Complaint > Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project

Compliance Report: Investigation Report (English)

...climate change. The Panel acknowledges that the small size of the reservoir, the slow water retention period, and the lack of significant biomass to be submerged suggest that any potential release of methane will be negligible and thus will not result in any significant addition of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. The inverse is more important and has been emphasized by Management, i.e., the positive contributions of hydropower to fight climate change as it provides electricity in a more clim...

Complaint > Institutional Reform Development Policy Financing

Management Response: 57-Management Response Annexes 2 to 8

...Climate Assessment: Priorities and Recommendationsfor Accelerating Private-Led Growth (May 12,2006) World Bank. Development Policy Review (March 2006) World Bank Group, Doing Business 2007 (Washington: World Bank Group, 2006) World Bank. Yemen Urban Land Policy and Administration Policy Note (2006) United States Department of Commerce U S . Department o f State, Investment Climate Statement - - Yemen (Washington, DC: 2006) ...

Complaint > Natakhtari-Jinvali Road Project

Filing: Complaint

...climate aggregating a precious flora and fauna. -Compromise the quality of Tbilisi Water Reservoirs that are located on these territories, with road being located closer to them (the highway would be passing about 200 metres away from the reservoirs) and an increased level of transit traffic. - Cause the degradation of a unique and beautiful landscape as well as the destruction of a healthy and quiet environment valued by nature lovers, favoured for leisure by urban residents and elected fo...

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 > Private Power Generation Project

Management Action Plan: 44-Sixth Management Progress Report-21 Feb 2017

...Climate Change and disclose the Lake Victoria hydrological (water releases) Hydrology Risks; information and make it available to the East African Potential Impacts on Lake Community (EAC). Victoria; Alternative -4- Issues Actions (Initial Commitment) Status Project Configurations (OP4.01) IV. PROGRESS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF OUTST...

Complaint > Institutional Reform Development Policy Financing

Eligibility: 57-Final Eligibility Report (English)

...changes between CSOs and Government. 33. As for the Bank’s program in Yemen and the way forward, Management stated that the Country Office arranged frequent meetings with a cross-section of CSOs. On average, two to three events were held each month, on topics as diverse as the new Social Welfare Fund operation, the 6 Integrated Urban Development project, the Qat Demand Reduction Agenda, and Climate Change. Additiona...

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

Management Response: 102 - Management Response (English)

...climate change bility, are part of the ToR. and desiccation of Mongo- Section B 4.3. – Climate Change Assessment – of the Shuren Fea- lian landscape will be ex- sibility Study states: “The Consultant shall, based on global and acerbated by dam projects. regional studies, and climate change projections, estimate the Flow volumes are dec...

Complaint > Water Supply Augmentation Project, Greater Beirut Water Supply Project and its Additional Fiancing - Second Request

Registration: Notice of Non-Registration

...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 > Land Reform and Poverty Alleviation Project, 2nd Request

Eligibility: 18-Eligibility Report (English)

...change the conclusions reached in the First Management Response. Management continues to believe that the claims are not substantiated. 31 2.2 The claims registered by the Panel include: 1. The terms of the loans for land purchases have not been improved; 2. There is a lack of adequate lines of credit to support project beneficiaries; 3. The project pays inflated pric...

Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

Management Action Plan: 89-Management Progress Report

...change, cancellation of the loan security are resolved in accordance with applicable law. 35 10. Miscellaneous 10.1. Changing the terms of the Agreement or its cancellation shall be effected by a supplementary agreement. Any changes or additions made to this Agreement shall be in writing and shall come into force after the actual signing by the Parties and attaching seal. All changes, additions and annexes are considered ...

Complaint > Togo LCT-01/Lome

Management Response: English

...climate resilience of infrastructure along coastal areas in Togo. These efforts are important to seeking broad, long-term solutions. IFC will seek to use the World Bank Group's convening role to try to bring the relevant parties together on this important issue for Togo. IFC will stay engaged with the client to ensure that its obligations under the Performance Standards are met and appreciates the engagement with CAO on this investment. We look forward to continued dialogue in this regard. ...

Complaint > Southeast Europe Equity Fund II

Compliance Report: Compliance Review Report

...changes referred to above. 61. An exchange of letters concerning the allegedly forced resignation of the Assistant Finance Officer of AHK were submitted as evidence of the extensive impact of the change in management style within the company at that time. 62. An important element of the Complaint is the allegation that there had been several cases in which former AHK employees had been subject to harassment and victimisation. The Complainant offered ...

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 > Energy Resources Phase II & Oyu Tolgoi

Compliance Report: Compliance Review Report (OT)

...Climate Change, Can Traditional Livelihoods and Mining Co-exist in a Changing Climate: Strengthening Public-Private Partnerships in Mongolia to Reduce Risk and Address Loss and Damage (Final Report, 2014), at 8, available at: http://www.apn-gcr.org/resources/items/show/1938 12 Strategy prepared as part of the Project’s overall environmental and social appraisa...

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 > 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. Consultatio...

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, a...

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...