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 > Batumi Bypass Road project

Closing Report: Final Report (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 7...

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...

Complaint > Himachal Pradesh Clean Energy Development Investment Program

Filing: Complaint

...change in micro climate, etc. At the outset it should be stated that the Biological Environment section of the EIA is rather poor. The EIA does not properly assess the impact of the project on biological environment. Many of the statements made are fairly arbitrary with no data to support them. 19. The Scope of Work does not include assessment as to how the project will impact the livelihoods of people who depend on the area for sustenance. Also, the Section discusses (under Terrestrial...

Complaint > Benban Solar-03

Dispute Resolution: CAO ASSESSMENT REPORT

...Climate Conference in Egypt, the team did not conduct an assessment trip to the project site. The local mediator communicated with the parties and collected information through in-depth telephone conversations. This report summarizes the views heard by the CAO team from the parties and describes the next steps based on the decisions taken by the Complainant and Benban Solar Park. 3.2 Summary of Views Complainants’ perspective The former security guards explained that H&SH as well as BSDA ...

Complaint > Power Sector Development Program

Filing: Complaint

...climate change, more heavy rains are expected. Without mechanical dryer more losses losses are expected. Social enterprise initiative of some ofof usus copra dependent farmers to augment our income isis the processing of coconut husk to coir. But due eto high electricity rate, our production pr is on and off depending upon our ability to save money to pay for the electric bill. III. We seek the following outcome and remedies through the help of the Special Project Facilitator; a) Re...

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 > 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 t...

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 remnant...

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 o...

Complaint > Balakot Hydropower Development Project

Eligibility: Eligibility Report

...climate-resilient hydropower plant commissioned; (ii) enhanced capacity for climate change risk management in hydropower production; (iii) Pakhtunkhwa Energy Development Organization’s (PEDO) revenues from indigenous resources increased; and (iv) income-earning opportunities and skills for local communities increased. 4 6. The project executing agency is the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Energy and Power Department. The implementing agency is the Pakhtunkhwa Energy Development Organization (PEDO...

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 > 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 > 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 uni...

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 > 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 ...

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 B...

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 B...

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 > Sustainable Urban Development Investment Program - Tranche 1

Dispute Resolution: Final Report (English)

...climate impacts such as rain and 1 Exchange rate – 1USD= 472.89 Armenian Dram, July 2015 2 freeze/thaw. The second complaint letter was sent to ARRM on 29 June 2016. In addition to concerns expressed in the first letter, the Complainant felt that a number of cracks and other damage were caused by the road construction. At ADB’s request, PIU investigated and reported that “cracks and other deterioration was generally unchanged and evidence that the road construction activity had impacted...