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A Private Affair: Report shows how development finance institutions benefit the rich in Western countries

11 July, 2014

A new report shows how private western-based companies are benefiting from multilateral development banks’ support while governments and citizens in recipient countries are delegated to the sidelines.

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Video: A mockumentary about biodiversity offsetting

10 July, 2014

Компенсация потерь биоразнообразия в Европейском Союзе станет осуществившейся мечтой для некоторых инвесторов и настоящим кошмаром для природы.

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Video: A mockumentary about biodiversity offsetting

10 July, 2014

Biodiversity offsetting in the European Union would be a dream come true for some investors – and a nightmare for nature.

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Cheap coal for Europe comes at high price for Ukrainian people

9 July, 2014

While Ukraine’s aging coal power infrastructure is causing pollution and energy loss in the country, coal-based electricity is exported at a dumping price to EU countries.

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EBRD in Serbia: Don’t use floods to prop up coal

7 July, 2014

The EBRD should stick to its newly approved Energy Strategy and reject any investments in the Serbian coal sector, argue a group of 7 international NGOs in a letter sent to the bank’s board of directors today. The groups were concerned with recent statements by the EBRD according to which the bank’s regional flood response in the Balkans could include “rehabilitation of (…) damaged power stations and transmission and distribution networks.”

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