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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Azerbaijan’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.
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The 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.
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EU 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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How Europe’s bank spends cash for climate undermines Paris commitments
Press release | 22 May, 2017An uneven investment strategy across the EU’s 28 Member States and a lack of added value by one of its main financial tools means that the EIB puts the EU at risk of not meeting its climate targets under the Paris Agreement, according to a new briefing from Counter Balance and CEE Bankwatch Network.
Read moreThe winners and losers of climate action at the European Investment Bank
Publication | 18 May, 2017This analysis of the bank’s climate action is based on the climate action database disclosed by the EIB. The database includes projects which were signed in 2016 and classified in line with the methodology approved by the bank in its Climate Strategy.
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Investment Plan for Europe more climate friendly, but European Parliament shows little ambition
Press release | 16 May, 2017Today in Strasburg, the European Parliament lead committees have brought the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) closer to compliance with the Paris Climate Agreement. However, they have once again fallen short of eliminating fossil fuel subsidies, which stand in the way of climate action.
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Italian authorities overrun communities in a bid to enable Europe’s dash for gas
Press release | 8 May, 2017In a last minute attempt to force facts on the ground, the Italian authorities have enabled the removal of a group of olive trees to make room for a future construction site of the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), despite an earlier agreement between the company and local institutions. Nevertheless, the company has not been able to clear the site by the official deadline and the residents have vowed to step up their protest against the largest energy project the EU is currently pursuing.
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National and local levels play secondary role in Green Climate Fund, European Investment Bank project illustrates
Blog entry | 25 April, 2017The use of international financial institutions to manage projects within the Green Climate Fund framework has been criticised as too far removed from communities and those affected by the investments. Recently approved projects, the biggest of them administered by the European Investment Bank confirm this view, despite willingness to include civil society.
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