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Briefing: Sharing the benefits of hydropower to improve displaced people’s livelihoods

Briefing: Sharing the benefits of hydropower to improve displaced people’s livelihoods

Jan 25, 2022 | News, Social impacts

The new IIED briefing from Jamie Skinner and Christopher Schulz sets out a series of policy recommendations for sharing the benefits of hydropower to improve displaced people’s livelihoods. ‘Benefit sharing’ is not yet widely understood and there are...
Will green bonds boost finance flows to sustainable hydropower?

Will green bonds boost finance flows to sustainable hydropower?

Apr 7, 2021 | News, Social impacts

By Jamie Skinner, IIED The Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) has recently expanded the criteria of the Climate Bonds Standard to include sustainable hydropower projects. Over US$1 trillion of green bonds have been issued to date, and by extending its criteria to...
Webinar: Hydropower in LDCs with Chinese characteristics

Webinar: Hydropower in LDCs with Chinese characteristics

Mar 10, 2021 | Social impacts

Lila Buckley (IIED) & Professor Wang Hua (University of China and PACE)  The focus of this webinar is the dynamics and safeguarding practices of Chinese overseas hydropower investments, providing insight into whether practices are improving and what is driving...
Resettlement of Gumuz Communities around Ethiopia’s Blue Nile Dam: NEW open access research

Resettlement of Gumuz Communities around Ethiopia’s Blue Nile Dam: NEW open access research

Aug 13, 2020 | East Africa and Eastern Nile, Social impacts, Uncategorised

Read the FutureDAMS working paper ‘Resettlement of Gumuz Communities around Ethiopia’s Blue Nile Dam‘. This working paper explores the programme of resettlement of Gumuz farmers and others living at low altitude along the Nile and Beles rivers, whose home...
Webinar – Climate finance for hydropower: enabling the transition to a low-carbon future

Webinar – Climate finance for hydropower: enabling the transition to a low-carbon future

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...
Dams and Covid-19: Some Thoughts

Dams and Covid-19: Some Thoughts

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...
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