This month, the new State aid Guidelines for climate, environmental protection and energy 2022 enter force. But with a surplus of loose formulations and flexible criteria, only with close public scrutiny can they support sustainable decarbonisation.
The European Union’s next long term budget and recovery package is a generational opportunity to tackle the climate crisis and build resilient societies. Yet, a lack of transparency and unwillingness to engage stakeholders, firstly with the recovery plans and now the Cohesion Funds, threatens to imperil a bounceback instead of steering the European Green Deal.
The dark side of EBRD’s Green Cities
December 20, 2021 | Read more
Residents of Almaty’s Kairat district are being suffocated by an illegal depot for diesel buses. They call on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to find a solution before the Bank approves a new loan for green public transport in Kazakhstan’s largest city.
Bankwatch member group Za Zemiata illuminates Sofia’s thermal power plant to protest plans for the construction of a waste incineration facility that would poison the capital.
European rivers on RED alert: the VEZ Svoghe case, Bulgaria
November 30, 2021 | Read more
A series of damaging hydropower plants on the Iskar river shows why the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive (RED) needs to be tightened.
When it comes to tackling the climate crisis, everyone knows we need more electricity from wind and solar. But despite their massive potential to help cut emissions and curb air pollution, heat pumps have not received the same attention.
