Addressing the United Nations on September 27, 2011, Tajik Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi stated that although more than half of the water supplying Central Asia originates in Tajikistan, 35% of the nation's glaciers have disappeared in just the last 30 years.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=39861&Cr=sustainable+development&Cr1=

http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/political/unga/66/26Sept_Tajikistan.pdf



On September 28, 2011 a Brazilian court ordered a halt to the construction of the US$11 billion Belo Monte Dam, saying that it would cause irreparable harm to the environment while displacing thousands of indigenous people.  

http://www.france24.com/en/20110930-activists-hail-order-halt-huge-brazilian-dam

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15102520