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South Ukraine Transmission Project – EBRD AGM Issue Paper

Briefing | 10 May, 2010 | Download PDF

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is considering lending EUR 175 million to the National Energy Company of Ukraine, Ukrenergo, for implementing the South Ukraine Transmission Project. An equal amount of financing was approved by the EIB in October 2009. The project foresees construction of a new 750 kV power transmission line, two 330kV double circuit diversions, and modernisation of an existing 330/220/110 kV substation.

Civil society statement on energy access and public financing of fossil fuels

Policy comments | 6 May, 2010 | Download PDF

The statement, signed by 48 civil society organisations calls on international financial institutions to stop using public resources to subsidize the fossil fuel industry. These subsidies fuel overconsumption in wealthy countries, benefit an already highly profitable and well-established industry, and exacerbate many of the most urgent problems facing humanity today, not the least of which is climate change.

Letter to EIB Sustainable Development Unit addressing deficiencies in the Hungarian scoping procedure for the Nabucco gas pipeline’s Environmental Impact Assessment

Advocacy letter | 5 May, 2010 | Download PDF

Letter to EBRD regarding the Sava river crossing, a new resettlement project in Serbia

Advocacy letter | 4 May, 2010 | Download PDF

Read more on the communities at the Sava river crossing also on our blog

Letter to EBRD president Thomas Mirow regarding the loan approval for the D1 motorway Phase 1, Slovakia

Advocacy letter | 29 April, 2010 | Download PDF