300 organizations from 69 countries have urged the governments and global leaders to not use climate funding for "so-called sustainable hydropower schemes, calling out the proliferation schemes being peddled under an erroneous pretence of sustainability.
It uses information from government data and ground research to examine the extent, nature and impact of forest land diversion for hydropower projects in the remote, ecologically vulnerable Kinnaur Division of Himachal Pradesh in the Western Himalayas. The study’s key component included an exercise to investigate the ‘success’ and efficacy of plantations carried out as mitigation measures to compensate for the loss of forests to hydropower projects.
