May 28, 2020 | comment, News, power systems
By Eduardo Alejandro Martínez Ceseña, Wentao Zhu, Jose Nicolas Melchor Gutierrez, Mathaios Panteli The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities of critical services and infrastructures to large scale crises and the power sector is no exception. Electrical...
May 26, 2020 | News, Social impacts
By Sejal Patel and Neha Rai, IIED Tuesday 2nd June 2020 Watch: https://youtu.be/egmlWKoNNqQ In this presentation, we discuss the role of climate financiers in supporting hydropower, and look at why hydropower project developers should be interested in the benefits of...
May 15, 2020 | Finance, News, Research
In their most recent paper, ‘Mapping the evolving complexity of large hydropower project finance in low and lower-middle income countries‘, published in Green Finance, Markkanen, Plummer Braeckman and Souvannaseng describe and compare the advantages and...
May 7, 2020 | Finance, News
By Judith Plummer Braeckman and Sanna Markkanen, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership Watch the webinar on YouTube Sustainably developed hydropower can be cost effective and can offer many additional benefits beyond power generation, such as water storage...
Apr 23, 2020 | comment, News, Politics and governance, Social impacts
By David Hulme and Barnaby Dye, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester Today we live in a lockdown world as the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps across countries and continents: air travel has virtually ceased; billions of people have been told to stay at...
Mar 20, 2020 | Finance, News, Water resources
Water at COP25: Resilience enables climate change adaptation FutureDAMS’ researchers Julien Harou, Judith Plummer Braeckmann and Sanna Markkanen presented at COP25 (Madrid, December 2019). Reflecting on their experience, they have contributed to the latest...
