Complaint > Improving Rural Livelihoods through Carbon Sequestration Project

Filing: 80-Request for Inspection (English)

...Change and Forestry. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Institute for Global Environmental Strategies. [33] Pielke RA, Marland G, Betts RA, Chase TN, Eastman JL, Niles JO, Niyogi DDS, Run­ ning SW (2002). The influence of land-use change and landscape dynamics on the climate system: relevance to climate-change policy beyond the radiative effect of greenhouse gases. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A., 360: 1705-1719. [34] Peixoto J, Oort A (1992). PHYSICS OF CLIMATE. Melville, NY: ...

Complaint > Greater Beirut Water Supply Project

Eligibility: 71-Inspection Panel Final Report and Recommendation (English)

...Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol respectively), no major legislation in Lebanon directly addresses climate change. While Lebanon has demonstrated its commitment to address climate change through the enactment of Law 690/2005 (which includes climate change in the Ministry of (QYLURQPHQW¶V PDLQ PDQGDWH  WKH 0LQLVWU\ RI (QYLURQPHQW¶V 6HFRQG &RPPXQLFDWLRQ WR WKH UNFCCC states that the process of integrating climate measures into existing and planned pol...

Complaint > Private Power Generation Project

Filing: 44-Request for Inspection (English)

...climate warming will disturb the historical balance of lake rainfall and evaporation, and will create serious deficits." vii.A recent (2006) technical report of Directorate of Water Development (DWD), a lead agency, is missing in BEL's SEA. This could probably address the issues of hydrology, climate change, declining water levels in Lake Victoria and River Nile. No study released to date analyses the risks to Bujagali performance from climate change-induced drought and other h...

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 > 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 > Private Power Generation Project

Management Response: 44-Management Report and Recommendation

...climate change risks. The Economic Analysis relied on published analyses of climate change impacts on the Nile River hydrology by Tate, Sutcliffe et al (Appendix B4 of Economic Study). This approach concluded that no significant reduction in hydrological flow is expected as a result of climate change during the life of the Project and was independently reviewed by hydrologist Professor Juan Valdes of the University of Arizona, who also did not find evidence of downside risk of climate change on ...

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 > Water and Sanitation Service Improvement Project and Water and Sanitation Service Improvement Project - Additional Financing

Filing: 115-Request for Inspection-26Nov2016

...climate is modified to “modified equatorial climate”. This climate is much cooler than the general tropical continental climate or highland subtropical climate and changes with altitude, becoming semi-arid towards the lower reaches of the catchment. Climate Change versus Climate Variability Climate Change refers to a change in the state of the climate that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer (a permanent shift in the normal patterns of climate) while Climate variability ...

Complaint > Kosovo Power Project (Proposed)

Management Response: 78-Management Response (English)

...climate change) on the water demand values for each system. Table 35 : Impact of different parameters on the Water Demand from Iber River Basin System Population Agriculture Industry Growth Climate Change – Climate Change – Growth Impact Growth Impact Impact (%) dry year- Impact (%) very dry year- (%) (%) ...

Complaint > Private Power Generation Project

Eligibility: 44-Eligibility Report (English)

...Climate Change (IPCC) is issuing its Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report (Working Group II: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability), which addresses regional impacts of climate change, particularly with regard to temperature and precipitation. 38 The Agreed Curve, as described in the Management Response and SEA, is a long-established formula designed to ensure that water flows downstream remain consistent with what would have occurred under natural conditions without the existing dams...

Complaint > Improving Rural Livelihoods through Carbon Sequestration Project

Management Response: 80-Management Response (English)

...Climate Change (UNFCCC) Kyoto Protocol. The Project must comply with CDM rules, which have been agreed by over 185 countries that are parties to the Kyoto Protocol, including India. The Bank is obliged to follow the CDM framework and its application, and its third party audit and certification process. 4. The Project is implemented by two Project Entities, JK Paper Mills Limited (JKPL) and VEDA Climate Change Solutions (VCCSL). The Project Entities are required to comply with the CDM framew...

Complaint > Eskom Investment Support Project

Eligibility: 65-Eligibility Report and Chairperson Statement (English)

...climate change related claims mentioned in the Request that do not raise issues of compliance under Bank policy, such as for example whether the Project meets the requirements of the Bank strategy document on “Development and Climate Change: A Strategic Framework for the World Bank Group”. With respect to impacts on the economy, the Panel will similarly be guided by OP 10.04 - Economic Evaluation of Investment Operations, should it need to examine whether the Bank adequately assessed the impacts...

Complaint > Mongolia Mining Infrastructure Investment Support (P118109) and Mining Infrastructure Investment Support - Additional Financing

Filing: 102 - Request for Inspection (English)

...climate change in Mongolia; • Loss of geologic stability and increased risk of damage from landslides due to erosion, earthquakes, and flooding from catastrophic dam failure; • Unpredictable water flows caused by climate change and desiccation of Mongolian landscape will be exacerbated by dam projects. Flow volumes are decreasing in rivers such as the Orkhon, and data suggests that under current conditions the Orkhon River will not survive the planned diversion to t...

Complaint > Water Supply Augmentation Project, Greater Beirut Water Supply Project and its Additional Financing

Filing: Request for Inspection

...climate changes but disregarded the impact of dam constructions on the Global Climate Change. Studies have demonstrated that dams play a negative role in the global carbon cycle and consequently affect Earth's climate, not to mention the high amounts of methane emissions they generate. 2 Recently, following the second Environmental and Social Panel’s request, the borrower initiated a series of me...

Complaint > Private Power Generation Project

Management Response: 44-Management Response (English)

...Climate Change. BEL’s SEA reports do not ad- The SEA addressed social and environmental issues dress climate change and its possible impact on related to the project; the broader climate change (and power production at Bujagali. Current and future cli- hydrology) aspects were addressed in different studies mate models indicate hotter, drier conditions, lower which have also been publicly disclosed. lake levels and lower downst...

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 > Forest Concession Management and Control Pilot Project

Management Action Plan: 36-Third Management Progress Report (English)

...climate change (see www.worldbank.orglbiodiversitv or www.worldbank.org/climatechange), which emphasizes the important roles that natural ecosystems play in climate change mitigation and ...

Complaint > Eskom Investment Support Project

Management Response: 65-Management Response (English)

...Climate Change (UNFCCC) in August 1997, and accession to the Kyoto Protocol in July 2002; (b) adoption of a National Climate Change Response Strategy (2004), which outlined a broad range of principles and policy measures for mitigation and adaptation to climate change; (c) association with the Copenhagen Accord of 2009, which has led to South Africa's political commitment to implementing economy-wide emission targets for 2020; (d) issuance of the Regulations for Energy Efficiency; (e) recent iss...

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...