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New Bankwatch photo archive available to media organisations and the publicDecember 19, 2008
 CEE Bankwatch Network is today launching a new public photo gallery, available at our web site. The Bankwatch photo gallery is a collection of more than 4000 photos from our monitoring and campaigning activities on controversial projects over the last 13 years. The majority of the projects featured have involved financial support – or are being considered for support – from the international financial institutions or European Union regional funds. The online gallery provides a wide range of images reflecting central and eastern Europe's stunning natural diversity, and captures the efforts of courageous communities and civil society groups around the region that are standing up for their environmental and social rights. |
Public funds to the rescue – Bankwatch briefings on the responsibilities and choices that accompany the new beefed-up roles for the EIB and the EU Funds December 15, 2008
A recent flurry of high-level announcements has confirmed the pre-eminence of the EIB in the current economic crisis, and has also indicated the potential of the EU Funds to help drive forward a “win-win” (in the words of the European Commission) New Green Deal.Our new briefings on the EIB and the EU Funds address some of the acute issues that lie behind this sudden mobilisation of public money, in particular how they could deliver for – or further derail – our own central and eastern European backyard. Dealing with often green-sceptical governments that remain in thrall to the energy kings of the last century, our member groups are making the case for green-lighting the region's abundant green energy potential. Our Czech member Hnuti DUHA has published a study that identifies the potential for energy savings in Czech buildings as equal to the 6-fold production of electricity that would be produced by the expansion of open pit coal mining in Northern Bohemia. Czech households consume 60 percent of the national consumption of imported gas, most of which is used for heating. All eyes are now on Prague ahead of the Czech Presidency of the EU beginning on January 1. A question remains whether officials in Prague and in other CEE capitals will be willing, in the next couple of months, to snap up the golden-green opportunity being proposed by the Commission to boost energy efficiency and renewable energy in low-income households. World to Bank: leave climate finance to those who know better
December 9, 2008
Aarhus breakdown at EIB necessitates complaint
December 8, 2008
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Tell the EBRD not to back nuclear-supporting infrastructure in Ukraine by the back doorMay 7, 2008
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is considering multi-million euro financial support for a pumped storage plant in Ukraine. You may not be familiar with such creatures, but pumped storage plants are dangerous, inefficient energy facilities that are needed to support the “nuclear boom” planned in the Ukraine. Help us to stop this EBRD loan – write to the EBRD's president today!
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Letter to EBRD president regarding financing for several highway sections in Slovakia
December 5, 2008
Chelopech gold and copper mine Bulgaria
December 4, 2008
A letter to Ukrainian president Yuschenko regarding memorandum between government of Ukraine and ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih
December 2, 2008
A letter to Kazakh president Nazarbayev regarding special agreement with ArcelorMittal
December 2, 2008
Never mind the balance sheet - the dangers posed by public-private partnerships in central and eastern Europe
November 27, 2008
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