Leaving Paris, the European Investment Bank steps on the gas
February 12, 2018 | Read more
Distancing itself from the EU’s climate commitments enshrined in the Paris Agreement, the European Investment Bank has effectively taken a U-turn in its energy lending last week when it approved a record loan for the Trans Adriatic Pipeline.
The European Investment Bank is set to decide on the billion dollar Nenskra dam project during its board meeting today.
As pollution blankets Pristina, so do protests
January 31, 2018 | Read more
Hundreds of people fed up of breathing polluted air have joined a protest in Pristina, Kosovo earlier today.
A pressing challenge in post-Soviet cities and towns is the conversion of modernist planning into a contemporary and sustainable built environment.
A second coal fired power plant for the Tajik capital
January 17, 2018 | Read more
Tajikistan has long suffered from serious energy shortages, but is a new coal power plant really the answer?
Gacko: if only the laws were as strong as the air pollution
January 16, 2018 | Read more
Gacko, Bosnia-Herzegovina, is home to a coal power plant and an open cast mine and it has a serious smog problem. But you wouldn’t know it from official measurements because the local air quality rules are uniquely lax, and there are no publicly available, official measurements.
