EBRD Annual Meeting 2024
April 17, 2024
EBRD Annual Meeting 2024 Yerevan, Armenia Between 14 and 16 May 2024, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will hold its annual meeting in Yerevan, Armenia. Like every year, Bankwatch and its civil society partners will raise iss
EBRD Annual Meeting 2023
April 25, 2023
EBRD Annual Meeting 2023 This year, human rights violations, shrinking civic space and marginalisation of communities in Central Asia will be high on our agenda. We’ll be holding the EBRD accountable and advocating for genuine public participation and
Has the EBRD’s political mandate changed?
June 17, 2022
The bank’s pro-democracy principles come into question as it invests in autocracies.
EBRD Annual Meeting 2022
April 26, 2022
EBRD Annual Meeting 2022 This year, the consequences of the war in Ukraine and support for alternatives to gas will be high on our agenda. We’re also helping community advocates affected by EBRD projects to share their stories. Subscribe for updates
EBRD Annual Meeting 2020
October 12, 2020
EBRD Annual Meeting 2020 Empowering communities to be heard. Protecting whistleblowers and pushing back against the threat of violence, intimidation and attacks on free speech and assembly. Preserving the environment. Subscribe for updates
EBRD Annual Meeting 2019 – Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
April 30, 2018
EBRD Annual Meeting 2019 Empowering communities to be heard. Protecting whistleblowers and pushing back against the threat of violence, intimidation and attacks on free speech and assembly. Preserving the environment. Subscribe for updates
If the EBRD stands for democracy it should not support TAP – Italian community addresses bank’s directors
May 11, 2017
At a meeting with the directors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Bankwatch campaigners read a statement from Italian communities opposing the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline, the last leg of the Southern Gas Corridor, a 3500 km pipeline
Balkan lynx stage protest at annual meeting of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
May 15, 2014
A delegation of 20 lynx from Mavrovo National Park in Macedonia today occupied a corridor in the Polish National Stadium in Warsaw, where the EBRD Annual General Meetings are taking place 14-15 May. Their message: “EBRD, don’t finance the Boskov Most dam, as it will destroy the forest in which we live and eventually kill us.” The 20 delegates from Mavrovo Park constitute almost half of the little over 50 lynxes which still survive in the park today (the Balkan lynx is an endangered species).
Funny business at EBRD meeting: sustainability champion Garanti fancies coal
May 14, 2014
The Turkish Garanti Bank, one of the winners of the Sustainability Awards of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is among the main coal investors in Turkey.
Does European financing facilitate the implementation of the Espoo convention in nuclear-energy related activities? Experience from Ukraine.
May 9, 2014
Public finance can play a role in ensuring nuclear safety and the transparency and accountability of government decisions related to nuclear energy by encouraging governments to fully apply Espoo procedures at earlier stages of the programme or plan and to provide more information about loan conditionalities. However, only a limited positive effect has been seen in Ukraine due in part to a lack of transparency by the financial institutions and to the selective application of convention requirements.
