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Engaging Chinas hydro-machine in the Mekong The experiences of a small team with big ideas Kim Geheb, Michael Victor and Rick Reece Chinese Influence in the Mekong Control Mekong headwaters. Responsible for half of all dam

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Engaging China’s hydro-machine in the Mekong

The experiences of a small team with big ideas

Kim Geheb, Michael Victor and Rick Reece

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Chinese Influence in the Mekong

Control Mekong

headwaters.

Responsible for half of all

dam construction in the Lower Mekong.

Globally dominant

hydropower builders,

perators and practitioners.

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Hydropower development in the Mekong River Basin

≈ 158 dams.

Country Commissioned Construction Planned Totals Cambodia 2 11 13 China 7 7 8 22 Laos 17 14 69 100 Myanmar 1 1 Thailand 8 8 Vietnam 14 14

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What do the Chinese say?

‘We mitigate’
‘We share data’
‘We cooperate’
‘We delay construction’

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Downstream impact

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China ‘goes out’

China Datang Corporation, China Datang Overseas Investment Co., Ltd. China Electrical Engineering Co., China Guodian, China International Electric and Water Corporation, China National Electronics Import and Export Corporation, China National Machinery & Equipment Import & Export Corporation, China Southern Power Grid, China Three Gorges Corporation, Chongqing Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (Group) Co., Ltd, Dongfang Electric Corporation, Gezhouba, Guangxi Guiguan Electric Power, Huadian, Huaneng Lancang River Hydropower, Hydro China Zhongnan Engineering Corporation, Sinohydro, Yunnan Provincial Power Investment

18 companies 39 dams

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China voted against the UN Water Course

Convention

Engineering and durability concerns.
Poor CRS, environmental and social safeguard

strategies.

Why should this concern us?

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CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food

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CPWF in the Mekong

Focus: Making hydropower

more sustainable

– Optimization of reservoirs for agriculture, livelihoods and other ESS.

Research-for-development.
Partnership based
Creating a platform for

bringing together diverse actors

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Engagement – the development of trust.
Communications – the development of shared

meaning.

Improvement of standards – improved

social/environmental safeguards and transparency.

Projects – to constructively critique and seek

common solutions.

What are we doing about it?

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Engagement

Exchange visits and workshops.

Ecosystem Study Commission for

International Rivers

HydroLancang
Yunnan Provincial Energy Bureau
China International Water and Electric

Corporation

Sinohydro
China National Electronics Export-Import