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 > Panama Canal Expansion Program

Appraisal: Issuance of Assessment Report

...Climate Change II (PN-L1074).56 Under component 2, “Government and Financial Management to Improve and Consolidate Institutional Capacity for Comprehensive Management of Natural Disasters and Climate Change Adaptation,” the proposed Project aims to formalize the creation of a “National Platform of Disaster Risk Reduction” which envisions the inclusion of the PCA among its member agencies. In this context, there might be an opportunity to utilize the proposed natural hazard risk assessment (supra...

Complaint > Panama Canal Expansion Program

Management Response: Submission of the final document to the Board of Executive Directors for consideration

...climate change on water availability. Although ACP projects a 7 percent cushion to allow for an increase in demand, any significant change in these variables could lead to a situation where there is not enough water to allow normal canal traffic and other uses. In anticipation, indigenous communities affiliated to the Unión Indígena y Campesina have already expressed concern and active opposition to the planned damming of rivers in their territories as the Panama Canal Watershed could expand to ...