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Rules Committee Print 113-32 House Amendment to the Senate Amendment to Text of H.R. 3547. JANUARY 13, 2014

Refer to page 1361: "The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States executive director of each international financial institution that it is the policy of the United States to oppose any loan, grant, strategy or policy of such institution to support the construction of any large hydroelectric dam (as defined in ‘‘Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision-3 Making,’’ World Commission on Dams (November 2000)."

Refer to page 1240: "The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States executive director of each international financial institution to seek to ensure that each such institution responds to the findings and recommendations of its accountability mechanisms by providing just compensation or other appropriate redress to individuals and communities that suffer violations of human rights, including forced displacement, resulting from any loan, grant, strategy or policy of such institution."

(Applies to: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Development Association, the International Finance Corporation, the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Asian Development Bank, the Asian Development Fund, the Inter-American Investment Corporation, the North American Development Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the African Development Bank, and the African Development Fund.)

International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) Performance Standards 2012

World Bank: Information Bank Information Center (BIC)

African Development Bank (AfDB): Information Bank Information Center (BIC)

Asian Development Bank (ADB): Information Bank Information Center (BIC)

World Bank. 2003. Road Economic Decision Model (RED)

***Pending: Widely accepted document describing relationship between Roads and Ecosystem Conversion

World Commission on Dams. November 2000. Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision- Making.

Brokered by the World Bank and the World Conservation Union (IUCN), the World Commission on Dams (WCD) was established in May 1998 in response to the escalating local and international controversies over large dams.  The above report is widely acknowledged as a significant contribution to the debate on dams, not only on the benefits and costs of large dams, but more generally to the current rething of development decision-making in a world deeply affected by rapid global change.  For more on this and The World Commission on Dams, click here. 

Business and Biodiversity Offset Programs (BBOP)

The Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP) is a collaboration of more than 75 leading organizations and individuals including companies, financial institutions, government agencies and civil society organizations, who are members of its Advisory Group.  Together, the members are testing and developing best practice on biodiversity offsets and conservation banking worldwide.

Dixon J. et Pagiola S. 1998. Economic Analysis and Environmental Assessment of the Environmental Economics and Indicators Unit. Environmet Assessment A Sourcebook. World Bank.