Publications

As this rigorous analysis of the European Investment Bank’s energy portfolio from 2002 until the end of 2008 reveals, the EIB continues to heavily support fossil fuels while its lending for renewable energy maintains a promising, if only rather steady, share – in spite of th…

The Center for Environmental Information and Education has lodged this formal complaint related to infringements of EU law associated with the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) permitting process for the cyanide installation at phase 2 of the Chelopech proje…

The EIB responded to our letter on December 22, 2009. Their response can be downloaded as pdf here.

As the EBRD prepares to develop a new sectoral policy on mining [Update Jan 2012: the update has been postponed for the last two years], this collection of case studies looks at the impacts on communities of the gold mining projects the bank has financed thus far.

Bankwatch is concerned about the EIB and EBRD’s plans to finance the Moscow – St Petersburg motorway, which threatens the Khimki Forest outside of Moscow. Local people are vigorously campaigning to ensure that the motorway does not destroy their local green area. Here, we as…

The briefing outlines plans to introduce the highly toxic chemical cyanide into the leaching of gold in Bulgaria. It describes the fierce public opposition to it and the shortcomings in the EIA process for the Chelopech, Kurdjali and Krumovgrad projects. It also points to th…

As the EBRD reviews its country strategy for Turkmenistan, the letter requests the bank to bear in mind the serious human rights violations occurring in Turkmenistan, as exemplified by Mr. Zatokas case.