Updates on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

IFI Transparency and the Aarhus Convention

Members of the Global Transparency Initiative (GTI) prepared this paper to examine implementation of the Transparency Charter for International Financial Institutions from the perspective of the Aarhus Convention.

Western high speed diameter non-technical project summary

Position statement of Kazakh and Kyrgyz NGOs on a potential EBRD-financed road between Uzunagash and Balykchi

Karaganda EcoMuseum presentation on the Mittal Steel health and safety project

The Khudoni dam: a necessary solution to the Georgian energy crisis?

This report questions whether the solution for the troubled Georgian energy sector is the Khudoni Dam, a project which has already received World Bank grants for feasibility studies. The report also highlights the likely severe negative impacts of the dam construction on people in Georgia.

Bankwatch Mail 33

In this issue: Too much carbon in EU funding – Commission rubber stamps 30 percent rise in Polish GHGs * EIB approves Bujagali Dam in Uganda despite major flaws * Environmental and social safeguards – time to get serious at the EIB * Poland facing trial in European Court of Justice over Via Baltica * Dos and donts – how the EIB can avoid development pitfalls * When is corruption not corruption? Ask the EIB * The memory hole

Indicative examples on the Sakhalin II pipeline: two site studies in 2007

Updated: concerns regarding the project content of the proposed waste-to-energy incinerator in Zagreb, Croatia

Photographic presentation of ongoing mud flows and landslides near the Krinka river, Sakhalin Island

NGO letter in opposition to ABN Amro Nomination for Sustainable Bank of the Year