Complaint > Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC)-01

Compliance Review: ToR for Philippines/ RCBC-01 Investigation - English

...climate change impacts on the Philippines and its residents, including the complaint signatories, identifying the RCBC funded coal projects as contributing to climate change. Further, the complaint raises issues related to RCBC’s environmental and social risk management system, lack of consultation and information about the named coal plants and their impacts, and the absence of effective grievance mechanisms for the affected communities. Finally, the complaint raises issues about IFC, asserting...

Complaint > Tata Ultra Mega-01/Mundra and Anjar

Compliance Review: English

...climate change, and low-carbon economic development. This plan, however, is forward-looking and not meant to be applied retroactively to projects such as Tata Mundra. I assure you that IFC is committed to working with our partners to provide clean, sustainable energy for the poor, and to create economic opportunity and improve people’s lives. The World Bank Group's Environment and Social Policies lie at the core of our twin goals—ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. These are r...

Complaint > Wilmar Group-01/West Kalimantan

Compliance Review: Letter to President Zoellick from Forest Peoples Programme, August 14, 2009

...climate change being exacerbated by deforestation and land use change, 3 • Indeed no comprehensive action plan is presented to clarify what IFC staff will actually do to ensure future compliance with standards. In the absence of a clear action plan and strategy, we call on IFC to suspend its support for the palm oil sector in Indonesia until these deficiencies are addressed. Many priv...

Complaint > Anvil Mining Congo, SARL-01/World Bank President Request

Compliance Review: English

...changes in MIGA’s due diligence processes The underwriting and risk management processes for the Dikulushi project spanned a considerable period during which there were important changes within MIGA and, toward the end of which, new World Bank Group commitments were emerging. A Preliminary Application had been submitted to MIGA in early 1996, but it was not until March 2003 that the underwriting process commenced. 28 Anvil Mining’s Definitive Application was submitted in September that year. In ...

Complaint > Anvil Mining Congo, SARL-01/World Bank President Request

Compliance Review: Environmental Impact Assessment, Dikulushi Copper Silver Project, April 2003

...Change 1992; * UN Fra ework Convention on Climate (signed 1997); * UN Co vention to Combat Desertification 1989); * UN Co vention on the Law of the Sea (signed on Ozone Layer Protection); * Montre I Protocol 1987 (UN Convention 1994; and * Interna ional Tropical Timber Agreement 1998. * The R s...

Complaint > Yacyreta Hydroelectric Project

Compliance Review: Review and Assessment (English)

...changes; hydrological changes; and possible increases in illegal fishing, among others. 166. Mitigation actions called for in the EA include scientific monitoring of fish transfer facilities, water flow management, fish re-population, and control of illegal fishing. Presently EBY has on-going programs for the study of fish populations and commercial fishing upstream, gas super-saturation monitoring, fish elevator efficiency, watershed management, and fish popul...

Complaint > Mumbai Urban Transport Project

Compliance Review: 32-Investigation Report (English)

...changes likely to result from the study, may help bring the Project into compliance with some of the provisions of Bank resettlement policy discussed in this section. Proposed Road Widening and its Displacement Effects The Requesters complain that they are being forced to move because of a change in the technical design of the Santa Cruz Link Road (SCLR). MMRDA has proposed to widen the road from 39 meters to 45.7 meters. The change is not part of the original design of the MUT...

Complaint > Downtown Redevelopment, Modernization of Metropolitan Public Transport, and of Government Offices Project

Compliance Review: Public Release of the Compliance Review Report and final decision by the Board of Executive Directors

...changes in program design; changes in program execution times; lack of detailed designs for the program even though the works already started; insufficient environmental and social assessments prior to the program; inadequate study on the feasibility of the Metrobus in Paraguay and the Microcenter of Asunción; multiple actors in charge of program execution, without a responsible party who can answer questions; prior expropriations...