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Barriers and project criteria for the Upper Nitra region transition process

Briefing | 5 March, 2019 | Download PDF

This study serves as an invitation and starting point for further discussions and collaboration on just transition in the Upper Nitra region of Slovakia. A just transformation means that while transitioning from coal, the projects of big corporations w


Chronic coal pollution

Study | 28 February, 2019 | Download PDF

In the Western Balkans there are 16 outdated coal power plants that threaten public health by producing enormous amounts of air pollution, impacting people in the region, the EU and beyond. Every year they cause 3,000 premature deaths, 8,000 cases of b


The EBRD Country Strategy for Azerbaijan

Advocacy letter | 26 February, 2019 | Download PDF

As the EBRD reviews its Country Strategy for Azerbaijan, Civil society organisations approached the Board of Directors to share their concerns about the situation in the country and asked the Bank to be clear that funding should be linked to the perfor


Failure of the European Investment Bank to ensure proper climate impact assessment for TAP/TANAP

Briefing | 4 February, 2019 | Download PDF

In a complaint lodged today with the European Investment Bank (EIB), civil society groups protest that the bank systematically underestimated the climate footprint of a fossil fuel mega project, the Southern Gas Corridor, which helped justify providing


EU funds maladministration complaint to the European Ombudsman

Official document | 31 January, 2019 | Download PDF

The matter of concern is the use of EU Cohesion funds for deterioration of the conservation and integrity of habitats and species in Kresna gorge (Bulgaria) protected by EU law and International Conventions. The EC did not prevent and ensure that the S