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War returnees won discrimination case over re-routing of the EBRD and EIB financed motorway

January 20, 2022 | Read more

Municipal court decision concluded that the Federation of Bosnia and Hercegovina (FBiH) indirectly discriminated against war returnees in Mostar South by choosing a new route of the Corridor Vc motorway without public consultations.

How ADB’s pandemic aid to Uzbekistan was misused, whistleblower silenced

January 19, 2022 | Read more

The Uzbek blogger who first raised these concerns was smeared, beaten, and now faces trial.

NGOs hail Chinese banks’ exit from Bosnia’s controversial Ugljevik III coal plant project

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January 18, 2022 | Read more

Republika of Srpska and China National Electric Engineering Corporation urged to follow.

New EU subsidies rules too lax to rule out support for damaging energy projects

January 13, 2022 | Read more

This month, the new State aid Guidelines for climate, environmental protection and energy 2022 enter force. But with a surplus of loose formulations and flexible criteria, only with close public scrutiny can they support sustainable decarbonisation.

Western Balkan countries need a dedicated fund to ensure a just energy transition – new report

January 11, 2022 | Read more

The earlier a country’s coal-phase out commitment, the higher its share of a Just Transition Fund for the Western Balkan countries, finds a model-based analysis by The Green Tank and CEE Bankwatch Network, published today.

EU bank freezes funding for major Budapest Airport expansion over sweeping violations of environmental norms

January 10, 2022 | Read more

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has suspended the disbursement of a EUR 200 million loan intended to facilitate a dramatic increase in passenger turnover at Hungary’s main international airport following an investigation by the Bank’s Complaints Mechanism that found that no analysis had been done to assess the air pollution, noise pollution and greenhouse gas emissions that the development would generate, in breach of the Bank’s own policy as well as EU environmental law. 

To avoid failures of recovery planning, cohesion funding must offer transparent public engagement

December 22, 2021 | Read more

The European Union’s next long term budget and recovery package is a generational opportunity to tackle the climate crisis and build resilient societies. Yet, a lack of transparency and unwillingness to engage stakeholders, firstly with the recovery plans and now the Cohesion Funds, threatens to imperil a bounceback instead of steering the European Green Deal.

The dark side of EBRD’s Green Cities

December 20, 2021 | Read more

Residents of Almaty’s Kairat district are being suffocated by an illegal depot for diesel buses. They call on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to find a solution before the Bank approves a new loan for green public transport in Kazakhstan’s largest city.

Paving over paradise

December 17, 2021 | Read more

What were once iconic views of Georgia’s beautiful Khada Valley are slowly disappearing.  Now, when you drive up the damaged road towards a narrow, 12-kilometre-long gorge, also known as the ‘valley of 60 towers’, the first thing you see is no longer the famous tower of Iukho village. Instead, a massive, white and blue metal construction site appears. Trucks, roaring and echoing through the mountains, drive back and forth near cultural heritage monuments to provide materials for the Kvesheti-Kobi road towards Russia.

Secret negotiations and fossil fuels plague planning of EU’s just transition away from coal

December 15, 2021 | Read more

The public has largely been kept in the dark by Member State governments in central and eastern Europe about their plans to move EU regions away from a dependency on coal, leaving the door open for other funding schemes to support fossil fuels projects.

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