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• Megadams and Economic Folly

  Megadams and Economic Folly

  A recent review of the economic costs and benefits of 245 large dams by four Oxford professors....found “overwhelming evidence” that the real costs of large dam projects, are for t...

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• Amazon, Climate Change, and China

  Amazon, Climate Change, and China

  Climate change mitigation faces the powerful forces of a deregulated, voracious globalized economy fed by increasing demand for energy and resources....A seminal 2012 article by P...

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• Whose Future, Whose Wants?

  Whose Future, Whose Wants?

  The Rio Conference agreement, The Future We Want, pledged to “renew our commitment to sustainable development...” Meanwhile, hundreds of Brazilian Amerindians, from several threate...

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• agrobusiness
• agrobusiness
• Albras aluminum smelter (Brazil)
• Albras aluminum smelter (Brazil)
• aluminum industry
• aluminum industry
• Amazon
• Amazon
• Amazon forest
• Amazon forest
• Asian Development Bank
• Asian Development Bank
• Babaquara dam project (Brazil)
• Babaquara dam project (Brazil)
• Belem
• Belem
• Belo Monte dam (Brazil)
• Belo Monte dam (Brazil)
• BHP Billiton
• BHP Billiton
• biomass
• biomass
• Brazil
• Brazil
• Brazil Naitonal Insitute for Amazon Research (INPA)
• Brazil Naitonal Insitute for Amazon Research (INPA)
• Brazil National Development Bank (BNDES)
• Brazil National Development Bank (BNDES)
• China
• China
• China Export-Import Bank
• China Export-Import Bank
• climate change mitigation
• climate change mitigation
• coal power plants
• coal power plants
• conflict of interest
• conflict of interest
• copper
• copper
• corruption
• corruption
• cotton production
• cotton production
• dams (see also large dams)
• dams (see also large dams)
• deforestation
• deforestation
• developing nations
• developing nations
• Ecuador
• Ecuador
• Enenergy Policy (journal)
• Enenergy Policy (journal)
• energy
• energy
• energy access
• energy access
• energy alternatives
• energy alternatives
• environmental issues
• environmental issues
• Eskom (South Africa)
• Eskom (South Africa)
• Ex-Im Bank
• Ex-Im Bank
• Export Credit Agencies ECAs
• Export Credit Agencies ECAs
• forced resettlement
• forced resettlement
• global economy
• global economy
• greenhouse gas emissions
• greenhouse gas emissions
• hydroelectric projects
• hydroelectric projects
• hydropower GHG emissions
• hydropower GHG emissions
• India
• India
• indigenous peoples
• indigenous peoples
• International Energy Agency (IEA)
• International Energy Agency (IEA)
• International Monetary Fund IMF
• International Monetary Fund IMF
• iron
• iron
• Japan
• Japan
• Kusile coal plant (South Africa)
• Kusile coal plant (South Africa)
• large dams
• large dams
• Medupi coal power plant
• Medupi coal power plant
• megadams
• megadams
• methane
• methane
• mini-grid
• mini-grid
• mining
• mining
• nickel
• nickel
• off-grid
• off-grid
• oil projects
• oil projects
• Para
• Para
• perverse incentives
• perverse incentives
• Philip Fearnside
• Philip Fearnside
• political deception (in investment decisions)
• political deception (in investment decisions)
• political economy
• political economy
• psycihological delusion (in investment decisions)
• psycihological delusion (in investment decisions)
• rainforest
• rainforest
• renewable energy
• renewable energy
• resettlement
• resettlement
• Rio Plus 20 Conference on Sustainable Development
• Rio Plus 20 Conference on Sustainable Development
• roadbuilding
• roadbuilding
• solar
• solar
• South Africa
• South Africa
• South Asia
• South Asia
• soya
• soya
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• sustainable development
• sustainable development
• Tata Mundra coal plant
• Tata Mundra coal plant
• Thayer Schudder
• Thayer Schudder
• The Future We Want
• The Future We Want
• trade-offs
• trade-offs
• tropical deforestation
• tropical deforestation
• tropical forest biome
• tropical forest biome
• U.S. Export-Import Bank
• U.S. Export-Import Bank
• Uganda
• Uganda
• universal energy access
• universal energy access
• wind
• wind
• World Bank
• World Bank
• Xingu River
• Xingu River

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