No climate finance for hydropower: ‘Rivers for Climate’ declaration

With less than 40 days to go for COP26, 300 organisations from 69 countries have urged the governments and global leaders to not use climate funding for “so-called sustainable hydropower schemes” as part of their ‘Rivers for Climate’ global declaration.

COP26, i.e., the Conference of Parties that meets annually to hold climate change negotiations, is to take place at Glasgow in the UK from October 31 and symbolically, the activists, environmentalist and academics came together at Glasgow to drive home their demands on Tuesday.

Representing the views of civil society, peoples’ movements, Indigenous Peoples’ organisations, scientists, and conservationists, the Declaration called out the proliferation schemes being peddled under an erroneous pretence of sustainability, a release from International Rivers, a non-profit working for river conservation, said.