Complaint > Improving Rural Livelihoods through Carbon Sequestration Project

Management Response: 80-Management Response (English)

...Climate Change (UNFCCC) Kyoto Protocol. The Project must comply with CDM rules, which have been agreed by over 185 countries that are parties to the Kyoto Protocol, including India. The Bank is obliged to follow the CDM framework and its application, and its third party audit and certification process. 4. The Project is implemented by two Project Entities, JK Paper Mills Limited (JKPL) and VEDA Climate Change Solutions (VCCSL). The Project Entities are required to comply with the CDM framew...

Complaint > Dariali HPP

Compliance Report: Compliance Review Report

...climate change and adaptation issues.” See generally Bjørn Petter Kaltenborn, Christian Nellemann & Ingunn Ims Vistnes, High mountain glaciers and climate change – Challenges to human livelihoods and adaptation UNEP (2010). The ESIA here does not appear to have considered the impact of climate change on the likelihood of a glacier break at the Devdoraki Glacier based on increased glacial melting attributable to climate change. 18 See, e.g., American Society of Civil Engineers, Geotechnical Basel...

Complaint > Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Power Project

Filing: Request Receipt

...climate change and desertification 2) Ten consecutive years of drought in the basin affected by the project 3) Real flow rates of the rivers that will be affected 4) Effects on la sedimentology of the river 5) Effects of the project on glaciers and groundwater 1 See: http://www.iadb.org/en/projects/project-description-title,1303.html?id=CH%2DL1067 2 Source: Annex 08. River Basin Management and Climate Change. The case of the Maipo. 3 La ECR is the environmental permit o...

Complaint > Eskom Investment Support Project

Eligibility: 65-Eligibility Report and Chairperson Statement (English)

...climate change related claims mentioned in the Request that do not raise issues of compliance under Bank policy, such as for example whether the Project meets the requirements of the Bank strategy document on “Development and Climate Change: A Strategic Framework for the World Bank Group”. With respect to impacts on the economy, the Panel will similarly be guided by OP 10.04 - Economic Evaluation of Investment Operations, should it need to examine whether the Bank adequately assessed the impacts...

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 > Eco Oro-01/Bucaramanga

Filing: Complaint to the CAO, June 13, 2012

...climate change impacts. This GEF-funded project responded to national priorities after examining of the consequences of climate change and identifying high montane ecosystems in the Northern Andes as the country‟s most vulnerable ecosystems to the expected impacts of climate change. Another project related to the Colombian paramos and supported by the World Bank through GEF is “Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity in the Andes”117 that sought to increase the conservation, understandi...

Complaint > Oyu Tolgoi-02/Khanbogd

Agreement: MDT/IEP Final Report - January 2017 - English

...climate change and country wide developments such as increasing livestock numbers. While increase of annual mean temperature (mostly through warner winter averages) is a key climate change feature throughout Mongolia, there is no drying trend in the Gobi; rather, precipitation has slightly increased. Increased frequency and severity of extreme weather events, such as drought and dzud, is a projected climate change impact that will further increase the vulnerability of rural communities. The pres...

Complaint > Oyu Tolgoi-01/Khanbogd

Agreement: MDT/IEP Final Report - January 2017 - English

...climate change and country wide developments such as increasing livestock numbers. While increase of annual mean temperature (mostly through warner winter averages) is a key climate change feature throughout Mongolia, there is no drying trend in the Gobi; rather, precipitation has slightly increased. Increased frequency and severity of extreme weather events, such as drought and dzud, is a projected climate change impact that will further increase the vulnerability of rural communities. The pres...

Complaint > Nenskra Hydropower Project

Eligibility: Report of ADB's Board Compliance Review Committee and CRP's Report on Eligibility in English [PDF] and in Georgian [PDF]

...climate change and the importance of considering climate change in the design of the Project’s hydraulic structures. The report has dealt with climate change scenarios for initial predictions of hydraulic flows and changes in flood flows due to climate change. It has also dealt with greenhouse gas emissions from the reservoir. The ESMP commits the project sponsor, JSCNH, to evaluate long-term implications of climate change on natural hazards. Annual monitoring on hydrology and climate change is ...

Complaint > Nenskra Hydropower Project

Eligibility: CRP Eligibility Report in English [PDF] and in Georgian [PDF]

...climate change and the importance of considering climate change in the design of the Project’s hydraulic structures. The report has dealt with climate change scenarios for initial predictions of hydraulic flows and changes in flood flows due to climate change. It has also dealt with greenhouse gas emissions from the reservoir. The ESMP commits the project sponsor, JSCNH, to evaluate long-term implications of climate change on natural hazards. Annual monitoring on hydrology and climate change is ...

Complaint > Private Power Generation Project

Management Response: 44-Management Response (English)

...Climate Change. BEL’s SEA reports do not ad- The SEA addressed social and environmental issues dress climate change and its possible impact on related to the project; the broader climate change (and power production at Bujagali. Current and future cli- hydrology) aspects were addressed in different studies mate models indicate hotter, drier conditions, lower which have also been publicly disclosed. lake levels and lower downst...

Complaint > Boskov Most Hydro Power

Eligibility: Eligibility Assessment Report

...changes can be considered as more than adequate. Cumulative impacts on climate. Section 7.3 of the ESIA describes potential effects on global and local climates due to construction (7.3.1) and operation 7.3.2). The ESIA concludes that the relatively small (in global terms) changes in greenhouse gas emissions would have no significant effect on global climate change but would contribute to reducing FYR Macedonian emissions overall in line with the national strategy. Further, the ESIA concludes th...

Complaint > Improving Rural Livelihoods through Carbon Sequestration Project

Registration: 80-Notice of Registration (English)

...climate change. This Project is officially registered under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Clean Development Mechanism (CDM, Registration No.4531). Specifically, according to the Project Design Document (PDD) 1 the objectives of the Project are: • “To pilot reforestation activities for generating high-quality greenhouse gas removals by sinks 2 that can be measured, monitored and verified; • To develop plantation ...

Complaint > EPS Restructuring

Filing: Complaint

...climate change in its countries of operations. The EBRD will engage, whenever appropriate, in innovative investments and technical assistance to support no/low-carbon investments and climate-change mitigation and adaptation opportunities, as well as identify opportunities to reduce emissions in EBRD-supported projects. The EBRD will also support its clients in developing adaptation measures that promote climate-resilient investments.” Since the EPS Restructuring project is a corporate level in...

Complaint > Forest Concession Management and Control Pilot Project

Management Action Plan: 36-Third Management Progress Report (English)

...climate change (see www.worldbank.orglbiodiversitv or www.worldbank.org/climatechange), which emphasizes the important roles that natural ecosystems play in climate change mitigation and ...

Complaint > Oyu Tolgoi-02/Khanbogd

Agreement: IEP Executive Summary - Eng Jan_30_2015

...Changes in forage plant species composition along the Undai River indicate dryness and pasture degradation. Meteorological records of the last decade document a slight increase in annual precipitation and included several years of exceptionally high annual rainfall. Vegetation responses in Gobi rangelands to climate are complex; it is not conclusive to link a deteriorating trend in vegetation in the project-impacted areas to climate change primarily. 2 Center for Policy Research, 2012 b: Asses...

Complaint > Eskom Investment Support Project

Management Response: 65-Management Response (English)

...Climate Change (UNFCCC) in August 1997, and accession to the Kyoto Protocol in July 2002; (b) adoption of a National Climate Change Response Strategy (2004), which outlined a broad range of principles and policy measures for mitigation and adaptation to climate change; (c) association with the Copenhagen Accord of 2009, which has led to South Africa's political commitment to implementing economy-wide emission targets for 2020; (d) issuance of the Regulations for Energy Efficiency; (e) recent iss...

Complaint > Santa Fe Road Infrastructure Project and Provincial Road Infrastructure Project, 3rd Request

Compliance Report: 51-Investigation Report (English)

...climate change effect. 27. It is important to note that even though the factor used to account for climate change is in the vicinity of 10 %, due to the nonlinearity of the hydrologic system response the final effect on peak flows will be greater than this percentage. However, in spite of these differences it is unclear why the consideration of climate change was restricted to Section II. This again demonstrates a lack of coherence among the basic criteria used in the hyd...

Complaint > Oyu Tolgoi-02/Khanbogd

Agreement: IEP Recommendations to Stakeholders_Eng

...Climate Changes in Mongolia; thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements For the Degree of Master of Science Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 3 Fernandez-Gimenez, ME (2000): ME. The role of Mongolian nomadic pastoralists: Ecological knowledge in rangeland management. Ecol. Appl. 2000;10:1310–1326 4 Marin, A. (2009): Riders under storms: Contributions of nomadic herders’ observations to analysing climate change in Mongolia; Global Environmental Change-human and ...