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 found in ...

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 > 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 [PDF]

...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 wat...

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 > Bridge International Academies-01/Kenya

Filing: Letter of complaint - Bridge International Academies-01/Kenya - April 2018

...climate of fear around its operations, which affects parents, teachers, staff and citizens. BIA has in several instances used the courts to sue over defamation. However, these attempts to obtain gag orders have all failed as BIA has lost these cases so far. Because of these actions, the complainants believe that BIA is using the Kenyan courts to bully and silence critics and competitors. This situation affects not only the involved individuals and organizations, but also creates a climate of fea...

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 point of...

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...

Complaint > Yacyreta Hydroelectric Project

Filing: Additional Request for Inspection (English)

...changes in the project during implementation.” Rather than change the project to reduce the environmental and social impacts in light of repeated violations of loan agreements and project documents, the Banks changed the project to allow the borrower to delay implementation of these neglected components. 65. Finally, the Banks did not adequately exercise their remedies when the borrower failed to comply with project conditions. (OD 13.05, para 41). In particular, the Banks should have suspe...

Complaint > Lonmin-02/Marikana

Filing: Complaint regarding Lonmin project

...climate change and has also committed to reduce energy consumption by 10% in 2007 compared with 2003 baseline levels. Certain areas of the project do have the potential to impact ambient conditions (eg: dust from tailings dams and smelter emissions). Appropriate strategies to minimize these and other impacts have been taken, for example measures to minimize dust from tailings dams (see below) whilst SOX emissions fro...

Complaint > Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project, and Petroleum Environment Capacity Enhancement Project

Filing: 27-Request for Inspection (English)

...climate change. Furthermore, the potential impacts of possible oil accidents have not been analysed. Preparation of the emergency plan in the event of an oil leak was conducted without the slightest public consultation. • The environmental impact study has not undertaken an analysis of the cumulative and overall impacts of the project. For example, it has not taken sufficient account of the operations for exploiting oil in the Ebomé region (Kribi), and no study of the alterna...

Complaint > Northern Corridor Highway Improvement Program - Santa Barbara - Rurrenabaque and San Buenaventura

Filing: Request received by Executive Secretariat

...climate changes and increased deforestation. Year after year, this region has seen extreme phenomena occurring with a higher frequency -- torrential rains and increased river flows that are creating situations as the floods we are experimenting these days, posing serious life-threatening risks to the people who live in Rurrenabaque and any neighboring municipalities. This bridge project also poses risks to the mountain areas that are regarded as a ...