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 > Dariali HPP

Filing: Complaint (English)

...climate change, the glaciers which feed Tergi and its tributaries, are reduced by several meters every year. The issue of changing the water and solid flow caused by accelerated melting of glaciers was not taken into consideration while developing the HPP project.” In September 2013 Prof. Otar Duduari, also warned that the construction site has been chosen inadequately4. More recently, Duduari stated that a construction of a hydropower plant anywhere in the Dariali gorge would increase the risk ...

Complaint > Education Sector Reform Project

Filing: Complaint

...change own shape and appearance. The condition of schools do not meet the requirements and standards after the reconstruction. The plastering of school’s building is unqualified. It was made in winter in cold climate. For our conditions it is impossible to do plastering in winter that falling done in some months. The sockets are not good as well. Window glasses are not placed completely. The ceilings, floors and windows are full of holes. The blackboards are self-made and not set in the wal...

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 > Rural Land Titling & Registration Project in Peru - Third Phase

Filing: Request Receipt

...changes to public policies is mentioned, but there is no guarantee whatsoever that these changes will take place. Consequently, the design of the ESMP, including the proposal for several envisaged activities is inadequate to ensure that harm to native communities and their lands is prevented. -4- The ESA did not consider an analysis of the indirect and cumulative effects on a wider area of influence (wider than the land to be titled in isolat...

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 > Lafarge Surma Cement -01

Filing: Lafarge Complaint January 2014

...climate change. Given the way lands are being grabbed, environmental destroyed and affected people left to fend for themselves a very strong action is being awaited against Lafarge. We will surely seek that IFC cancels all its loans, present and future, to Lafarge and its subsidiaries worldwide. Among others, we state below some of the key actions IFC must take to address our concerns: a. If land acquired (by Lafarge through lease and sale) from Indigenous Khasi people is f...

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 Re...

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 be...

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 t...

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 t...

Complaint > Himachal Pradesh Clean Energy Development Investment Program

Filing: Complaint

...change in micro climate, etc. At the outset it should be stated that the Biological Environment section of the EIA is rather poor. The EIA does not properly assess the impact of the project on biological environment. Many of the statements made are fairly arbitrary with no data to support them. 19. The Scope of Work does not include assessment as to how the project will impact the livelihoods of people who depend on the area for sustenance. Also, the Section discusses (under Terrestrial...

Complaint > Power Sector Development Program

Filing: Complaint

...climate change, more heavy rains are expected. Without mechanical dryer more losses losses are expected. Social enterprise initiative of some ofof usus copra dependent farmers to augment our income isis the processing of coconut husk to coir. But due eto high electricity rate, our production pr is on and off depending upon our ability to save money to pay for the electric bill. III. We seek the following outcome and remedies through the help of the Special Project Facilitator; a) Re...

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 t...

Complaint > Nenskra HPP

Filing: Complaint

...changed to rock-filled with asphalt face, with total reservoir area 267 ha. Technical parameters for the Nakra River derivation dam were changed from 13 to 8.7 meters in length, while the diameter of the derivation tunnel was reduced from 4.5 to 3.5 meters. Following public consultations with many unanswered questions and concerns voiced by local impacted people, and due to continued requests for additional information and greater guarantees for the safety and livelihoods of Svans, an up-dated E...

Complaint > Ituango Hydropower Plant

Filing: Request Receipt

...changes in the structure and composition of the plant cover, decreasing the size of the patches and altering the plant species populations.”77 Similarly, the deterioration of this critical plant cover contributes to climate change. The tropical dry forest should be considered a critical habitat by IDB standards. For this reason, the destruction of this ecosystem constitutes a violation of the policy on natural habitats and cultural sites, as well as the policy on environmental sustainability. 2....

Complaint > Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project

Filing: Request for compliance review

...change in the chemical property of the water, as detailed later. This is indicated, as stated, by the persistent frothiness. • The highly saline brine, discharged from the desalination plant of the power project, might also be increasing the salinity / changing pH of the water, driving fish away. As the Tata EIA says, ‐“Rejects from the desalination plant will be discharged into the sea through the discharge channel of the cooling...

Complaint > Interagua-01/Guayaquil

Filing: English Part 2

...change Interagua’s plans radically until the end of the quinquennium. It is assumed that quinquennial evaluation offers all the necessary opportunities to evaluate those aspects and change plans according to results. This strategy worries us, owing to the implication that precious time will be lost in meeting quality goals, without systematic changes in the provision of services, particularly those of supply of potable water, which are only requested and made every five years. From this p...

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 > 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 ...