Czechia wants to phase out coal. But is natural gas the solution?

10 March 2025  | Euronews

According to calculations by CEE Bankwatch, the Czech plants near Vrato and Opatovice alone are getting a total of almost 350 million euros in subsidies from the EU Modernisation Fund.

Greening the EU budget: why climate mainstreaming needs reform

26 February 2025  | Bruegel

CEE Bankwatch Network (2024) analysed the practical implementation of the DNSH principle in the RRF using six case studies. In some cases, the simplified procedure relied solely on uncritically accepting the countries’ declarations.

Why China is Building a New Road to Russia

26 February 2025  | The B1M

“The Khada Valley is a very small valley. It’s located very close to the capital [Tbilisi] and it’s unique in terms of its cultural heritage,” said Manana Kochladze, the human rights and democratisation lead at Bankwatch. 

EIB fears ‘reputational disaster’ over revised EU green reporting

7 January 2025  | Financial Times

Anna Roggenbuck, policy officer at the campaign group CEE Bankwatch, said the EIB “is not transparent in how it calculates a project’s carbon emissions including all the scope of emissions, and because this is not public, there is no outside scrutiny”.

Is crypto keeping Tajikistan’s Rogun Dam project afloat?

23 December 2024  | Eurasianet

In a letter sent earlier this year to Bankwatch, World Bank officials defended Rogun as a potentially “transformative clean energy project that will improve domestic and regional welfare and contribute to the decarbonization of regional power grids in Central Asia, provided it is managed under sound macro-economic, commercial, and social and environmental sustainability frameworks.”

The World Bank should reconsider its mega dam project in Tajikistan

16 December 2024  | Al Jazeera

Providing funding to a repressive regime to construct the ‘highest dam in the world’ is a recipe for disaster.