FutureDAMS on the BBC
FutureDAMS research Barnaby Dye featured extensively in a BBC World report on ‘the challenge of dams’ broadcast this weekend. Following Egypt’s recent call for international mediation with Ethiopia to help agree an operating framework for the GERD dam on the Nile, the...
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Understanding the concepts and terminology of financing sustainable hydropower projects. New working paper.
By Sanna Markkanen Financing sustainable hydropower projects in emerging markets: an introduction to concepts and terminology (Working paper) is the first in a series of working papers emerging from the CISL’s contribution to the FutureDAMS project, with a specific...
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Financing sustainable energy infrastructure – CISL online survey
The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) are seeking responses to an online survey: 'Financing Energy Infrastructure'. The purpose of the survey is to help understand how financiers make decisions on renewable energy infrastructure...
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FutureDAMS Annual Forum 2019
FutureDAMS Annual Forum, 17-19 September 2019, Manchester UK The FutureDAMS Annual Forum brought together more than 70 members of the consortium for three days of participatory activities and discussion. The objectives of the event were to: Develop a culture of...
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New Research: Continuity or Change in the Infrastructure Turn?
Development is undergoing an infrastructure turn, no more so than in resurgent dam building. But how are new projects planned and constructed? Are we seeing the underestimation of economic, environmental and social costs? Have past critiques changed infrastructure...
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Hydropower & Dams AFRICA 2019: private finance panel discussion
AFRICA 2019, Water Storage and Hydropower Development for Africa conference, 2nd-4th April 2019, Windhoek, Namibia AFRICA 2019 brought together representatives of organisations active in hydropower and dams in Namibia, Africa and worldwide. The event focused on the...
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Who should carry the financial risks in private sector financed hydropower projects?
Read the latest FutureDAMS article published in International Water Power Magazine (IWP&DC) by Judith Plummer Braeckman from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and Jamie Skinner from the International Institute for Environment and...
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The World Commission on Dams 20 years on
FutureDAMS is all about improving the decision-making around large dams. Where to build them, how to reduce negative impacts, how to maximise positive impacts, and, occasionally, when not to build them. Twenty years ago, the World Commission on Dams (WCD, 1998-2000)...
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We’re hiring: Communications and Impact Manager
FutureDAMS is hiring! We're looking for highly motivated Communications and Impact Manager to engage key audiences and support real-word impact on FutureDAMS (4 days) and the Research and Evidence Facility on Migration in the Horn of Africa (1 day). This role...
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What to do with old dams?
By Barnaby Dye Many industrialised countries in Europe and America built dams in the early 20th, or even 19th century. As these infrastructures age, their services may be better replaced by other technologies. Often, this happens when sedimentation builds up in a...
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