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Recommendations for the EIB Group: Shaping the 2026–2030 Climate Bank Roadmap

July 15, 2025

The publication outlines the European Investment Bank’s transformation into the EU’s first public international financial institution to stop funding fossil fuels in both developed EU Member States and developing countries and significantly increasing investments in climate action and environmental sustainability.


The Connecting Europe Facility for Energy: Funding fiction, failing climate

July 15, 2025

The Clean Industrial Deal envisions an expansion of both hydrogen and carbon capture throughout the EU. The experts’ prevailing view is that hydrogen can only advance the energy transition in a few hard-to-abate sectors, and there are serious concerns over the very viability of carbon capture, especially at scale. Yet our latest analysis reveals that a little-known EU infrastructure fund has been handing out hundreds of millions to these dubious technologies.


Adapting the Just Transition Mechanism to the needs of regions in transition

July 11, 2025

This discussion paper synthesises contributions from members of the Just Transition Platform’s ‘Future of Just Transition’ Working Group and other key stakeholders on the potential design of future support for a just transition in Europe.


Letter to the European Commission – EC should maintain a horizontal target for climate and environmental investments in the post-2027 MFF

July 8, 2025

We respectfully call on the Commission to maintain and strengthen a horizontal spending target for climate and the environment in the next EU budget.


Flawed by design: How the Connecting Europe Facility still backs the fossil-fuel industry

July 8, 2025

We expose the role of the Connecting Europe Facility, a little-known EU infrastructure fund, in feeding the hydrogen hoopla.


EU biodiversity credits – barking up the wrong tree

July 7, 2025

This briefing provides an overview of biodiversity credits, offsets and nature markets, EU plans and issues with biodiversity credits.


EU climate fund shrinks support for dirty energy

July 4, 2025

In its largest investment round to date, the EU’’s Modernisation Fund extended support to multiple schemes and projects to advance the energy transition, but damaging projects still get a slice.


The threat to the EU’s LIFE programme in the next budget

June 26, 2025

The EU’s new priorities are at a major crossroads. The once cutting-edge European Green Deal is now ditched in favour of defence, security and competitiveness. These discussions are taking place against the backdrop of the much-anticipated future EU budget, the financial resource responsible for driving forward the EU’s goals.


LIFE for nature: Why Europe’s flagship environmental programme must remain part of the next EU budget

June 26, 2025

Our publication showcases successful LIFE-funded projects from Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and Slovenia. These inspiring examples demonstrate the programme’s positive impact on a wide range of ecosystems – and why it must continue to support nature in the next EU budget.  


Electrification of Riga’s heat supply brings balance to national grid

June 24, 2025

Riga’s main heat supplier, RĪGAS SILTUMS, is taking steps to transform the city’s heat supply. Having recently implemented a major electrification project, the company is now exploring options to introduce a pioneering heat storage solution for the Latvian capital.


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