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Questionable transition impact of the Ombla and Boskov Most hydropower plants

Advocacy letter | 4 November, 2011 | Download PDF

The EBRD has a specific mandate to promote transition to a market economy and to ensure environmental sustainability in all its operations. Additionally to the unacceptable environmental impacts of the hydropower plant projects Ombla (Croatia) and Boskov Most (Macedonia), both projects do not comply with the EBRD’s mission. We believe the bank should not support them.

Complaint to European Commission: Public procurement procedure for the Sostanj lignite power plant

Official document | 2 November, 2011 | Download PDF

Comments and proposals on the EBRD’s project level transition indicators

Policy comments | 1 November, 2011 | Download PDF

As pointed out in our publication Are We Nearly There Yet? Dilemmas of Transition After 20 Years of the EBRD’s Operations (pdf), environmental and social sustainability has not been as strong a focus for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development as it should be. How the EBRD measures it’s success can be seen as one part of the explanation. It’s transition indicators – also at project level – are therefore an important aspect when assessing the bank’s performance.

Letter to EBRD: Concerns regarding the Boskov Most Hydro Power Plant, Macedonia

Advocacy letter | 28 October, 2011 | Download PDF

A coalition of more than 30 Macedonian and international NGOs are calling on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) not to finance the Boskov Most hydro power plant in north-western Macedonia. The project would seriously damage Mavrovo national park, the largest in the country and a potential Natura 2000 site.

Open letter requesting EBRD to withdraw from the Ombla hydroelectric plant project

Advocacy letter | 26 October, 2011 | Download PDF

The Ombla hydropower plant is planned to be built in a cave in Croatia that is part of a proposed Natura 2000 site, but the environmental, economic and social impacts have only insufficiently been assessed by the project promoters. More than 30 Croatian and international civil society organisations therefore urged the EBRD to not approve a loan for the project.