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Funding Europe’s Future: How Cohesion Policy 2014-2020 can deliver for Europe’s people and environment

Study | 24 October, 2011 | Download PDF

The European Commission’s Cohesion Policy regulations fail to earmark sufficient money for green spending in areas such as energy efficiency of buildings, sustainable transport, nature protection or waste management. Next year, the European Council and European Parliament can amend the regulation texts for the better. Our detailed recommendations for EU regional funds 2014-2020 can help them in their task by outlining which types of spending need to be excluded and which encouraged in order to tackle climate change, stop biodiversity loss and reverse resource-overconsumption while modernising our economies.


Story of an artists. Leaflet against EU support for the Sostanj lignite power plant in Slovenia

Leaflet | 19 October, 2011 | Download PDF

Upset by Slovenia’s plans to build a huge lignite power plant unit in Sostanj, Slovenian artist Marko Kumer-Murc and Slovene environmentalists from Focus brought their protest to Brussels. The leaflet tells Marko’s story and offers a quick round-up of Sostanj and other coal power plants that are supported by international financial institutions.


Letter to EBRD: Don’t support gold exploration in UNESCO site in Russia

Advocacy letter | 5 October, 2011 | Download PDF

In August 2011, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) announced that it was acquiring a stake in GV Gold, one of Russia’s top gold producers, stressing the company’s willingness to meet the Bank’s environmental and social requirements. A GV Gold subsidiary, however, carries out prospecting and plans to mine gold on a territory that is located in its entirety in a UNESCO World Natural Heritage property.


Complaint to European Commission: Inadequate assessment of CCS readiness for Sostanj lignite power plant project

Official document | 3 October, 2011 | Download PDF

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The EBRD and coal. Dirty business unnoticed.

Briefing | 3 October, 2011 | Download PDF

Despite numerous international calls for the discontinuation of public support for fossil fuels in the face of climate change, the EBRD continues to finance the dirtiest among them, coal. What is more, the bank plans to expand its activities in this field. CEE Bankwatch Network urges the EBRD to phase out any support for coal industry making it more competitive and disadvantaging sustainable energy.


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