduced by Law 30230 include a 50% reduction in the fines levied for environmental infractions (Article 19).16 Article 22 of Law 30230 has also changed the definition of a "recurring offender" to only include companies who repeat infractions within the same six month period." Every six months their slate is wiped clean, and infractions committed more than six months ago are forgotten. Finally, in Article 21 of Law 30230, the comment period for an Environmental Impact Report ...

Complaint > Andhra Pradesh & Telangana Road Sector Project

Filing: 105-Request for Inspection

...climate change of India has to give clearance to this land acquisition from villages by ruining the ecological balance of India. 8010 of the Indians live in 6 lakhs of villages. 2010 of the city boys are making the laws in the parliament. they always dream about constructing cities, but now they are sentencing villages and villagers to death sentence by forcibly applying 1956 High ways act. However, our India's Environment and Forest ,Climate change ministry is not giving clearance to such...

Complaint > Mining Infrastructure Investment Support and Mining Infrastructure Support - Additional Financing

Filing: Request for Inspection

...Climate change: bearing in mind the NDC of Mongolia we request the Inspection Panel to review whether alternatives to this coal project and its associated facilities have been analysed in compliance with OP 4.01 “…compares them with those of feasible alternatives, (including the "without project" situation) and the international commitments and policies of both the Mongolian Government and the WBG. Sub-standards quality work financed by the WBG, bearing in mind the time and effort that is taking...

Complaint > Development Forestry Sector Management Project

Filing: 69-Request for Inspection (English)

...changes in project concept or design, as appropriate, as the project evolves or circumstances change;…” The management team responsible for the Development Forest Sector Management Project has violated this Policy in two ways. First, the World Bank has producing logging production and revenue projections that are too high and lack sufficient supporting data. It is possible that the government’s own high projections are based upon the World Bank’s numbers, and the relationship between ...

Complaint > Mining Infrastructure Investment Support and Mining Infrastructure Support - Additional Financing

Filing: Request for Inspection

...Climate change: bearing in mind the NDC of Mongolia we request the Inspection Panel to review whether alternatives to this coal project and its associated facilities have been analysed in compliance with OP 4.01 “…compares them with those of feasible alternatives, (including the "without project" situation) and the international commitments and policies of both the Mongolian Government and the WBG. Sub-standards quality work financed by the WBG, bearing in mind the time and effort that is taking...

Complaint > Second National Water Development Project - AdditionalFinancing

Filing: 86-Request for Inspection (English)

...climate changes, desertification and increased soil salinity, deforestation and loss of biodiversity;23 (f) 22 See footnote 5 above, Agenda 21, chaps. 5 ,7 and 18; and the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Plan of Implementation (2002), paras. 6 (a), (l) and (m), 7, 36 and 38. 23 See the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention to Combat Desertification, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and subsequent protoc...

Complaint > Smallholder Agriculture Development Project

Filing: 62-Request for Inspection (English)

...change mitigation: Given the calamity of global warming and climate change Impact on environment, Inff8structure, livelihood, medical prosperity, oil palm expansion will continue to aeate many ecological foot prints. Biofuel or agrofuells not the answer to mitigating the reduction In rising global carbon gases and other greenhouse gases emissions Into the atmosphere. Continuous forest ciearances for 011 palm expansion would oontlnue to compound and exacerbate the emission of carbon g...

Complaint > Kenya Energy Sector Recovery Project

Filing: 79-Request for Inspection (English)

...climate changes to a more drought-prone regime? Over the past few months, a private company has systematically destroyed the Chalbi wetland in preparation for their proposed development. Kara and Green Belt Movement objections have been disregarded by the developer and a site house haS been constructed and a bore-hole drilled despite, it is believed, that there is no such provision for a borehole within the Nema approved EIA. Residents' opinions have not been sought and Nema secretly approved th...