Community Visioning: A guide to Co-creating Clean Energy Futures
September 25, 2025
This guide can support you in designing and running visioning workshops that fit your community. It also offers opportunities to reflect on the role visioning can play in your energy planning.
Dead end ahead: How gas plans are distracting the Western Balkans from the energy transition
September 25, 2025
This briefing provides an update on gas build-out plans in the Western Balkans since March 2023 and finds that they have remained remarkably steady in the last two years, despite increasing risks and financing challenges.
Prosumer paradox: How outdated grids undermine energy poverty efforts in central and eastern Europe
September 5, 2025
Outdated and underinvested grids in the Czech Republic, Poland and Romania are blocking households from fully benefiting from renewable energy programmes and exacerbating energy poverty. This briefing highlights shared challenges, from capacity constra
The billion euro question – What has been achieved with the EU’s Western Balkans Energy Support Package?
July 22, 2025
In November 2022, the European Commission announced a EUR 1 billion Energy Support Package for the Western Balkans to mitigate the immediate effects of the energy crisis and accelerate the energy transition in the region.
Recommendations for the EIB Group: Shaping the 2026–2030 Climate Bank Roadmap
July 15, 2025
The publication outlines the European Investment Bank’s transformation into the EU’s first public international financial institution to stop funding fossil fuels in both developed EU Member States and developing countries and significantly increasing investments in climate action and environmental sustainability.
Adapting the Just Transition Mechanism to the needs of regions in transition
July 11, 2025
This discussion paper synthesises contributions from members of the Just Transition Platform’s ‘Future of Just Transition’ Working Group and other key stakeholders on the potential design of future support for a just transition in Europe.
Letter to the European Commission – EC should maintain a horizontal target for climate and environmental investments in the post-2027 MFF
July 8, 2025
We respectfully call on the Commission to maintain and strengthen a horizontal spending target for climate and the environment in the next EU budget.
Flawed by design: How the Connecting Europe Facility still backs the fossil-fuel industry
July 8, 2025
We expose the role of the Connecting Europe Facility, a little-known EU infrastructure fund, in feeding the hydrogen hoopla.
EU biodiversity credits – barking up the wrong tree
July 7, 2025
This briefing provides an overview of biodiversity credits, offsets and nature markets, EU plans and issues with biodiversity credits.
The EBRD starts its impact reporting journey: How can it deliver meaningful results?
July 7, 2025
In May 2025, the EBRD published its first-ever Impact Report, showcasing the impact of EUR 16.6 billion invested across 584 projects on real-world change. Although shifting the focus from activities to impacts is important, the report falls short in several key areas.
