Complaint > Private Power Generation Project

Management Action Plan: 44-Third Management Progress Report

...Climate  Management confirmed that GoU disclosed the Lake Completed Change and Hydrology Victoria hydrological (water releases) starting in 2008, and Risks; Potential Impacts on since then, the information has been made available to the Lake Victoria; Alternative East African Community (EAC) on a regular basis Project Configurations (OP4.01) 6 IV. DETAILED PROGRESS DESCRIPTION OF MAP ACT...

Complaint > Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project

Eligibility: Inspection Panel Report and Recommendation (English)

...change. The Requesters claim that the natural environment and people’s traditional adaptations in these narrow V-shaped river valleys are threatened by changes in the microclimate due to impacts from road construction, dust, vehicle traffic, reservoirs and tunneling, as well as what people observe as longer-term changes in temperatures and rainfall patterns. Furthermore, the Project is in a high-risk seismic zone. It is claimed that the Project will c...

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

Management Action Plan: 37-Second Management Progress Report (English)

...Climate and REDD (“Groupe de Travail Climat REDD”), supporting their outreach to and capacity building efforts with local communities. (ix) Work is in progress and well embedded in the Country Program. The following pages provide details. 2 The REDD+ program goes beyond deforestation and forest degradation, and includes the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks. ...

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 > Private Sector Development and Competitiveness Project, First Request

Other: 54-Socio-Economic Evaluation (English)

...changes, there are some groups with significant loss in assets. Change in Assets for Individual Households (2009 vs. Reported in 2009 about 2003 Holdings) Asset Decrease Increase Net Change Net Change from Exit Survey 2003 to ...

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

Eligibility: 102-Third and Final Report and Recommendation(English)-13 July 2017

...climate change and water levels. Management explains that participants can send their comments for an additional 14-day period ending July 17, 2017, and MINIS will prepare and disclose response matrices by early September. 14. Adjustments after the consultations. Management emphasizes that the PMU is currently implementing several suggestions in response to the consultations: • REA and ESIA: The GoM has agreed to prepare a stand-alone REA prior to the development of proje...

Complaint > Forest Concession Management and Control Pilot Project

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

...climate change, with a focus on the “fog” forest stands) and in Mozambique, which would inform the Bank’s re-engagement in the natural resources and adaptation to climate change. OPCQC carried out a Bank-wide review on safeguards ...

Complaint > Quilleco Hydropower Project

Eligibility: 67-Final Report and Recommendation (English)

...changes in springs and wells were not related to the Quilleco Project, “any livelihood impacts from changes in water availability from springs and wells are not the result of construction and operation of Quilleco.” Management’s Progress Report further stated that “with regard to the change in flow levels in the Laja River over the distance of the Quilleco diversion, the livelihood study indicates that no discernable impact on pasture areas or agricultural activities can be a...

Complaint > Haiti Mining Dialogue Technical Assistance

Registration: 100-Notice of Non-Registration(English)

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

Management Response: Management Response

...Climate change: bearing in mind the Management shares the Requesters’ concerns regarding NDC of Mongolia we request the greenhouse gas emissions. Emission issues are assessed as part Inspection Panel to review whether of the CIA. The Bank will advise the Borrower to mitigate any alternatives to this coal project and its climate change impacts as identified in the CIA. The Bank is associated facilities have been analysed also working with the Borro...

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

Management Response: Management Response

...Climate change: bearing in mind the Management shares the Requesters’ concerns regarding NDC of Mongolia we request the greenhouse gas emissions. Emission issues are assessed as part Inspection Panel to review whether of the CIA. The Bank will advise the Borrower to mitigate any alternatives to this coal project and its climate change impacts as identified in the CIA. The Bank is associated facilities have been analysed also working with the Borro...

Complaint > Parana Biodiversity Project

Eligibility: 41-Eligibility Report (English)

...changes” made to Project implementation after it was approved have resulted in a change of Project activities, which will prevent the achievement of the original Project objectives and will worsen the current situation, thereby intensifying the loss of biodiversity. The Requesters believe that the Project’s original objectives are far from being achieved because the Project focus has shifted: the activities planned under the Project to protect agai...

Complaint > Quilleco Hydropower Project

Management Response: 67-Management Response (English)

...Climate Change WCD World Commission on Dams iii Chile iv Quilleco and Laja Projects EXECUTIVE SUMMARY i. On June 18, 2010, the Inspection Panel registered a Request for Inspection concerning the Quilleco Hydropower Project and the Laja Hydroelectric Project in Chile. The Request was submitted by residents of Tucapel, Santa Barbara, Ralco Lepoy, and ...

Complaint > Private Power Generation Project

Management Action Plan: 44-Fourth Management Progress Report

...Climate Change and (GoU) disclosed the Lake Victoria hydrological (water Hydrology Risks; Potential releases) data starting in 2008, and since then, the Impacts on Lake Victoria; information has been made available to the East African Alternative Project Community (EAC) on a regular basis Configurations (OP4.01) 3 See Table 3, Page 40 of the Management Report and Recommendations, November 2008. 4 Provision of water suppl...

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 > National Drainage Program Project

Eligibility: 34-Management Report and Recommendation (English)

...changes that are a product of major evolution in the hydrologic and sediment regime of the Indus River as a consequence of more than a century of accelerated irrigation and water use development. These changes have resulted in severe ecological changes to the many la- goons and lakes in the ...