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Ahead of Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank meeting in Luxembourg, over 89 000 petition bank to drop Nenskra dam project in Georgia

12 July, 2019

Luxembourg, Prague, Tbilisi – Representatives from the “Stop Nenskra” campaign [1] showed up in Luxembourg at the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) annual meeting on July 12th and delivered a petition to the international development banks calling them on not to finance the Nenskra hydropower plant project [2] in Svaneti, Georgia.

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Slovak government approves Just Transition plan for Upper Nitra

3 July, 2019

The Slovak government is today approving a plan for Upper Nitra’s transition away from coal, which was created based on inputs from the local community.

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North Macedonia: Complaint challenges unfair subsidy advantages for hydropower

1 July, 2019

North Macedonia’s renewable energy incentives scheme unfairly advantages small hydropower plants over other energy sources, shows a complaint submitted to the Energy Community [1] today by environmental groups Eko-Svest and CEE Bankwatch Network.

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Independent data highlights air pollution crisis in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina

25 June, 2019

Dust pollution in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, has been twice the legal limit on two thirds of monitored days in 2018 and caused over one hundred premature deaths in adults during the year, according to independent new data published today in the report Lifting the Smog [1] by CEE Bankwatch Network, the Health and Environment Alliance – HEAL and the Center for Ecology and Energy in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Bankwatch statement on the EU’s 2050 climate neutrality goal and central and eastern European country positions

20 June, 2019

“With Germany now backing the EU’s 2050 carbon neutrality goal, all eyes are on Poland and other countries of central and eastern Europe that have to date refused to back this target because of their reliance on coal.

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