Tibet’s glacial peaks are the headwaters of the region’s eight major rivers with transnational flows. The report’s rigorous research and advanced GIS mapping details the Chinese Communist Party’s rampant construction of 100s of hydropower dams. Its first-of-kind interactive map allows users to see the impact each dam will have on local populations, religious sites, and surrounding land covers, the group said.
onsdag 11. desember 2024
REPORT: China’s rampant dam-building spree could dislocate up to 1.2 million in Tibet
Tibet and data on a sample of 193 of them betray a formula for irreparable damage to the Tibetan civilization, the environment, downstream nations, and the climate, said Washington-based Tibet advocacy group International Campaign for Tibet (ICT, savetibet.org) in a new report Dec 5.
Tibet’s glacial peaks are the headwaters of the region’s eight major rivers with transnational flows. The report’s rigorous research and advanced GIS mapping details the Chinese Communist Party’s rampant construction of 100s of hydropower dams. Its first-of-kind interactive map allows users to see the impact each dam will have on local populations, religious sites, and surrounding land covers, the group said.
Tibet’s glacial peaks are the headwaters of the region’s eight major rivers with transnational flows. The report’s rigorous research and advanced GIS mapping details the Chinese Communist Party’s rampant construction of 100s of hydropower dams. Its first-of-kind interactive map allows users to see the impact each dam will have on local populations, religious sites, and surrounding land covers, the group said.
