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Kosovo’s new law on pollution control risks muddying the waters

13 July, 2022

Kosovo’s parliament is currently scrutinizing a new law on integrated pollution prevention and control. Its aim is positive – to tighten Kosovo’s standards. But as written now, it risks doing the opposite.

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The real cost of hydropower plants in Central Asia and the Caucasus

12 July, 2022

International financial institutions’ support for hydropower in Central Asia and Caucasus is fuel for environmental damage and human rights violations.

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The Shared Green Deal project begins work on people-centered climate neutrality by 2050

12 July, 2022

Bankwatch is a partner in the new Shared Green Deal project that will use innovative social experiments to support the objectives of the European Green Deal, involving local communities across Europe.

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Bosnia’s planned Tuzla 7 lignite plant on the rocks after state aid U-turn

6 July, 2022

The future of the planned 450 MW Tuzla 7 lignite plant in Bosnia and Herzegovina is again in doubt after the country’s State Aid Council revoked its decision to approve a public guarantee for a EUR 614 million loan from China Eximbank last week, four years after the Council’s initial clearance.

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It’s time to put an end to EU funding of fossil gas

27 June, 2022

While EU households and industry face months without heating, exorbitant energy bills and insecurity, EU funds are driving an increase in the demand for gas in the region, a Bankwatch analysis of Modernisation Fund spending shows.

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