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Initial Comments on the Proposal for a Regulation on establishing the Ukraine Facility

Policy comments | 21 July, 2023 | Download PDF

Together with Ukrainian civil society organisations Ecoaction and Razom We Stand, Bankwatch sent initial comments to the European Parliament on the proposed regulation on Ukraine Facility. To foster green reconstruction and bring Ukraine closer towards EU membership, the civil society groups argue that the Facility must prioritise public participation and environmental sustainability.


National energy and climate plans: catalysts for the energy transition or box-ticking exercises?

Report | 30 June, 2023 | Download PDF

The following report shows how seven central and eastern European (CEE) countries are approaching the NECP revision and details how the context has changed since the initial NECPs were prepared in 2018 and 2019.


Sustainable renewables incentives – how are the Western Balkans doing?

Briefing | 29 June, 2023 | Download PDF

In the decade leading up to 2020, the Western Balkans’ energy transition got off to a poor start, with governments limiting wind and solar investments and instead incentivising a small hydropower boom, which has damaged pristine rivers and streams across the region.


Hydrogen in the EIB’s reviewed energy lending policy

Advocacy letter | 28 June, 2023 | Download PDF

As the EIB reviews its Energy Lending Policy, Bankwatch and 33 other civil society groups, sent a joint letter o EIB Vice Presidents, to voice our concern about the over-emphasis on hydrogen which risks, among others, diverting renewable energy capacity – existing and planned – from the electricity grid and into the production of hydrogen for sectors that might not be playing a significant role in the energy transition.


Comply or Close 2023: five years of deadly legal breaches by Western Balkan coal plants

Report | 28 June, 2023 | Download PDF

The end of 2022 marked five years since new air pollution standards entered into force in the Western Balkans on 1 January 2018. Yet the deadly air pollution from the region’s mostly antiquated coal power plants has hardly decreased at all. In fact, in 2022 it increased compared to 2021 for all three regulated pollutants


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