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International NGOs Launch Campaign to Stop Man-Made Disaster in Ethiopia
Gibe Campagna per la Riforma della Banca Mondiale * Counterbalance * Friends of Lake Turkana * International Rivers Joint press release International NGOs are calling for the halt of the destructive...
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Nan Theun II hydropower project, Laos
By International Rivers The USD 1,3 billion Nam Theun 2 (NT2) hydropower project in central Laos displaced 6,200 indigenous peoples on the Nakai Plateau. More than 110,000 people downstream, who...
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Activists Protest Greenwashing of Dams at World Water Forum
Call for Compliance with the World’s Highest Standards Inflatable dam at the stairs of St-Charles trainstation, Marseille Marseille – Activists created a living river and inflated a large dam in...
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By Cléo Fatoorehchi for IPS MARSEILLE, France , Mar. 19, 2012 (IPS) – Numerous non-governmental organisations used the World Water Forum (WWF) held in Marseille last week as an opportunity to remind...
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Campaign against the financing of large dams
Our French member organisation ‘Les Amis de la Terre’ has started a campaign against the financing of harmful large dams. Here is why: Large dams are presented by their advocates as “green” projects...
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Counter Balance at FAME (Marseille) – Water: a common good for all
Inflatable dam at the stairs of St-Charles trainstation, Marseille Earlier this month Counter Balance participated in the Alternative World Water Forum in Marseille. The alternative forum – better...
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Read my T-shirt: No more money for large dams!
T-shirts: "Large dams are not green" "No more money for large dams" For a campaigner against the financing of large dams, Marseille was the place to be during the last World Water Forum. We found all...
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Half a billion of European public money well spent in Brazil?
What is the reason behind the European Investment Bank’s 500 million loan to the Brazilian development bank BNDES? The public money comes from the ‘climate funds’ intended for projects to stop climate...
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EIB restricts — but does not eliminate — coal and other fossil fuel lending
Solar panels with coal fired power plant in the back - photo Bankwatch Brussels — The European Investment Bank (EIB) announced today an energy policy that while introducing stringent criteria for...
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