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Request for EBRD evaluation of ArcelorMittal investments addressed to Board of Directors

Advocacy letter | 28 December, 2008 | Download PDF

Letter requesting the EBRD to undertake a thorough evaluation of the bank’s investments in “Arcelor Mittal” and its predecessors since 2001. On January 14, 2009 EBRD responded to our request. Download it as pdf here.

Request for EBRD evaluation of ArcelorMittal investments addressed to Evaluation and Environment Department

Advocacy letter | 28 December, 2008 | Download PDF

On January 14, 2009 EBRD responded to our request. Download the response as pdf here.

EBRD Independent Recourse Mechanism review – Project Complaint Mechanism Rules of Procedure

Official document | 17 December, 2008 | Download PDF

Pumped storage plants are not green investments

Briefing | 10 December, 2008 | Download PDF

In November 2008, the National Environmental Investment Agency of Ukraine decided to direct money from the International Greenhouse Gases (GHG) Emissions Trading into the construction of pumped storage plants (PSPs). Yet PSPs totally contradict the idea, as they do not lead to the decrease of carbon emissions and will harm the environment.

South-east Europe energy policies

Briefing | 8 December, 2008 | Download PDF

South-east Europe (SEE) is at the hub of several contradictory factors influencing the development of its energy systems. On one hand, it is endowed with plentiful sources of renewable energy and has vast potential for increasing energy efficiency. On the other its legacy of communist-era power plants and inefficient transmission and distribution systems means that electricity generation continues to be associated with large, centralised, highly polluting facilities, or in some cases – particularly Albania – ageing and unreliable large hydropower plants.