Tag: <span>RRR_River-related Risks</span>

River Action Day 2017 Highlights Transboundary Threats from Dams and Corruption

The International Day of Action to Protect Rivers was relatively peaceful at our northern latitudes, where rivers are still covered with ice. It consisted of five environmental education events, two public lectures and two petitions released to mass-media. Such relative quietness in part is a consequence of wise and timely …

Chinese Banks keep silence about Unaddressed Environmental and Social Risks of the Yamal LNG project

Three months ago the Rivers without Boundaries Coalition, Ecodelo Alliance and Biodiversity Conservation Center send detailed inquiries to Chinese investors of Yamal LNG Project at the mouth of the great Russian Ob River. In last three years massive investments by China Development Bank, China Export Import Bank and the Silk …