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 > Enso Albania-02/Mat

Eligibility: Assessment Report - Enso Albania- 02 - October 9_2019 - English

...climate change, episodes of drought may occur outside of the typical dry season, and they express the need to be able to have access to enough water for their crops throughout the year, not only during the dry season, as well as their fear that the project will prevent them from doing so. The Complainants expressed their concern that the presence of the Mati 2 tunnel, which they say will run for seven kilometers under the village of Fullqet, will dry out the wells in that village. They claim tha...

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 > Batumi Bypass Road project

Dispute Resolution: English

...climate change risks, and an assessment of the cumulative impacts. The updated EIA was disclosed on the ADB website on 2 November 2016. 3. The Project is categorized as A for involuntary resettlement. Based on the detailed inventory prepared during the land acquisition and resettlement plan (LARP) preparation in 2016, 963 privately owned land parcels were identified to be affected due to mostly small-scale land acquisition. Total private land to be acquired is 46 hectares. There are 741 aff...

Complaint > Alto Maipo-01/Cajon del Maipo

Appraisal: English

...Climate Change on the Hydrologic Resources of the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Power Project. The ESRS notes that these studies were developed in close consultation with the independent consultants, and representatives from IFC and other multilateral banks. Relevant to the issues raised regarding potential impacts of the project on cultural heritage, the ESRS states that the project will not affect any known archeological, cultural heritage or paleontological sites. According to the ESRS, IF...

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 > Panama Canal Expansion-01/Gatun

Eligibility: English

...Changes in fuels (changes in fuel or technology prices).  Climate change (opening of a passage in the north as a result of thawing conditions).  Opening of alternate routes: Guayaquil railway: Ecuador and Brazil; multimodal system: Peru and Bolivia; Colombia railway to transport coal to China. 9. Destruction of Panama’s archaeological heritage Civil society is concerned by the destruction of Panama’s archaeological heritage during the expansion of the Canal, specifically the remnants of t...

Complaint > Marlin-01/Sipacapa

Eligibility: Assessment

...changes to local economies. The EIR Final Report found that some of the EI projects funded by the WBG had resulted in substantial negative environmental and social impacts for affected people and that substantial changes in WBG support were warranted as a result. The report included almost 100 recommendations for the WBG divided into four main categories: Pro-Poor Governance, Environmental and Social Components, Human rights, and WBG Institutional Priorities. The independent evaluation units of ...

Complaint > Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Power Project

Management Response: Consideration by the Board of Executive Directors of the Recommendation and ToRs

...climate change. Likewise, studies were done on the potential impact of climate change on the project, and the project’s operation will have to be adjusted for those changes, ensuring that the pre-established environmental flow rates are respected at each intake point. 4.7 Additionally, the sediment monitoring program adopted by the project will track hydraulic profiles downriver, so that control measures can be activated to guarantee water flow. 4.8 ...

Complaint > Mahindra Farm Services-01/Confidential

Eligibility: English

...change in business direction might impact franchisees and farmers. When franchisees began raising these concerns, they say their grievances were ignored, and many of those who persisted were threatened or sidelined. According to the complainants, franchisees who attended a 2003 meeting convened by the company were publicly requested by MSSL officials to refrain from speaking negatively about MSSL and its business position. 3. Tractors and other machinery that MSSL leased or sold t...

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

Community Response: Complainant comments

...change anything in respect to the relevance of this recommendation, Complainants demand to EBRD to develop strategically impact assessment is also reflecting obligations of Serbia to align with EU 2030 and EU 2050 targets and roadmaps regarding climate change. It is EBRDs OBLIGATION to regard these strategically documents as guidance in its investments since EBRDs own statutory obligation is to align its strategically goals to EU targets. Since those roadmaps and targets where actually already i...

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 > 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...