Avoiding the death of LIFE: Why Europe’s flagship environmental programme must remain part of the next EU budget
March 24, 2025
The LIFE programme, a proven and effective resource for financing biodiversity, is widely regarded as one of the EU’s best performing funds.
Preparing municipalities for the future: A guide to decarbonisation solutions
March 18, 2025
This guide provides an overview of possible funding streams and necessary steps to secure decarbonisation solutions for municipalities.
Reforming with purpose: A checklist of reforms and investments for the EU’s national social climate plans
March 12, 2025
National social climate plans are a critical component of the EU’s efforts to ensure a fair and equitable transition to climate neutrality, helping to counterbalance the adverse impacts of the EU’s second Emissions Trading System on the most vulnerable.
Ringing the bell for gender equality and diversity: European public banks must do more for women’s rights and economic empowerment
March 7, 2025
In the current age of ‘competent white men’, ‘traditional family values’ and the EU’s simplified sustainable finance regulations, what lies in store for the inclusion and equality policies of Europe’s public development banks?
Open letter from civil society to the EU on the Ukraine Facility
February 28, 2025
This joint letter from Ukrainian and European civil society organisations urges the EU to improve the Ukraine Facility by enhancing transparency, environmental safeguards, civil society participation, and municipal funding. These recommendations aim to
Romania: Key Black Sea gas pipeline goes on trial
February 27, 2025
‘Gas hub’ is Europe’s buzzword du jour, and the Romanian government certainly has high ambitions. With shiny new pipelines and a massive drilling rig in the Black Sea, Bucharest is working hard to capitalise on its neighbours’ fossil gas addiction – and to hell with the EU’s climate commitments. Even due process has been little more than an afterthought. Until this week.
Greening the EU budget: why climate mainstreaming needs reform
February 26, 2025
CEE Bankwatch Network (2024) analysed the practical implementation of the DNSH principle in the RRF using six case studies. In some cases, the simplified procedure relied solely on uncritically accepting the countries’ declarations.
Hungary’s fracking shame: Green groups challenge expansion of controversial Corvinus project
February 13, 2025
Shale gas extraction, or fracking, is so infamous for its environmental impacts that it is banned in multiple European countries. In Hungary, however, the authorities are looking to expand a fracking project near the border with Romania, despite it already worsening the climate crisis and threatening local agriculture. Campaigners are challenging these risky plans.
Towards Green Cohesion seminar – Key demands
February 4, 2025
This document presents key recommendations for shaping the future of the EU’s post-2027 cohesion policy.
EIB Group Complaints Mechanism ineffective in addressing complaints submitted in relation to the Budapest Airport expansion project
January 31, 2025
In this case study, we lay bare inefficiencies of the EIB and EBRD grievance mechanisms using a real-life example – the Budapest Airport Expansion Project – and make recommendations for the next review of the EIB Group Complaints Mechanism Policy.
