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NEW REPORT: EU push for metals mining is a raw deal for people and environment

28 January, 2021

With a fair and digital transformation topping the priorities of the Portuguese EU presidency, the European Green Deal’s push for raw materials should not come at the expense of workers, local communities and nature, warns a new report from CEE Bankwatch Network.

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The public is still paying, hydropower operators are still profiting

27 January, 2021

More than a year after Bankwatch revealed the scale of hydropower subsidies in the Western Balkans, progress in eliminating environmentally harmful aid is still slow.

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Pulling the ‘cotton’ over Uzbek eyes at latest EBRD investment

26 January, 2021

On 27 January 2021 the EBRD expects its Board of Directors to approve a loan of USD 70 million to Indorama Agro for the development of the cotton farming sector in Uzbekistan.

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EIB needs fundamental reforms to back its sustainable finance plans

20 January, 2021

Following today’s annual press conference of the European Investment Bank (EIB), in which the Bank’s President Werner Hoyer, presented its role in supporting the EU’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic downturn in “smart and green” way, Bankwatch’s campaigners commented on the EIB’s sustainability track record and key deficiencies in the Bank’s policies that have been missing in President Hoyer’s statements today.

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‘Needle under a blanket’ at Belgrade waste project

18 January, 2021

Superficial cover up by the EBRD’s accountability mechanism of problems at Belgrade Solid Waste public-private partnership is followed by new request for problem solving.

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