Cumulative Impact Assessment and Management of Renewable Energy Development in the Sekong River Basin, Lao PDR: Final Inception & Scoping Report

The Sekong River Basin is an important transboundary tributary in the Lower Mekong that rises in the Central Highlands of Vietnam and flows through Laos and Cambodia before it joins with the Sesan and the Sre Pok rivers around 7.5 km upstream the confluence with the Mekong. The Sekong River Basin is considered particularly important as one of the few remaining major Mekong tributaries with high biodiversity value and few hydropower projects in operation. The development of additional hydropower, wind and solar power resources, together with expanded industrial operations such as mining, logging and plantation forestry, indicate a significant risk of cumulative, including transboundary impacts. The development and implementation of basin plans and pilot projects like this Cumulative Impact Assessment (CIA), aim to ensure that ecosystems are preserved and at the same time economic and social services enhanced, e.g. through optimizing and distributing the benefits from hydropower development and other renewables. This is the Final Inception & Scoping Report of the Cumulative Impact Assessment and Management of Renewable Energy Development in the Sekong River Basin, Lao PDR. The International Finance Corporation (IFC) hired Multiconsult, Deltares and Lao Consulting Group to carry out the assessment.

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