UN climate fund should learn from past mistakes and reject large hydro dam projects

Carbon Market Watch criticizes the Green Climate Fund's approval of three large hydro dam projects in Nepal, Tajikistan, and the Solomon Islands, arguing that such investments contradict the fund's goal of promoting a paradigm shift and risk repeating the human rights and environmental failures seen in the Barro Blanco project in Panama.

• In April 2017, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board approved eight projects totaling $750 million, which included three large hydro dam projects located in Nepal, Tajikistan, and the Solomon Islands, despite opposition from 272 organizations citing risks to human rights, the environment, and economic costs.
• The Barro Blanco hydro dam in Panama is presented as a failure of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) where reservoir flooding since June 2016 has destroyed the crops, houses, and religious sites of the Ngäbe people, who claim they were not properly consulted.

APA

Voigt, J., & Brasier, P.-J. (2017). UN climate fund should learn from past mistakes and reject large hydro dam projects. Carbon Market Watch. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/2017/04/13/un-climate-fund-should-learn-from-past-mistakes-and-reject-large-hydro-dam-projects/

Chicago

Voigt, Juliane, and Pierre-Jean Brasier. UN climate fund should learn from past mistakes and reject large hydro dam projects. Carbon Market Watch, 2017. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/2017/04/13/un-climate-fund-should-learn-from-past-mistakes-and-reject-large-hydro-dam-projects/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{voigt2017climate, author = {Voigt, Juliane and Brasier, Pierre-Jean}, title = {{UN climate fund should learn from past mistakes and reject large hydro dam projects}}, publisher = {Carbon Market Watch}, year = {2017}, month = apr, url = {https://carbonmarketwatch.org/2017/04/13/un-climate-fund-should-learn-from-past-mistakes-and-reject-large-hydro-dam-projects/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }