(June 1, 2007) China Power Investment Corp and China Yangtze Power Co yesterday agreed to pay 1.3 billion yuan for 18.92 percent of Shanghai Electric Power Co.
Devilry, Complicity, and Greed: Transitional Justice and Odious Debt
(June 1, 2007) The doctrine of odious debts came into its full in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century to deal with the financial injustices of colonialism and its stalking horse, despotism. The basic rule, as articulated by Alexander Sack in 1927, is that debts incurred by an illegitimate regime that neither benefit nor have the consent of the people of a territory are personal to the regime and are subject to unilateral recision by a successor government.
Seeing Redd: Avoided deforestation and the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities
(June 1, 2007) A look at the effect UN deforestation programs could have on the livelihoods of indigenous people.
Unconstitutional Regimes and the Validity of Sovereign Debt
(June 1, 2007) A Legal Perspective: Unconstitutional Regimes and the Validity of Sovereign Debt
Has Veolia Water overstepped the mark in China?
(June 2007) GWI China editor Kathy Liu suggests that the French company may be making some powerful enemies as it continues its drive to be the leading player in the country’s water market.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FUTURE: Interview with US energy expert Amory Lovins
(June 1, 2007) What does a sustainable energy future look like and how do we go about creating it?
Earthquake Reports
(May 31, 2007) Read here about the effect of earthquakes on dams… and vice versa.
Odious debt in retrospect
(May 30, 2007) Current interest in the problem of “odious debt” is intertwined with other problems that afflict many developing and emerging market countries: despotic governments, unsustainable external debt burdens, and large-scale official corruption. If the universe of odious debt cases is relatively small, then it is likely uneconomical to develop an extensive legal apparatus ex ante.
Aid-backed hydro project in India sells carbon credits
(May 29, 2007) An aid-financed Norwegian hydro company, SN Power, will earn carbon credits from its hydro project in northern India, according to the Nordic aid monitor, Development Today. The 192-megawatt Allain Duhungan hydropower project in northern India received UN approval as a CDM project on May 17.
Reflections of a dam builder: rethinking the environmental problems associated with building hydro dams
(May 28, 2007) In an exclusive interview, Shen Ganqing, former chief engineer at the Beijing Institute for Survey and Design and professor at the Beijing Normal University talks about his 50 years of experience developing hydro dams and the lessons he learned in the process.
Probe International opposes World Bank financing for Congo dams
(May 28, 2007) Probe International tells the World Bank to halt all loans to the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Inga dam project until those affected by the dam are provided with the water, sanitation, electricity, health and education services promised to them more than 30 years ago.
Vice premier calls to strengthen flood-control
(May 27, 2007) Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu has called for strengthened efforts in flood control and disaster relief in a season of heavy rains and floods in the Yangtze River, China’s longest.
May 2007 Campaign Letter
Instead of focussing on carbon credits, let’s concentrate on reducing harmful emissions at home.
China braces for extreme flooding
Chinese authorities are preparing for potentially catastrophic floods along the Yangtze River where the giant Three Gorges dam is being built as the country braces itself for extreme summer weather conditions.
Nations worried about reform pace in Mozambique
(May 24, 2007) Aid to Mozambique would remain largely unchanged in 2008 due to the African nation’s poor progress fighting corruption and implementing other reforms, a group of Western nations and donor agencies said on Thursday.
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