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Pathway to Paris: Can the ADB help Uzbekistan reach carbon neutrality?

4 May, 2021

Rather than helping Uzbekistan realize its renewable potential, the Asian Development Bank’s programs there are undermining global climate goals.

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Uneven progress towards green recovery as EU members submit spending plans to access EUR 672 billion fund

28 April, 2021

Brussels – EU Member States that opened up their spending plans for the EUR 672 billion Recovery and Resilience Facility have made the most progress towards the aims of the European Green Deal, finds a new assessment of eight countries in central and eastern Europe.

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Complaints on controversial motorway project in Bosnia and Herzegovina trigger EBRD inquiry as forced expropriations begin in South Mostar

27 April, 2021

Local residents south of Mostar fear they could be uprooted by a motorway project financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). With forced expropriations underway, the Bank’s accountability mechanism has now announced it will investigate these concerns.

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Left jobless after eviction from Vinca landfill, Roma begin negotiations with Belgrade after complaint to the EBRD

22 April, 2021

The EBRD’s accountability mechanism has launched a problem-solving initiative to negotiate issues of affordable housing, access to education and income generation for the Roma families that were evicted from the Vinča landfill. In the two years since the eviction, these issues were not addressed, so the EBRD’s mediators will facilitate a problem-solving process between this vulnerable group and the city of Belgrade.

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Scientific studies reveal river ‘sickness’ from small hydropower plants in Serbia

21 April, 2021

Projects financed by the EIB through secretive intermediary banks destroy 10 km of supposedly protected rivers for only 2 MW of energy.

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