Waste management in Uzbekistan: the high risks that the EBRD refuses to see
February 20, 2023 | Read more
People living in the settlements adjacent to landfills slated for expansion under an EBRD waste management project were not adequately consulted.
Tbilisi’s public transport woes and faltering reforms
September 28, 2022 | Read more
Residents of Georgia’s capital Tbilisi have been struggling with the city’s beleaguered public transport network, air pollution, road congestion and inadequate access to schools and workplaces for years. In the past decade, Tbilisi authorities with the involvement of international financial institutions, set out to improve the situation. Today, despite the availability of funds, most of the old problems persist.
Run over by a massive motorway project, Mostar residents demand to be heard
February 11, 2022 | Read more
Mostar residents were never properly consulted about the proposed pan-European motorway that threatens their livelihoods and nature of the Neretva valley. After a recent win in a discriminatory lawsuit, they’re hoping that the controversial route around Mostar might finally be consulted with them and reconsidered.
Paving over paradise
December 17, 2021 | Read more
What were once iconic views of Georgia’s beautiful Khada Valley are slowly disappearing. Now, when you drive up the damaged road towards a narrow, 12-kilometre-long gorge, also known as the ‘valley of 60 towers’, the first thing you see is no longer the famous tower of Iukho village. Instead, a massive, white and blue metal construction site appears. Trucks, roaring and echoing through the mountains, drive back and forth near cultural heritage monuments to provide materials for the Kvesheti-Kobi road towards Russia.
Turning the Tide
October 27, 2021 | Read more
The past is never dead – In spite of warnings about its risks and promises of its safety, the idle Shuakhevi hydropower plant in Georgia continues to wreak havoc on local lands and livelihoods.
Between the hammer and the anvil
July 14, 2020 | Read more
More than 90 per cent of Kosovo’s electricity generation comes from the two coal-fired power plants, Kosova A and Kosova B. But they are also the biggest polluters in the country and are responsible for most of the air pollution in the town of Obiliq, located between the two plants.
