New report: Juncker Plan backs billions in fossil fuels and carbon-heavy infrastructure
Press release | 14 November, 2017The European Union is set to continue a funding tool that in last two years has lent billions of euros for fossil fuels projects.
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Blog entry | 1 November, 2017The anti fossil fuels movement 350.org calls for cutting off the funding to new gas infrastructure for Europe – namely for the ‘carbon bomb’ that is the Southern Gas Corridor.
Read moreThe great gas lock-in – industry lobbying is behind the EU push for new gas infrastructure
Blog entry | 31 October, 2017A new report from Corporate Europe Observatory shows why the fire-power of the gas industry makes it a powerful and effective lobbying force in Brussels and national capitals. Meanwhile, public interest groups have a fraction of the resources and access.
Read moreNenskra 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 moreFossil 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.
Read moreGeorgia’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.
Read moreSystematic 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.
Read moreAzerbaijan’s Laundromat scandal raises concerns over the EU’s growing business ties with the authoritarian regime
Press release | 6 September, 2017Revelations about the Azerbaijani Laundromat corruption scheme raise serious concerns over the EU’s intensifying relationship with the government in Baku and its readiness to turn a blind eye to the country’s human rights abuses and offer loans of millions of euros to a massive gas infrastructure project that would fill the pockets of the Azerbaijani corrupted elite.
Read moreThe true colours of Svaneti – A festival in the stunning Georgian mountains
Blog entry | 30 August, 2017Despite the remote location, the culture festival We Are Svaneti brought together people from three continents and helped young Svans to become aware of their communities’ unique traditions.
Read moreEU urged to honour Paris Agreement, withdraw support for gas mega-pipeline
Press release | 3 July, 2017In an open letter released today, climate scientists, indigenous leaders, environmental and social justice groups, actors and artists call on the European Union to immediately withdraw its support for a gas mega-pipeline that would ‘destroy Europe’s climate targets’.
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