Update to the Bern Convention on the Complaint No. 2016/09 – Possible threat by hydropower to “Svaneti 1” Candidate Emerald Site
February 22, 2022
The Svaneti 1 Candidate Emerald site in Georgia is threatened by the decision of the Georgian government to reduce its size for construction of the 280 MW Nenskra Hydro Power Plant (HPP) project. This is an update by the complainants on the Complaint No. 2016/9 – Possible threat to “Svaneti 1” Candidate Emerald Site who request an on-the-spot appraisal mission by the Bern Convention to Georgia, in order to investigate the threats to rivers that were recorded by Bankwatch during its fact-finding mission in July 2021.
Open letter to the EBRD and JP Autoceste about the legality of the project-level Spatial Plan of 2017 for the Corridor Vc in the Hercegovina-Neretva Canton
February 21, 2022
The letter requests that the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development not sign the loan agreement for the Corridor Vc motorway subsections Mostar North – Mostar South until additional biodiversity baseline studies for the subsection tunnel Kvanj – Buna and alternative route assessments are completed. The letter also presents the conclusions of the discrimination complaint filed by war returnees, as well as the ramifications for the Bank’s rules on vulnerable groups. It asserts that signing the loan for the subsection Mostar North and South should be delayed until additional biodiversity studies and careful consideration of route alternatives are completed, particularly since the Bank’s independent accountability mechanism is about to finalize its recommendations to management in the first half of 2022.
Towards a people-powered, green transformation in Almaty
February 16, 2022
The EBRD must move away from its carbon tunnel vision and widen its perspective on all impacts of climate investments in cities
Run over by a massive motorway project, Mostar residents demand to be heard
February 11, 2022
Mostar residents were never properly consulted about the proposed pan-European motorway that threatens their livelihoods and nature of the Neretva valley. After a recent win in a discriminatory lawsuit, they’re hoping that the controversial route around Mostar might finally be consulted with them and reconsidered.
No resolution for Ukrainian villagers after three years of negotiations with agro-giant MHP
February 7, 2022
‘Peaceful negotiations’ between village residents in Vinnytska oblast and Myronivskyi Hliboprodukt (MHP), the largest agribusiness company in Ukraine, have ended abruptly, leaving all issues related to the company’s impacts on local communities unresolved.
EIB finances sustainable transport, renewable energy
February 4, 2022
The European Investment Bank (EIB) – the financial arm of the EU – approved on February 2 plans to further strengthen the EIB Group’s …
ЕБРР инвестировал в Узбекистан рекордную сумму в $690 млн. Как расходуются эти средства?
February 4, 2022
Базирующаяся в Праге организация «Бэнквотч» (Bankwatch Network) выразила обеспокоенность недостаточностью «прозрачности и диалога» в …
БАБР дар Узбекистон $690 млн сармоягузорӣ кардааст
February 4, 2022
Созмони Бэнквотч (Bankwatch Network) аз адами шаффофият ва муколама дар лоиҳаҳои Бонки аврупоии бозсозӣ ва рушд (БАБР), ки ба …
ЕБРР инвестировал в Узбекистан рекордную сумму в $690 млн. Как расходуются эти средства?
February 3, 2022
nБазирующаяся в Праге организация «Бэнквотч» (Bankwatch Network) выразила обеспокоенность недостаточностью «прозрачности и диалога» в …
EU bank’s new environmental and social policy not fit for lofty development ambitions
February 2, 2022
The European Investment Bank (EIB) – the financial arm of the EU – has approved a set of new environmental and social standards that, despite some last-minute changes, leave the door open to human rights abuses and biodiversity destruction, warn civil society groups.
