How Climate Change, Dams, and Geopolitics Threaten a River’s Future
Category: Mekong
‘Mekong 2030’ Anthology to Focus On Plight Of Mekong River
A new Luang Prabang Film Festival initiative has asked five Southeast Asian directors to focus on the vital river’s future.
Mekong River Commission Says Dams Are Causing of Sharp Shifts in Water Levels
Climate change played a role in this year’s widely varying water levels, but dam construction was the main culprit in sharp water level increases and decreases.
Taking a closer look at the MRC’s prior consultation process
Yesterday, participants discussed the Lao-proposed Luang Prabang hydropower project. An Pich Hatda, chief executive officer of the MRC speaks about the prior consultation process.
Southeast Asia turning away from coal power
A new report from Global Energy Monitor (GEM) finds that new coal capacity has fallen sharply from a peak of almost 13 gigawatts (GW) in 2016 to just 1.5GW in the first half of 2019.
Crop booms: What we know about smallholder involvement… and why it matters
Rural landscapes in Mekong countries are ground zero for a growing phenomena where mosaics of rice, upland gardens, bush fallows, and lush forests are succumbing to mono-cultured boom crops.
Far more needed to ‘confront the world’s climate emergency’, UN chief tells ASEAN Summit
“I am particularly worried about the future impact of the high number of new coal power plants still projected in some parts of the world, including several countries in East, South and South East Asia.”
Tibet’s Rivers Will Determine Asia’s Future
At the dawn of a new era of building dams on the Yarlung Tsangpo, countless lives and ecosystems are being risked in the name of “development” and geopolitics.
River deltas are ‘drowning,’ threatening hundreds of millions of people
Some of the most severe reductions will be found in major Asian deltas such as the Mekong, a 77 percent loss.