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Protests spread in Western Balkans along with air pollution

February 19, 2018 | Read more

Community organisations across the region are fed up with worsening air quality and are taking their grievances to the streets

Bulgaria’s EU presidency off to rocky start, as protests highlight EU funds for nature destruction

February 19, 2018 | Read more

Unwanted limelight shines on Bulgaria as country plows ahead with Cohesion funds for the destruction of the Pirin National Park

Leaving Paris, the European Investment Bank steps on the gas

Black pipes for the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline are lying in a fenced area.

February 12, 2018 | Read more

Distancing itself from the EU’s climate commitments enshrined in the Paris Agreement, the European Investment Bank has effectively taken a U-turn in its energy lending last week when it approved a record loan for the Trans Adriatic Pipeline.

Controversial gas pipeline gets EUR 1.5 billion in public money amid massive climate risk

A black pipe in front of a foggy panorama.

February 6, 2018 | Read more

CEE Bankwatch Network, Counter Balance, Friends of the Earth Europe, 350.org Press release For immediate release Prague, Brussels –– The European Investment Bank (EIB) voted today to hand out one of Europe’s largest ever loans to one of the EU’s larges

[Campaign update] More EBRD cash for Georgia dams should be cautionary tale for other development banks

February 5, 2018 | Read more

The European Investment Bank is set to decide on the billion dollar Nenskra dam project during its board meeting today.

As pollution blankets Pristina, so do protests

January 31, 2018 | Read more

Hundreds of people fed up of breathing polluted air have joined a protest in Pristina, Kosovo earlier today.

New study shutters EU claims on climate benefits from flagship energy project

January 30, 2018 | Read more

The controversial Southern Gas Corridor, the EU’s flagship energy project, could be as emissions-intensive as coal power or even more, a new study reveals.

The renovation will be televised: Latvia’s energy efficiency programme for multi-apartment buildings

January 23, 2018 | Read more

A pressing challenge in post-Soviet cities and towns is the conversion of modernist planning into a contemporary and sustainable built environment.

A second coal fired power plant for the Tajik capital

January 17, 2018 | Read more

Tajikistan has long suffered from serious energy shortages, but is a new coal power plant really the answer?

Gacko: if only the laws were as strong as the air pollution

January 16, 2018 | Read more

Gacko, Bosnia-Herzegovina, is home to a coal power plant and an open cast mine and it has a serious smog problem. But you wouldn’t know it from official measurements because the local air quality rules are uniquely lax, and there are no publicly available, official measurements.

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