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From Enver Hoxha to the EBRD (and back) – hydropower in Albania

7 June, 2017

The EBRD and Societe Generale are now sponsoring a mass-scale construction project across Albania. Over 300 hydropower plants in various stages of development are posing real threats to the mountainous country’s nature and people. They should avoid repeating Ever Hoxha’s concrete folly.

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The Balkans may become the achilles heel of EU-China climate leadership

1 June, 2017

The European Union’s and China’s joint commitment to climate action is tarnished by Chinese support for and the EU’s neglect of coal projects in the Balkans, as a new briefing explains. But it is still not too late to change course.

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Locals oppose dam that is set to endanger critical fish habitat in Bosnia-Herzegovina

30 May, 2017

We are passing through the canyon of the river Vrbas, in north-west Bosnia-Herzegovina. I am looking through a car window, mouth wide open in awe. While I look up to the rocky, edgy peaks hundreds of meters above and down to the heavenly blue river, I

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The Runcurel expropriations, Europe’s second most harmful subsidy

22 May, 2017

The Romanian Government has been named and shamed today in a public fossil fuel subsidies awards ceremony in Brussels for fostering land expropriations required for expanding a coal mine, displacing families and destroying nature.

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How Europe’s bank spends cash for climate undermines Paris commitments

22 May, 2017

An 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.

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