Complaint > Natural Resource Management Project and Kenya Climate Smart Agriculture Project, and Kenya Urban Support Program

Registration: Notice of Non-Registration

...Climate Smart Agriculture Project. The KCSAP was approved on February 9, 2017, and the closing date is January 31, 2022. The development objectives are "to increase agricultural productivity and build resilience to climate change risks in the targeted smallholder farming and pastoral communities in Kenya, and in the event of an Eligible Crisis or Emergency, to provide immediate and effective responser" The KCSAP benefits 24 counties selected on the basis of: (i) vulnerability to climate change a...

Complaint > Private Power Generation Project

Registration: 44-Notice of Registration (English)

...climate change impacts on power production, which may cause lower lake levels and lower downstream river flows. These issues were raised in a 2005 report commissioned by the Uganda Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development and prepared by Water Resources and Energy Management International, Inc (WREM), a US consultancy firm. The Requesters state that BEL also ignored a technical report by the Directorate or Water Development (DWD) on climate change effects. An additional issue that, in the Requ...

Complaint > Improving Rural Livelihoods through Carbon Sequestration Project

Registration: 80-Notice of Registration (English)

...climate change. This Project is officially registered under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Clean Development Mechanism (CDM, Registration No.4531). Specifically, according to the Project Design Document (PDD) 1 the objectives of the Project are: • “To pilot reforestation activities for generating high-quality greenhouse gas removals by sinks 2 that can be measured, monitored and verified; • To develop plantation ...

Complaint > Eskom Investment Support Project

Registration: 65-Notice of Registration (English)

...Climate Change. The Requesters believe that the proposed Project will “compromise the World Bank’s commitments on climate change” and make it more difficult for South Africa to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and meet its obligations. Moreover, they allege there is no certainty to the claims made by the World Bank that the use of cleaner coal technology or carbon capture and storage will sufficiently control the “enormous amounts of pollutants” produced by the proposed Project. Finally, they...

Complaint > Bangladesh Modern Food Storage Facilities Project

Registration: 116-Notice of Non-Registration-13Mar2017

...Climate Change Resilience Fund of US$ 25 million and a US$5 million beneficiary contribution. The Project has been categorized as environmental Category "B", and has triggered OP/BP 4.01 Environmental Assessment and OP/BP 4.12 Involuntary Resettlement. The Request 8. The Request' is related to Component A of the Project, and was submitted by 26 farmers from the Project area who expect to be beneficiaries. The farmers have authorized a local social entrepreneur to represent them in th...

Complaint > Water Supply Augmentation Project, Greater Beirut Water Supply Project and its Additional Fiancing - Second Request

Registration: Notice of Non-Registration

...climate change (2050) on the water resources feeding into the Bisri Dam, and it did not evaluate alternatives to limit water shortage: The variation of water availability (Precipitation, infiltration, surface runoff, and Evapotranspiration) with climate change is not tackled. The assumption that surface runoff increases with climate change is not supported with appropriate references. D. Following concerns about the water quantities in the Greater Beirut Water Supply Pr...

Complaint > Quilleco Hydropower Project

Registration: 67-Notice of Registration (English)

...change for Certified Emission Reductions (“CERs”) with the aim of mitigating global climate change through carbon emission reductions, under the expectation that the Project will result in reduction in greenhouse gas emissions that are additional to any that would occur in the absence of the Project. The ERPA for the Quilleco Hydropower Project, which has already commenced operations, was entered into between Hidroelectrica Guardia Vieja S.A. (“HGV”), a subsidiary of Colbun SA, and the ...

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 > Boosting Human Capital and Productivity Development Policy Financing with a Deferred Drawdown Option

Registration: Notice of Non-Registration

...changed to only include companies that repeat infractions within the same six-month period, so that “[e]very six months their slate is wiped clean, and infractions committed more than six months ago are forgotten.” 12 • The shortened review period for environmental assessments to 45 days and changes in land policies introduced in Articles 20 to 22 of the law have “reduced incentives for oil companies to strictly comply with environmental stand...

Complaint > Integrated Disaster and Land Management

Registration: 101-Notice of Non-Registration(English)- 2 March 2015

...Climate Change Activities (USD 3,703,703). The total amount allocated for the Project is USD 16,947,407. The Project’s closing date is February 18, 2016. 9. According to the Project Appraisal Document (PAD), the Project “will benefit communities living in flood-prone areas in all five regions of Togo (Savanna, Maritime, Plateau, Central, and Kara). The project will also benefit communities settled in the buffer zones of selected protected areas as well as farmers in selected rural areas.” 1...