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  Billions beyond control: Projects by AIIB - the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank - lack transparency on environmental and human rights risks, report says cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/60079712 A new report by Urgewald, a Germany-based NGO, combines two assessments of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s (AIIB) transparency performance. The first draws on the 2025 DFI Transparency Index by Publish What You Fund (PWYF), which compares AIIB’s transparency policies with those...

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  Myanmar’s polluting mines selling to China through Thai companies cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/60078343 Archived Large volumes of critical minerals are being imported from Myanmar into Thailand and then mostly resold to China. At least six Thai rivers have been found to be contaminated with heavy metals linked to mining operations in Myanmar. Data suggests companies in Myanmar, Thailand and China are profiting from an industry that has created a public health crisis, impacting fo...

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  Rainfall caused bv climate change creates risks to China's farmland cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/59216599 Archived Southwest China is one of the areas with the highest long-term cropland exposure to extreme precipitation Extreme precipitation intensity has fluctuated but generally increased in the Huang–Huai–Hai Plain and Northeast China Plain since 2000. Areas where primary industry accounts for 30–40 per cent of the local economy showed the lowest levels of extrem...

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  Nepal floods: China’s strict control of Tibet makes it harder to prepare for Himalayan disasters cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/58364835 Archived […] Despite warm relations with Beijing, and the Nepalese government’s assurances that it follows the “One China” principle and permits no support for Tibetans, China’s tight control over Tibet creates complications. The region is administered as a militarised frontier. Access runs on permits and clearances, the area is closely watche...