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Hundreds to protest against ArcelorMittal in Bosnia and Herzegovina

10 February, 2011

Hundreds of people are expected to attend a protest against illegal levels of air pollution from the local ArcelorMittal steelmill this Friday afternoon. The action has been organized through social media and is supported by local NGOs Dosta! and Zenica Eko-Forum.

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CEE countries must demand binding targets for energy efficiency, say NGOs

3 February, 2011

Ahead of Friday’s European Council on Energy, CEE Bankwatch Network is urging political will from both the Hungarian EU Presidency and other central and eastern European heads of state to ensure binding targets for improving energy efficiency by 20 percent by the year 2020 if the bloc is to play its part in meeting climate targets under the Europe 2020 strategy.

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Financial intermediaries must not prevent transparency at the EBRD

1 February, 2011

On the occasion of a revision of the EBRD’s public information policy, Bankwatch points out the lack of information when it comes to financial intermediaries.

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New EU resource flagship must steer energy savings and resource potential for central and eastern Europe

27 January, 2011

Reacting to yesterday’s communication by the European Commission of its ‘resource-efficient Europe – flagship initiative under the Europe 2020 strategy’, CEE Bankwatch Network is welcoming the agenda set by Brussels to ensure the sustainable use of raw materials, their extraction and processing but warns that this rhetoric must translate into action if the EU and particularly new Member States are to meet ambitious energy and climate change objectives.

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Tree adoptions lead to more arrests in Khimki Forest

17 January, 2011

Despite the Russian government’s controversial decision to go ahead with the Moscow St. Petersburg motorway’s original routing through Khimki Forest, environmental activists have not given up their struggle to save the last remaining natural area in a densely populated region.

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