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EIB’s clean energy credentials continue to be compromised, policy review offers clean break from fossil fuels

Bankwatch Mail | 13 March, 2012 | Download PDF

‘Carbon Rising’, a new study from Bankwatch, catalogues the EIB’s energy lending for the period 2007-2010 during which time the bank loaned EUR 40 billion to energy projects across the EU and EUR 8 billion outside the EU. This lending was guided by the EIB’s first energy policy ‘Clean Energy for Europe: A Reinforced EIB Contribution’, adopted by the bank in 2007.


Infrastructure in the developing world: does it need PPPs?

Bankwatch Mail | 13 March, 2012 | Download PDF

Bankwatch Mail invited two specialists, Matt Bull of the World Bank’s Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility and David Price of the Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, Queen Mary, University of London, to debate the issue of PPPs in the developing world.


EBRD plans for Egypt slammed by human rights group

Bankwatch Mail | 13 March, 2012 | Download PDF

An independent Egyptian human rights organisation, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), published in early March a scathing assessment of the EBRD’s plans for its future investment activities in Egypt. Based on an EBRD Technical Assessment document, EIPR takes issue with the EBRD analysis on three main counts:


Strategic thinking needs to win out in the future Cohesion Policy debate

Bankwatch Mail | 13 March, 2012 | Download PDF

As the Polish Presidency ended at the turn of the year and the last formal meetings were over, the Polish government decided it was time to speak out more openly about its own position concerning the future of Cohesion Policy, as it was no longer obliged to remain neutral in the negotiations. This EU budget item had been the priority for the Presidency, as Poland is hoping to receive as much as EUR 80 billion in the forthcoming 2014-2020 period.


EU Funds delivering domestic energy efficiency in Latvia – concerted facilitation and promotion is the key

Bankwatch Mail | 13 March, 2012 | Download PDF

Encouraging developments related to the deployment of EU funds in Latvia for improving household energy efficiency have reached Bankwatch Mail from Latvian Green Movement, our member group based in Riga.