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Home > Archives for Aarhus convention

Aarhus convention

Last call for EU bank to uphold UN treaty on transparency

May 19, 2021

For too long, transparency and public participation have been a low priority for the European Investment Bank (EIB). Now it appears the world’s largest international lender is even in breach of international environmental law on access to information and public participation.


Members of European Parliament ask European Commission to take firm position on nuclear transparency, public engagement and safety across Europe

May 10, 2017

In this joint letter, 18 members of the European Parliament, Nuclear Transparency Watch and CEE Bankwatch Network are asking the European Commission, as an opinion-making party of relevant international conventions, to provide leadership and express it


Europe’s false solutions for Ukraine’s energy woes

March 9, 2016

Current EU support is not just a distraction from the energy path Ukraine needs to take, it also puts countless communities in Ukraine and abroad at risk.


Letter: EBRD and EURATOM support for life-time extension of Ukraine’s nuclear reactors is in breach of international law

March 30, 2015

In this letter 46 non-governmental organisations alarm European Union representatives involved in the decision-making at the EBRD and Euratom to the fact that Ukraine is pressing ahead with its plans to extend the life-time of its old nuclear reactors even though they are in breach of international law (Espoo Convention) and without proper impact assessments and despite UKraine’s obligations under the loans provided by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Euratom.


EIB set to weaken transparency standards

January 27, 2015

Brussels — One week before the European Investment Bank’s board of directors is expected to approve the bank’s new transparency policy, 13 civil society groups* monitoring the EIB warn that, as it stands, the draft policy amounts to a weakening of the already dismal transparency standards of the EU’s house bank.


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