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Some Arab CSO aspirations and concerns for the EBRD annual meeting

Bankwatch Mail | 14 May, 2015 | Download PDF

The economic model with which the EBRD operates often fails to understand and respond to the development challenges of Arab countries.


Georgia’s hydropower revolution far from rosy for communities, the environment and the economy

Bankwatch Mail | 14 May, 2015 | Download PDF

For Shuakhevi as with other large dams recently built or planned in Georgia, it all adds up for western planners and financiers. The final bill for the Georgian population and environment, though, is still a long way from being finalised.


#SaveGeorgianNaturefromEBRDfinancedDams

Bankwatch Mail | 14 May, 2015 | Download PDF

In the run-up to this year’s annual meeting in Tbilisi, the EBRD has taken to social media, via the hashtag #Georgia15, to invite Twitter users to share “beautiful photos of Georgia with a global audience”.


Pressure mounts on EBRD to quit Macedonian dam folly

Bankwatch Mail | 14 May, 2015 | Download PDF

Macedonia’s Mavrovo national park is the largest and richest national park in the country and home to the critically endangered Balkan Lynx. The Macedonian government, however, has plans to also make Mavrovo the home for two large and around 20 small hydro power plants. Could the EBRD cancel its involvement in one of the projects?


Where will all that power go? New study assesses extravagant energy ambitions in the western Balkans

Bankwatch Mail | 14 May, 2015 | Download PDF

Western Balkan countries have ambitious plans to increase their electricity generation over the next years. But what will happen if they all become a regional energy hub? Will there be a demand for all the available electricity?