MHP corporate support and biogas loans – an update from the field
June 19, 2018
With over half a billion euros from the EBRD and the IFC, the leading Ukrainian agribusiness giant has grown into a near monopolist in poultry production. The company’s poor track record of stakeholder engagement and accountability towards impacted vi
Submission to the EBRD strategy for Uzbekistan
June 19, 2018
It is important that the EBRD clearly indicates to the Uzbekistan government the need to have progress towards meeting those benchmarks from over 15 years ago that remain relevant to this day. We suggest that the Country Strategy will envisage an early
Revealed: EIB supporting major Israeli environmental offender
June 18, 2018
In the Israeli Environmental Protection Ministry’s annual ranking, Israel Chemicals has been topping the lists of corporate environmental offenders. For the EIB, the company has “sound environmental policy” which justifies a quarter of billion euros for supporting R&D of specialty chemicals. Ahead of the first anniversary of the Ashalim spill, which originated from an ICL subsidiary’s chemicals plant, a new Bankwatch analysis questions the EIB’s engagement with the company.
The cost of turning a blind eye: EIB lending to Israel’s ICL
June 18, 2018
The toxic wastewater spill from the Rotem Amfert plant that caused a severe environmental disaster in Ashalim Stream, Israel, in late June 2017 joins a long list of pollution events the company has been responsible for through the years. In fact, even
With EU funds in Romania, where there is a will, there is a way
June 18, 2018
This story represents one of the few successful examples in Romania but should serve as an inspiration for all the mayors and representatives of the Romanian authorities. Nobody says it’s going to be a smooth sailing when dealing with accessing European funds, but it is important to have well-prepared personnel, a vision for sustainable development and last, but not least, a desire to make positive changes in your community.
At 60, EU public bank needs fundamental reform – civil society groups
June 18, 2018
The European Investment Bank (EIB) needs to end its investment in fossil fuels and boost support for sustainable energy, reinforce its public accountability, and prioritise human rights, a group of 21 European NGOs write in a letter to EU finance ministers.
Hydropower threatens Balkan rivers, campaigners say
June 17, 2018
Over the next few years, 3,000 hydropower plants could be built in the Balkan region. Environmentalists say the plans threaten rivers from Slovenia to Albania, considered to be some of the last wild rivers in Europe. Source: Hydropower threatens Balkan
The ‘deconstruction’ of the most ambitious project of the EU, the ‘Southern Gas Corridor’
June 12, 2018
There is nothing that will change except from the supplier country since instead of Russia Europe will now Source: The ‘deconstruction’ of the most ambitious project of the EU, the ‘Southern Gas Corridor’
Gasdotto Tap, cosa cambierà, o non cambierà, con il nuovo governo
June 7, 2018
Il neoministro dell’Ambiente, Sergio Costa, ha bollato come “inutile” il corridoio Sud, che dovrebbe trasportare 10 miliardi di metri cubi di nuovo gas in Italia, sposando la tesi contraria a quella del precedente governo, che invece riteneva quest’ope
Charges brought against development banks over half a billion euros for Ukraine’s largest agribusiness firm
June 5, 2018
Prague, Kyiv, San Francisco – Three communities in the central Ukraine region of Vinnytsia have filed formal grievances at the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, alleging that the industrial poultry giant Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP) has failed to ensure basic transparency regarding the environmental and health impacts at its ‘largest poultry farm in Europe’. [1]
