CEE Bankwatch Network position on the AIIB’s Energy Sector
Publication | 13 April, 2023CEE Bankwatch expresses its deep disappointment in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s (AIIB) call for public consultation on its Energy Sector Strategy Update.
Read moreNenskra hydropower project – May 2018 update
Publication | 10 May, 2018The banks have a responsibility to ensure that when they make an investment, they mitigate and avoid situations that put persons at risk. The Nenskra dam in Georgia is one example where the lack of proper environmental and social assessment can potenti
Read moreAIIB Public Information Policy
Publication | 5 March, 2018We share Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s genuine interest and vision that access to information holds the key to ensuring that stakeholders, project-affected people and the general public can provide meaningful inputs into the design and impleme
Read moreSmoke and mirrors: why the climate promises of the Southern Gas Corridor don’t add up
Publication | 30 January, 2018The aim of this study is to quantify the fugitive emissions produced along the fossil gas supply chain of the Southern Gas Corridor, focusing on extraction and transmission operations.
Read moreAIIB financial intermediaries
Publication | 19 January, 2018In 2017, the AIIB has invested in three financial institutions – the Indonesia Regional Infrastructure Development Fund, the India Infrastructure Fund, and the Emerging Asia Fund – and that further institutionss are on the proposed projects list, inclu
Read moreNenskra HPP poses possible threat to Georgian biodiversity hot spot
Publication | 4 December, 2017In January 2016 the Georgian government decided to exclude from the Bern Convention’s candidate Emerald Site “Svaneti 1” all territories that are part of the valleys of the Nenskra and Nakra rivers which are relevant for the construction of the Nenksra
Read moreCommunities in Chuberi and Nakra, Georgia, address financiers of Nenskra hydropower plant
Publication | 23 November, 2017In this letter, communities affected by the Nenskra hydropower plant in Georgia, explain the project promoter’s inadequate engagement with locals and ask the international financial institutions to stop considering financing the project. More than 100
Read moreFailing local communities – the Land Assessment and Livelihoods Restoration Plan for the Nenskra dam
Publication | 11 September, 2017The Land Assessment and Livelihoods Restoration Plan for people to be affected by the Nenskra hydropower plant in Georgia is rigged with mistakes that will lead to significant losses for locals.
Read moreAIIB Accountability Mechanism / Complaint Mechanism
Publication | 5 June, 2017Without their internal accountability mechanisms, international financial institutions (IFIs) like the AIIB are ‘above the law’ as it is not possible to challenge them in any court of law, on national or international level. Therefore internal accounta
Read moreAIIB briefing on Nenskra HPP project
Publication | 5 June, 2017The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is in the process of assessing a loan for the 280 megawatt Nenskra hydropower plant in Georgia. In March supplementary environmental and social impact assessments (ESIA) were released in order to bring th
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