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New beginnings at 30: can the EBRD leave behind fossil gas to become a bank fit for our future?

Briefing | 16 June, 2021 | Download PDF

This report analyses the EBRD’s energy-related operations across the first two years of the Bank’s new Energy Sector Strategy (ESS) (2019-2020). This initial period of the ESS’s implementation is also compared to the previous ESS implementation period


Problematic measures to be addressed during the ongoing assessment of Recovery and Resilience Plans

Briefing | 9 June, 2021 | Download PDF

This briefing provides a compilation of assessments of recovery plans submitted to the Recovery and Resilience Facility. The document was prepared in cooperation with Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, EuroNatur and the European Environmental Bureau


Joint CSO letter on the TEN-E regulation: Stop the expansion of fossil gas

Advocacy letter | 1 June, 2021 | Download PDF

This advocacy letter aims to express civil society organisations’ concerns on the reintroduction of fossil gas in the revised trans-European infrastructure energy (TEN-E) regulation.  Bankwatch and 53 other CSOs ask governments to vote against the incl


The role of gas in the recovery and resilience plans

Briefing | 31 May, 2021 | Download PDF

This briefing analyses plans for gas investments in the recovery plans of eight central and eastern European countries (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania and Slovakia). It reveals that most contain gas investments,


Heating in the Western Balkans. Overview and recommendations for clean solutions

Study | 27 May, 2021 | Download PDF

This report makes the case for the urgent need to decarbonise heating in the Western Balkans. Heating in the region is still predominantly reliant on fossil fuels and other unsustainable heating sources, like wood biomass burnt in inefficient stoves. T