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Georgian Green Alternative’s Comments on World Bank’s new disclosure policy approach

Policy comments | 24 July, 2009 | Download PDF

Critical comments by Green Alternative, Georgia on the World Bank Approach Paper and Consultation Plan ‘Toward Greater Transparency: Rethinking the World Banks Disclosure Policy’.


Letter to IFIs regarding Georgian hydropower plants

Advocacy letter | 23 July, 2009 | Download PDF

We have received the following responses: On July 29, 2009 from EBRD (pdf here). On August 4, 2009 from EIB (pdf here). On August 27, 2009 from World Bank (pdf here).


Dam Big Impact – The energy sector development in Georgia

Briefing | 23 July, 2009 | Download PDF

The energy policy of the Georgian government supported by a number of IFIs, aims at utilising the hydroenergy potential in the country in order to overcome the existing energy crisis. But effectively, this policy has the potential to cause significant negative impact on the environment, to drastically change the social and demographic situation in Georgia’s mountain areas and to devastate the existing cultural heritage.


Letter to the European Commission regarding the shift of Kresna Gorge motorway’s financing to past 2013

Advocacy letter | 23 July, 2009 | Download PDF

EU financing of the motorway corridor through Kresna Gorge, the most controversial and difficult section of the Struma motorway, has been shifted to the next financial period 2014-2020. While an agreement between NGOs and the Bulgarian government states that the route will be implemented via tunnel(s) in order to preserve the area’s great biodiversity, environmentalists now fear that once other parts of the motorway are completed, the tunnel route might be scrapped by the Bulgarian authorities.


Intergovernmental agreement for Nabucco project

Official document | 14 July, 2009 | Download PDF

The full text is available from the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs website.