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 protec...

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 > 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 > Ituango Hydropower Plant

Filing: Request Receipt

...changes in the structure and composition of the plant cover, decreasing the size of the patches and altering the plant species populations.”77 Similarly, the deterioration of this critical plant cover contributes to climate change. The tropical dry forest should be considered a critical habitat by IDB standards. For this reason, the destruction of this ecosystem constitutes a violation of the policy on natural habitats and cultural sites, as well as the policy on environmental sustainability. 2....

Complaint > Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project, Management of the Petroleum Economy Project, and Petroleum Sector Management Capacity Building Project

Project Document: Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project Overview

...climate in Chad and global issues such as climate change and human rights. This concern also reached the World Bank's Board, where several Executive Directors and their staff took a personal interest in progress with the Project. The two regional Vice-Presidents for the Africa Region saw the Project as an innovative way for the institution to help catalyze private investment in Africa. Eventually, the World Bank Group's President, Managing Director, and Senior Vice-Presidents became involve...

Complaint > Wilmar Group-01/West Kalimantan

Eligibility: Assessment Report, Regarding Community and Civil Society concerns in relation to activities of the Wilmar Group of Companies, November 2007

...climate change, international waters, land degradation, the ozone layer, and persistent organic pollutants. GEF has a organizational structure with United Nations (UN) agencies and multilateral development banks partnering with CSOs to develop and implement projects. GEF has implementing agencies and executing agencies, which are responsible for developing and managing projects. The GEF’s implementing agencies are the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the United Nations Environmen...

Complaint > Togo LCT-01/Lome

Monitoring: English

...changes in coastal processes resulting in alterations to seabed and coastal geomorphology due to the effects of these structures on water currents, wave patterns, and water levels. Resultant impacts could include adverse changes to land erosion, sediment transport and deposition, and coastal inundation profiles … As part of the design and siting of port facilities, surveys, assessment and modeling of metocean, hydrological, sedime...

Complaint > Sustainable Urban Transport Investment Program - Tranche 3

Eligibility: Report on Eligibility (English)

...climate change if rainfall changes in the watershed of the river. There could thus be likely significant adverse and diverse environmental impacts. In addition, the Project will need to cut 68 trees from the Forest Park which are categorized as red data species under the Georgian legislation. They are 39 wych elms (Ulmus minor Mill) and 29 walnut tress (Juglans regia L). MDF intends to implement an eco-compensation program in line with Georgian legislation. 19. As part of the categoriz...

Complaint > Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project

Filing: Request for compliance review

...change in the chemical property of the water, as detailed later. This is indicated, as stated, by the persistent frothiness. • The highly saline brine, discharged from the desalination plant of the power project, might also be increasing the salinity / changing pH of the water, driving fish away. As the Tata EIA says, ‐“Rejects from the desalination plant will be discharged into the sea through the discharge channel of the cooling...

Complaint > Sao Jose dos Campos Urban Structuring Program

Dispute Resolution: Consultation Phase Report distributed to the Board of Executive Directors

...change. In April 2013, the ICIM team held a meeting for public information exchange in Banhado, in which the program’s components and its objectives were clarified, emphasizing the justification for resettlement. This was important because in the electoral period, the possibility had been raised of some of the families remaining in Banhado, which would have created high expectations among some of the area’s residents who did not wish to reloc...

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 > National Drainage Program Project

Compliance Report: 34-Investigation Report (English)

...Changes over Time in the Area of the Cholri Weir 58 Figure 9: Core Project Are a and Components of LBOD Project 61 Figure 10 : Remote Sensing Images of Changes at Pateji Dhand 81 Figure 11 : Remote Sensing Images of Changes at Me hro, Sanhro and Cholri Dhands 84 Figure 12: Remote Sensing Ima...

Complaint > Marlin-01/Sipacapa

Eligibility: CAO Follow-up Assessment Guatemala, Complaint Regarding the Marlin Mining Project,May 2006

...change from the September 2003 Sipacapa Strategic Development Plan, funded and supported by the NGOs CARE and the National Peace Fund (FONAPAZ), which endorsed metallic mining as a viable vehicle for development, albeit with recognized risks. It appears that many in the community have now concluded that the perceived risks of mining development outweigh the benefits. • The company is hopeful that over time, Sipacapans will change their position once they witness...

Complaint > Greater Beirut Water Supply Project

Eligibility: 71-Inspection Panel Report - Follow-up to Board Decision of March 10, 2011

...changes associated with eutrophic waters. Given that the storage capacity of Joun Reservoir is relatively small in volume (0.18 Mm3), and water detention time at a typical average flow rate of 3 m3/s would be too short for eutrophication within the reservoir itself to be the cause, it is likely that the water quality changes are indicative of eutrophication in upstream sources. 33. The Panel‟s expert has further noted that fluctuations in color and ammonia in the J...

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 ...

Complaint > Real LRIF-01/Coban

Compliance Report: English

...climate review for each of the Fund’s target countries. Absent analysis of contextual and third party risk, IFC was not in a position to ensure that the mitigation measures proposed were commensurate to the client’s business needs (Sustainability Policy para. 35). IFC’s pre-investment review noted changes in requirements between its Sustainability Framework 2006 and the (then new) 2012 Framework. Specifically, IFC noted reputational risk associated with the 2012 requirement to disclose projects ...

Complaint > Pronaca Expansion-01/Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas

Eligibility: English

...changes in the Ministry’s criteria for applying these norms have delayed the process, and that the Ministry of the Environment has approved environmental audits and made several follow–up and control visits to the PRONACA facilities. It also said that it has been waiting for the environmental authorities to grant the remaining environmental licenses since 2009, and that the approval process is in its final stages. The complainants also expressed concerns about how close some of the pig far...

Complaint > Private Power Generation Project

Management Action Plan: 44-Seventh Management Progress Report-20 Feb 2018

...Climate ƒ Management will follow up on GoU’s commitment to Completed Change and Hydrology disclose the Lake Victoria hydrological (water releases) Risks; Potential Impacts on information and make it available to the East African Lake Victoria; Alternative Community. Project Configurations (OP4.01) 10. Final Progress Report. The sixth Progress Report, presented in February 2017, reported that all actions under the MAP had been completed, ...

Complaint > Pando-Monte Lirio Hydroelectric Power Project

Management Action Plan: Action Plan by Management received at ICIM

...climate change, and will be complementing the Terms of Reference to strengthen the component of management of hydrological resources in the CVR basin in order to address recommendations of the ICIM. The contract for the development of the Watershed Management Plan for the CVR under the Technical Cooperation with ANAM was awarded to the Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE) and is waiting for final signature by the Contraloría of the Republic, which is expected by Januar...

Complaint > Benban Solar-02

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 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 Complainant’s perspective The Complainant indicated that he was employed by H&SH in November 2020 ...