Fuelling controversy
15 July 2013 | European Voice
The EU’s investment bank is under pressure to stop financing coal plants
EU Bank ‘Funding Polluters’
15 July 2013 | IPS
The European Union Commissioner for Climate Action, has called for the European Investment Bank, the largest institutional bank in the world, to take a leading role in eliminating public support for fossil fuels.
Mongolian herders submit complaint to European public bank
11 July 2013 | Intercontinental Cry Magazine
Ulaanbaatar – A group of Mongolian herders submitted today [July 5] an official complaint to the Project Complaints Mechanism of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), hoping to initiate a process of evaluation of the adverse impacts on their health and livelihoods of two mining projects financed by the international public lender.
Client Earth criticises development banks’ lending policies
11 July 2013 | Power Engineering International
A top environmental law agency has applauded European Commissioner for Climate Policy Connie Hedegaard for her stance on development banks’ lending practices to fossil fuel power generators.
Hedegaard applies pressure to development banks
10 July 2013 | Power Engineering International
The momentum towards a world, or a Europe at least, where renewable power dominates was added to this week, when Connie Hedegaard said development banks ought to take “a lead role in eliminating public support for fossil fuels.”
EU climate commissioner calls for development banks to cut ties with fossil fuels
10 July 2013 | Blue and Green Tomorrow
The EU’s commissioner for climate change has urged three large development banks to stop investing in fossil fuels and to instead promote renewable energy in the western Balkans.
