Hydropower News
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Myanmar coup worsens the country's broken EIA systemThe February military coup in Myanmar has cast doubt on the future of environmental protection efforts in the Southeast Asian country. -
‘Without a carbon cap, you can’t provide strong support for a carbon peak’Provinces struggled to hit energy intensity and energy consumption targets in the last Five Year Plan, prompting debate about the suitability of these targets and calls for an absolute carbon cap.
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New platform aims to reveal dam and climate impacts on the MekongResearchers hope the tool, which provides satellite imagery, maps and data, will show effects of dam building and climate change in the Mekong basin. -
As the Mekong delta washes away, homes and highways are being lostUpstream dams are blocking the sediment that nourishes the Mekong delta, while erosion and sand miners take what remains.
Hydropower Opinion
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‘Growing momentum’ to make 2021 the global action year for sustainable energy– In a bid of optimism for the new year, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) expressed confidence that clean energy would grow in 2021. -
Amid coronavirus, let's not forget about indigenous people– Indigenous communities play a critical role in preventing the emergence of diseases and must be involved in the response to the pandemic. -
How clean energy boosts climate resilience for island communities– After years of increasingly severe hurricane seasons in which island countries and territories in the Caribbean have lost power for weeks and even months at a time, the need for climate resilience could not be clearer. And as the Bahamas is showing, the cleanest energy sources can also be the most resilient.
Videos
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Hydropower illuminates a piece of history– A British conservation charity has turned to technology thousands of years old – the Archimedes screw − to provide electricity for lighting one of the historic mansion houses it looks after.
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