Complaint > Panama Canal Expansion Program

Management Response: Submission of the final document to the Board of Executive Directors for consideration

...climate change on water availability. Although ACP projects a 7 percent cushion to allow for an increase in demand, any significant change in these variables could lead to a situation where there is not enough water to allow normal canal traffic and other uses. In anticipation, indigenous communities affiliated to the Unión Indígena y Campesina have already expressed concern and active opposition to the planned damming of rivers in their territories as the Panama Canal Watershed could expand to ...

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 > Agrokasa-01/Ica

Closing Report: Agrokasa Ombudsman Conclusion Report, April 2011

...change of information among the compliance appraisal of IFC’s due diligence water users associations about the in relation to the project. aquifer is important. 9 A process of joint monitoring of the key The CAO Ombudsman team then began components of the water situation working with the parties to design and ...

Complaint > EPS Emergency Power Sector Reconstruction Loan, EPS Power II and EPS Kolubara Environmental Improvement

Eligibility: Eligibility Assessment Report

...changed recently and is not expected to change in the near future’. 23 17 Ove Arup & Partners, Kolubara Environmental Upgrade Project: Environmental and Social Gap Analysis Report, (April 2011). 18 Management Response, at 5. 19 Management Response, at 5. 20 Management Response, at 6. 21 Management Response, at 5-6. 22 Management Response, at 6. 23 Management Response, at 7. ...

Complaint > Land Reform and Poverty Alleviation Project, 1st Request

Eligibility: 14-Eligibility Report (English)

...Changes in Costs With Changes in Inflation and Farm Income Simulation of a R$3,500 Loan Conditions: (i) 10-year repayment period, with a three-year grace period; (ii) annual installments of R$500, adjusted for the TJLP (government long-term interest rate) Year Repayment Adjustment Change in Projected Income/debt amount* for projecte...

Complaint > Institutional Reform Development Policy Financing

Management Response: 57-Responses to Questions from the Requesters and the Inspection Panel

...Climate Change, Anti-Corruption and Strengthening of the Social Welfare Fund) and offering help to do so. In this regard, two missions visited Yemen (November 3-5, 2009, and December 12-15, 2009) to reiterate these messages and to concretely support the Bank's advice for Government-led consultations on operations that the Bank supports. In May 2010, the Region took stock of the impact of this advice in an assessment note that was shared with Government in June 2010. Consultations wit...

Complaint > Quilleco Hydropower Project

Registration: 67-Notice of Registration (English)

...change for Certified Emission Reductions (“CERs”) with the aim of mitigating global climate change through carbon emission reductions, under the expectation that the Project will result in reduction in greenhouse gas emissions that are additional to any that would occur in the absence of the Project. The ERPA for the Quilleco Hydropower Project, which has already commenced operations, was entered into between Hidroelectrica Guardia Vieja S.A. (“HGV”), a subsidiary of Colbun SA, and the ...

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

Compliance Report: 37-Investigation Report (English)

...climate change.71 Tropical deforestation, in particular, has a strong effect on climate change because tropical trees store about 50 percent more carbon per hectare than trees elsewhere. 72 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports that the largest of the anthropogenic land cover changes involves deforestation, and that during the past two decades, “the CO2 flux caused by land use changes has been dominated by tropica...

Complaint > Land Reform and Poverty Alleviation Project, 1st Request

Management Response: 14-Management Response (English)

...changes to help ensure better compliance with Bank policies and procedures. The objective is to stop the operation and any contemplated expansion, because the Requestors do not believe that the Government should be pursuing a voluntary, market-based approach to achieve redistribution of land assets in Brazil. “Expropriation means punishing (in accordance with current legislation) the owners of large tracts of land who keep them in unproductive state and/or fail to fulfill the soci...

Complaint > Dariali HPP

Eligibility: Eligibility Assessment Report

...climate change considerations. According to the Complainants, therefore, the necessary data collection by the EBRD is not in line with the PR 1.5. 6 Response from Dariali Energy to PCM Officer, issued 13 January 2015. 7 Complaint Number 2014/05, p 5. 3 PUBLIC PUBLIC 11. The Co...

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 > Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Power Project

Eligibility: Eligibility Memorandum Public Disclosure

...climate change. Likewise, studies had been done on the potential impact of climate change on the project, and the project’s operation - 10 - will have to be adjusted for those changes, ensuring that the pre-established environmental flow rates are respected at each intake point. 3.9 Additionally, the sediment monitoring program adopted by the project will track hydraulic p...

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 > Yanacocha-02/Cajamarca

Agreement: July-August 2002

...changes in surface water quality that have or could make the water unsafe for: • Human consumption? • Livestock? • Agricultural and irrigation users? • Aquatic life? 5 2. Have current mine operations resulted in changes in surface water flow that have or could adversely affect: • The quantity of water available for irrigation and agricultural use? ...

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 > Kozloduy International Decommissioning Support Fund

Eligibility: Eligibility Assessment Report

...change of the PCM contact person from the side of Complainants on the PCM Register under the Complaint Processing steps and informed the Parties of the Complaint about this change. 5. Bulgaria’s Nuclear Power Plant at Kozloduy was built according to Soviet design with six VVER type-reactors. The Western European Nuclear Regulatory Association, and other experts, concluded that units 1-4 (VVER 440-230) could not reach acceptable safety levels. The deficiencies concerned t...

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 ...