need to understand the current practices of Chinese Yet despite much recent effort to estimate the value hydropower companies and their financiers, the of China’s foreign energy investments, including in drivers of these activities now and in the future, as hydropower, exact figures remain elusive. [...] In Section 2, we examine the push and pull factors The challenge is rooted in the fact that Chinese that have increased Chinese hydropower investments governments and banks do not officially disclose in certain LDCs in recent decades and the factors foreign projects, nor do recipient governments. [...] In Africa for example, governments (such as the Tekeze dam in Ethiopia), and the majority of hydropower projects are financed by other regional banks and funds (as in Sudan and Niger). [...] This usually means that the to domestic laws and organisational regulations, but the construction company takes on more responsibility for degree and rigour of implementation, and the financiers’ environmental and social aspects (Jensen-Cormier, involvement in the processes, differed considerably. [...] operates and manages the Kamchay hydropower plant Environmental impact mitigation and assessments were in Cambodia, under a long-term BOT contract, it “leaves a condition of the loan disbursement, but the Cameroon dealing with the social and environmental impacts of Government was largely responsible for enforcement the dam largely to the local authorities.” Some of our and monitoring.
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