Green Climate Fund’s preference for big players weakens transparency
Blog entry | 31 October, 2017The 18th meeting of the Green Climate Fund in the beginning of October confirmed again that big institutions are getting the biggest share of finances. This time it was the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development who left its mark.
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Major European loan to controversial Azerbaijani gas pipeline risks fuelling corruption, human rights abuse and climate change
Press release | 18 October, 2017A USD 500 million loan approved today by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for the construction of the Trans Anatolian Pipeline is set to benefit, among others, state-owned companies in Azerbaijan and Turkey.
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Nenskra HPP: the concerns of worried locals fall on deaf ears of project developers
Blog entry | 12 October, 2017In an interview, a teacher from Chuberi in the Svaneti mountains gave us an impression of how the project developers of the planned Nenskra dam engage with locals.
Read moreMHP: ‘Business as usual’ while communities suffer
Publication | 29 September, 2017The massive loans by public banks for Ukraine’s monopolist poultry producer MHP have not brought the company’s performance and culture in line with the relevant EU and EBRD standards. Rural communities say that if it continues with ‘business as usual’, they face more violence and suppression.
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Fossil fuel subsidies by European public banks are underwriting climate change
Blog entry | 28 September, 2017European public banks who have repeatedly voiced their commitment to tackling the climate crisis and ‘greening’ their investment portfolios continue to dole out cash for fossil fuels extraction, distribution and consumption.
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Ukrainian civil society resists efforts to be co-opted by big agro
Blog entry | 20 September, 2017The controversial Ukrainian agribusiness giant Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP) tries to handle community relations by putting publicity spin on the outcomes of a long overdue discussion with civil society.
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Georgia’s highlanders against hydropower
Blog entry | 20 September, 2017As the Georgian government moves ahead with its plans for increasing the country’s hydropower capacity, local communities are being sidelined in the process of compensation payments.
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[Campaign update] EBRD confirms negative impacts of Albanian hydropower plants on people and the environment
Blog entry | 20 September, 2017Recent hydropower projects in Albania exemplify the need for more climate-resilient energy sources than water. After a summer marked by drought, also the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development found flaws in the projects in helped finance.
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Systematic shortcomings will deprive people affected by Georgian dam of compensation
Blog entry | 11 September, 2017An assessment of livelihoods of people to be affected by the Nenskra hydropower plant in Georgia is rigged with mistakes that will lead to significant losses for locals.
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Failing local communities – the Land Assessment and Livelihoods Restoration Plan for the Nenskra dam
Publication | 11 September, 2017The Land Assessment and Livelihoods Restoration Plan for people to be affected by the Nenskra hydropower plant in Georgia is rigged with mistakes that will lead to significant losses for locals.
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