Josh Klemm is the interim co-executive director of International Rivers.
Josh Klemm is the interim co-executive director of International Rivers, where he co-leads the management of strategy, programs, operations, and finances. He joined International Rivers in 2014 as policy director to lead the work targeting the world’s major financiers and companies active in the dams sector.
Josh previously led the Africa Program at the Bank Information Center where he ran campaigns with local partners to challenge destructive projects financed by development banks. Since joining International Rivers, Josh has led successful efforts to usher the World Bank out of the business of funding dams and has helped prevent the Green Climate Fund from bankrolling hydropower. Josh has a degree in International Affairs from James Madison University.
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The Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI), a UK-based entity established to channel private finance toward addressing climate change, has aligned itself with the influential International Hydropower Association in its eagerness to capitalize on the growing market for climate-certified projects. Yet it has bitten off more than it can chew by attempting to certify hydropower projects, which prompted 276 civil society groups to call for the scheme to be abandoned.
Beyond protecting existing sites from harm, the World Heritage Committee needs to broaden its conception of what constitutes a natural site to recognize the intrinsic value of rivers, particularly free-flowing rivers, and their critical role in sustaining life.
November 14. 2014. Washington, D.C. Hearing on the Status of Ethiopia
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Josh Klemm and Nicholas Hildyard explore how the use of water as a weapon will escalate as the war in Ukraine continues, with devastating consequences.