What you need to know about the Green City Action Plan but your municipality won’t tell you
Publication | 13 January, 2022A step-by-step guide on what the Green City Action Plan is, why citizen participation is important for improving the future of cities, and how residents can participate.
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The dark side of EBRD’s Green Cities
Blog entry | 20 December, 2021Residents of Almaty’s Kairat district are being suffocated by an illegal depot for diesel buses. They call on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to find a solution before the Bank approves a new loan for green public transport in Kazakhstan’s largest city.
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Position Paper on the Serbia Solid Waste National Programme
Publication | 15 December, 2021This position paper, prepared by the CEE Bankwatch Network and based on research conducted by Springloop Cooperative, U.A. and Bankwatch member group CEKOR, Serbia, expresses concern about the Serbia Solid Waste National Programme, a multi-site EUR 150 million project co-financed 50:50 by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the French Development Agency. The paper discusses the various risks associated with approving the project without first ensuring that detailed social and environmental assessments are carried out, and it calls on the Bank to condition the project on guarantees that the rights and livelihoods of the most vulnerable and marginalized affected people will be protected.
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A letter to the EBRD on the Alexandria Refinery in Egypt and Mytilineos Gas Power Plant in Greece
Publication | 23 November, 2021This letter voices Bankwatch’s concerns about the Alexandria Refinery in Egypt and Mytilineos Gas Power Plant in Greece projects that are scheduled for Board Approval on the 24th of November 2021. We urge the Board of Directors not to support these pro
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At Bulgarian coal mine, a climate and human rights crisis unfolds
Blog entry | 18 November, 2021People abandoned at the edge of Bulgaria’s largest coal basin expect accountability from the multilateral development bank that financed the mine expansion.
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Want to make cities climate neutral? Engage residents!
Blog entry | 11 November, 2021As multilateral development banks and national governments in Glasgow debate how cities should reach climate neutrality, they should not overlook the role of effective citizen participation in shaping cities’ future. Activists from Kyiv who successfully fought to protect unique wetlands are an example of how important it is to involve citizens in creating a better future.
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EBRD Accountability Mechanism starts a compliance assessment of MHP projects
Blog entry | 10 November, 2021The review is an independent investigation aimed to determine if the Bank has complied with its environmental and social policies in relation to the MHP projects
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How to ensure public control over projects funded by development banks in non-democratic regimes
Blog entry | 5 July, 2021In a series of video tutorials, we demonstrate tools civil society organisations and activists from Uzbekistan can use to have a say about projects supported by development banks that may affect their communities and the environment.
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European development bank’s new fossil fuels pledge falls short of aligning with the Paris Agreement
Press release | 2 July, 2021The governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), representing 69 shareholder governments as well as the EU and the European Investment Bank, decided yesterday the Bank will decrease its support for the fossil fuels industry.
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Civil society wishes on the EBRD’s 30th birthday: shut the fossil fuels party
Blog entry | 29 June, 2021People around the world are already feeling the brunt of the climate crisis on an almost daily basis. Most governments accept we are in the midst of a global climate crisis, including those controlling the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). And yet, Bankwatch’s recent analysis shows that during 2019-2020, the EBRD has awarded the fossil fuels industry more than USD 2 million every day on average. Two million dollars. Every single day.
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