Is there room for informal waste pickers in Serbia’s new waste management system?
Blog entry | 10 March, 2022As Serbia modernises its waste collection, the people who keep the country’s cities clean and green should not be left behind.
Read moreTowards a people-powered, green transformation in Almaty
Blog entry | 16 February, 2022The EBRD must move away from its carbon tunnel vision and widen its perspective on all impacts of climate investments in cities
Read moreNo resolution for Ukrainian villagers after three years of negotiations with agro-giant MHP
Blog entry | 7 February, 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.
Read moreWar returnees won discrimination case over re-routing of the EBRD and EIB financed motorway
Blog entry | 20 January, 2022Municipal court decision concluded that the Federation of Bosnia and Hercegovina (FBiH) indirectly discriminated against war returnees in Mostar South by choosing a new route of the Corridor Vc motorway without public consultations.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreAt 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.
Read moreWant 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.
Read moreEBRD 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
Read moreHow 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.
Read moreEuropean 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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