The How-to Guide on Environmental and Social Assessment and Management will help hydropower stakeholders plan and assess projects strategically, prepare and conduct ESIAs, deal with third-party stakeholders, budget, establish environmental and social management systems, monitor and improve performance, as well as engage with stakeholders throughout the project life cycle.

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Amid rising interest in green hydrogen as a replacement for fossil fuels, the International Hydropower Association is calling for governments and industry to scale up its production by coupling projects with clean hydropower.

Read IHA's new publication, 'The green hydrogen revolution: hydropower's transformative role' now.

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This How-to Guide helps hydropower developers and operators conserve river system biodiversity while generating renewable energy.

It details methodologies and technologies that developers and operators can use for basin-level planning, identifying project boundaries and areas of influence, understanding the distribution and value of biodiversity, mitigation and compensation measures, as well as monitoring and reporting, throughout hydropower development and operation.

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Read IHA’s 2020-2021 Annual Report to learn about our programme priorities and key achievements as part of our ongoing mission to advance sustainable hydropower.

In the past year, we celebrated our 25 year anniversary, launched the International Forum on Pumped Storage Hydropower and announced a new IHA Charter for Sustainable Hydropower, among other activities.

In the report, transformational changes to the association’s membership model are outlined and in addition the 2021 World Hydropower Congress is previewed to potential registrants.

Contents:

• Foreword by Roger Gill and Eddie Rich
• Celebrating 25 years of IHA
• Our membership model is changing
• Charter for sustainable hydropower
• 2020: The year in review
• Programmes
• The year ahead
• Governance
• How to contact IHA

Find out how to conduct sustainability assessments remotely using latest communications and monitoring technology.
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This How-to Guide helps hydropower developers to achieve good international industry practice in river management throughout a project’s life-cycle.
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This How-to Guide supports hydropower developers to identify, manage and avoid risks associated with resettlement.

It will guide practitioners to design and implement resettlement programmes in accordance with the internationally recognised Hydropower Sustainability Tools.

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Now in its seventh edition, the 2020 Hydropower Status Report is published at a time of great global uncertainty caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The report, compiled by IHA and its team of researchers and analysts, finds that:

• Covid-19 has underlined the hydropower sector’s resilience and its critical role in delivering clean, reliable and affordable energy, especially at times of crisis.
• A bold and ambitious green recovery plan involving significant investment in sustainable hydropower will be needed as part of the policy response.
• Total global hydropower installed capacity reached 1,308 gigawatts (GW) in 2019.
• Clean electricity generation from hydropower achieved a record 4,306 terawatt hours (TWh), the single greatest contribution from a renewable energy source.

Learn more: www.hydropower.org/declaration

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The Hydropower Sector Climate Resilience Guide offers a methodology for identifying, assessing and managing climate risks to enhance the resilience of hydropower projects.

The guide responds to the need for international industry good practice on how to incorporate climate resilience into hydropower project planning, design and operations.

It seeks to evolve from the default use of historical data and the assumption that hydrological variability will remain the same over the lifetime of a project. The guide also addresses how best to access, use and interpret climate change modelling and observed climate data.

The Hydropower Sector Climate Resilience Guide was developed with the financial and technical support of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank Group and its Korea Green Growth Trust Fund.

News Release - New guide to help hydropower build resilience to climate change

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The 2019 Hydropower Status Report offers insights and trends on the hydropower sector.

This PowerPoint presentation is provided as a free educational resource.

Credit: International Hydropower Association 2019.

This document describes in detail how each of the components of the simple conceptual equation to define the net GHG footprint of reservoir impoundment have been defined and calculated in the G-res tool.

Upon accessing the G-res tool, users are invited to read this guidance document and the G-res tool technical documentation. Please take the time to do so carefully, as many parameters request specific information.

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This How-to Guide will help practitioners to understand good practice in benefit sharing for hydropower project development and operation.
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The publication supports decision-makers to identify and deliver socio-economic benefits to communities, while assisting companies to avoid business risks and improve project viability.

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This How-to Guide will help operators and developers to sustainably manage the impacts of erosion and sedimentation on a hydropower project.

The publication maps out practical measures that meet good international industry practice across the project life cycle: from early concept through to detailed design, construction, and operation.

This IHA position paper sets out the immediate impacts of the Covid-19 crisis on the hydropower sector.

The paper looks at how developers and operators have responded, and outlines important hydropower-specific recommendations to assist governments and international financial institutions as they develop their economic recovery plans.

For latest news and resources, visit IHA's Covid-19 communications centre:

hydropower.org/covid-19

Presentation on the 2020 Hydropower Status Report.

This PowerPoint slide pack includes headline information and infographics on worldwide hydropower installed capacity and generation data.

These slides can be used in external presentations provided the source is credited as 'International Hydropower Association (IHA), 2020 Hydropower Status Report'.

To download the full report pdf please visit the publication page.

Learn more: www.hydropower.org/statusreport

The Hydropower Sustainability Guidelines on Good International Industry Practice (HGIIP) define performance expectations for hydropower projects.

The 26 guidelines cover a range of environmental, social and governance topics. Each guideline presents definitions of the processes and outcomes relating to good practice in project planning, operation and implementation.

As a compendium, the guidelines are a reference document for meeting the expectations of lenders, regulators and communities. Compliance with the guidelines can be specified in commercial contracts between financiers and developers, and developers and contractors. Learn more.