The International Hydropower Association (IHA), during its biennial World Congress on Advancing Sustainable Hydropower from 14-17 June, in Foz de Iguaçu (Brazil) adopted a Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol .
The Congress also reflected on the latest IPCC assessment on renewable energy, the sustainability challenges to hydropower development, opportunities arising from the growing interest in green growth strategies within the international community, as well as from the growth of carbon market finance opportunities.
It established the need to diversify power sources and consider renewables as 'complementary' rather than alternative sources of energy. Special discussions were also held on the social and environmental impacts of the Belo Monte hydropower project recently approved in Brazil's Amazon basin.
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