Towards a dirtier world
Bankwatch in the media | August 9, 2012
Would anyone like to buy some triple A derivatives that simultaneously prove to everyone that you are a truly caring person?
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Can Poland Be an Effective Champion of Brussels’ Emissions Policy?
Bankwatch in the media | June 17, 2011
A Warsaw at odds with the EU will soon lead the bloc in climate-change talks.
European Bank Pumps Money Into Kazakh Oil and Gas
Bankwatch in the media | June 20, 2011
The EBRD talks of sustainable development and democratization, but the lender’s policies in Kazakhstan don’t seem to match its mission statement.
Climate Change, Coal and Curbing a Lobbyocracy?
Bankwatch in the media | August 5, 2011
All EU Member States face lobbying from fossil fuel companies, and singling out any specific country does not alter the fact that it is endemic. However, a couple of very pertinent case studies have recently come to QCEA’s attention, documenting how powerful lobby groups have disproportionately skewed the debate. These cases serve to illustrate that advocating greater transparency and public discussion of the interests that different lobbyists represent, plays a crucial part in the fight against climate change.
In Kyrgyzstan, a Mountain of Trouble
Bankwatch in the media | March 5, 2012
The Kyrgyz government desperately needs the money generated by gold mining. But can it live with the growing international criticism?
Eastern Europe’s neoliberal disaster provides a warning for the Arab spring
Bankwatch in the media | May 20, 2012
I wonder if David Cameron spent any time in eastern Europe in the 1990s.
Dundee brushes off poisoning claims
Bankwatch in the media | November 25, 2015
The Tsumeb-based mining company responded yesterday to questions sent by Namibian Sun on Monday, following an article that was published by international non-government (NGO) group BankWatch which claimed that the waste disposal site at the Tsumeb Smelter is piling up with arsenic left from the smelting of European ore – sparking fears of soil and water contamination. DPM spokesperson Alina Garises says BankWatch has a long history of being against mining of any sort.
Eastern Europe, Turkey cashing in on EIB crisis funds
Bankwatch in the media | February 22, 2011
Small and medium-sized companies in Eastern Europe and candidate countries will receive almost half of the money for crisis loans disbursed by the European Investment Bank, according to data released today (22 February).
EBRD refutes claim it will fund Ukrainian reactor life extensions
Bankwatch in the media | May 31, 2012
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has rejected claims by an anti-nuclear group that a loan it is considering together with Euratom for Ukraine’s nuclear sector will be used to extend the operating lives of the country’s Soviet-era reactors.
EU budget debate: Some one trillion euro questions and answers
Bankwatch in the media | October 11, 2012
Keti Medarova-Bergstrom and Pawel Swidlicki put their heads together to identify why and where EU budgetary spending has got it wrong in the past and propose how roughly €1 trillion can better serve Europe’s environment, economy and people in the next funding period.
