Water management decision making is concentrated in the hands of the politically and financially powerful few, who determine how water gets allocated.
Tag: sustainability
Pushing GMS food up the value chain
Conditions are ripe GMS to embrace sustainable agriculture and become a source of environmentally friendly produce.
Organic tourism: but what of the farms, farmers and ecology it relies on?
The ADB is featuring organic food as a new type of tourism in the GMS, while farmers themselves are suffering, as is the ecology many of these tourists want to experience.
Region’s largest bank: Divesting from fossil fuels will take time
Transitioning away from fossil fuel-based energy can’t happen overnight, as banks’ exposure to oil and gas projects are too significant.
Rethinking hydropower in Myanmar
If developed as planned, the 50 large hydropower projects would permanently segment watersheds, flatten the peaks and valleys of the flood pulse and trap nutrient-rich sediment behind dams.
Mekong subregion shapes up for tourism influx
Infrastructure and services demand seen rising sharply
Going green: Clean energy generates giant investments across Vietnam
It looks like investors are trying to cash in on incentives for green power projects.
Striking a balance between conservation and development at the heart of Mekong struggle
DEPENDING on who you speak to, there are naturally differing perspectives in regard to the future of the Mekong River, as most people living along the river look for a sustainable future through conservation of the existing ecosystem, while governments seek balanced resource usage and benefit-sharing arrived at via diplomacy and negotiation.
VN green energy gets strong tail wind
Việt Nam is hoping to boost its renewable energy production, especially wind and solar energy, to more than 10.7 per cent of total generation by 2030, up from the previously planned 6 per cent.
It plans to increase the rate to at least 7 per cent by 2020, up from the previous target of 4.5 per cent.
The country now relies heavily on electricity from coal and hydropower.
The Thanlwin River – a victim of misdirected electric power
The Myanmar government is trying to focus on generating electricity from cost-effective water resources to meet local demand for electricity.
The public does not accept the Myitsone dam project as a way to generate hydroelectric power from the Ayeyawady River, nor does it accept coal-fired power projects. When it comes to gas-fired power projects, gas from the existing projects is not enough for domestic consumption as it is being excessively produced for export purposes. Besides, natural gas has a high production cost.
The Thanlwin River, also called the Salween River, is set to become the next victim. But the public does not accept this either.