International Rivers (IR) has released the results of an independent study it commissioned into the Environmental Impact Assessment for the Pak Beng hydropower dam, finding that “the project studies are insufficient to meaningfully evaluate the dam’s environmental and social impacts – particularly the transboundary and cumulative impacts – ...

Open Knowledge has published a great blog post summarising the status of open licencing globally in 2017. Read the post in full below.—June 8, 2017, by Danny LämmerhirtThis blog post is part of our Global Open Data Index (GODI) blog series. Firstly, it discusses what open ...