Complaint > Private Power Generation Project

Compliance Report: 44-Investigation Report (English)

...Climate Change Risks The Requesters aver that the project preparation and assessment reports do not address climate change and its possible impact on power production at Bujagali. Management, on the other hand, claims that climate change aspects were addressed in different studies, such as the SSEA, which includes a detailed analysis of the impacts of climate change in the Nile Equatorial region comprising Bujagali. ...

Complaint > Sostanj Thermal Power Plant

Compliance Report: Compliance Review Report

...climate change. For example, among the general provisions of the ESP, Paragraph 6 states emphatically that: ‘The Bank recognises the importance of climate change mitigation and adaptation and their high priority for the Bank’s activities in the region. It intends to further develop its approach towards climate change, notably as regards the reduction of greenhouse gases, adaptation, promotion of ...

Complaint > Eskom Investment Support Project

Compliance Report: 65-Investigation Report (English)

...climate change issues 100. Global climate change is widely acknowledged in the international community as one of the most serious threats to sustainable development in the 21st Century. South Africa is a party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the international treaty designed to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere to prevent dangerous anthropogenic climate change. 101. Since 1994, South Africa has engaged act...

Complaint > Boskov Most Hydro Power

Compliance Report: Compliance Review Report

...changes are considered more than adequate. Cumulative impact on climate: The relatively small changes in greenhouse gas emissions arising from the Project would not significantly affect global climate change but the Project would contribute to reducing FYR Macedonian greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in line with the National Energy Strategy. Analysis of alternatives: Alternatives should be both “meaningful and realistic” and the Government of FYR Ma...

Complaint > Dariali HPP

Compliance Report: Compliance Review Report

...climate change and adaptation issues.” See generally Bjørn Petter Kaltenborn, Christian Nellemann & Ingunn Ims Vistnes, High mountain glaciers and climate change – Challenges to human livelihoods and adaptation UNEP (2010). The ESIA here does not appear to have considered the impact of climate change on the likelihood of a glacier break at the Devdoraki Glacier based on increased glacial melting attributable to climate change. 18 See, e.g., American Society of Civil Engineers, Geotechnical Basel...

Complaint > Santa Fe Road Infrastructure Project and Provincial Road Infrastructure Project, 3rd Request

Compliance Report: 51-Investigation Report (English)

...climate change effect. 27. It is important to note that even though the factor used to account for climate change is in the vicinity of 10 %, due to the nonlinearity of the hydrologic system response the final effect on peak flows will be greater than this percentage. However, in spite of these differences it is unclear why the consideration of climate change was restricted to Section II. This again demonstrates a lack of coherence among the basic criteria used in the hyd...

Complaint > Panama Canal Expansion Program

Compliance Report: Publication of Panel Report

...climate change and ENSO events as environmental risks to the Project, even though some of this analysis was not provided directly by the ACP. But the Panel could find no evidence, that the Bank identified the risk that human consumption could be greater than anticipated due to urban growth rates. 5.26 Evidence of the Bank’s identification of the risks associated with climate change and ENSO events is found in various Bank documents for the Project. For ...

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 > 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 > 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 the co...

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 > 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 > 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 > Togo LCT-01/Lome

Compliance Report: English

...changes to the sedimentary dynamics in the Gulf of Guinea. Impacts can be seen from the eastern coast of Ghana to Benin, including along the entire coast of Togo. Other factors such as exceptional natural events and climate change, as well as the specific geomorphology of the coast, are acknowledged as contributing to coastal erosion. In the past decade, the Government of Togo has developed a national approach to address the issue of coastal erosion. As part of the construction of the new Port o...

Complaint > Proposed Kosovo Power Project and Second Additional Financing Energy Sector Clean-up and Land Reclamation Project

Compliance Report: 103-Inspection Panel Investigation Report(English)

...Climate Change SMELT Stepwise Mining Expansion and Land Take TA Technical Assistance ToR Terms of Reference UNMIK United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo USAID United States Agency for International Development US$ United States Dollar WBG World Bank Group ii Table of Contents Acknowledgements...................................................................

Complaint > EPS Restructuring

Compliance Report: Compliance Review Report

...changes The Bank Management should report on the progress and development of the ‘guidance note’ and on the outcome of this process. 40 Bank Management Response, Annex 2 to the EAR, p. 16. 41 Among others, the Task Force on Access to Information purports to “Continue[s] strengthening implementation of the Convention's provisions on access to information, including through promoting exchange of information, experiences, challenges and good practices concerning public access to information on the ...

Complaint > Western Poverty Reduction Project

Compliance Report: 16-Investigation Report (English)

...changed. In each case in which the autonomous status was changed, it involved a request by the autonomous area to be upgraded to a municipality (which is not eligible to be treated as an autonomous area) or a request by the minority nationality for the entire community to be moved to another area.8 Thus, the Commission advised that mere changes in numbers or concentration of the minority nationality living in the area do not trigger the loss of s...

Complaint > Pando-Monte Lirio Hydroelectric Power Project

Compliance Report: Publication of Panel Report

...changes in hydrology and disruption of river continuity; (b) potential cumulative impacts on water use, including ecotourism and rafting activities, due to changes in hydrology and barrier effects of the dams; (c) potential cumulative impact on estuary habitat due to sediment deposits related to the erosion caused by the Project; (d) potential changes in water quality due to sediments and residues from the drilling process; (e) absence of an understanding of the cumulati...

Complaint > Sustainable Urban Transport Investment Program - Tranche 3

Compliance Report: CRP's Final Report in English[PDF] and in Georgian [PDF]

...Climate Change Department SPS – Safeguard Policy Statement TOR – Terms of Reference WBG EHS – 2007 Environmental, Health, and Safety General Guidelines of the (Guidelines) World Bank Group WHO – World Health Organization WEIGHTS AND MEASURES dBA – A-weighted decibels km ...

Complaint > Second Urban Environment Sanitation Project

Compliance Report: 49-Investigation Report (English)

...changes in project concept or design, as appropriate, as the project evolves or circumstances change; (d) identify the key risks to project sustainability and recommend appropriate risk management strategies and actions to the borrower; and (e) prepare the Bank’s Implementation Completion Report to account for the use of Bank resources, and to draw lessons to improve the design of future projects, sector and country strategi...