Devex Invested: As the year ends, a new boss at EIB
December 19, 2023
Institutional Development …
How Russia won a ‘dangerous loophole’ for fossil gas at Cop28
December 15, 2023
With the EU ambivalent and small island states absent, Russia’s call for “transitional fuels” – read gas – made it into the Cop28 agreement …
COP28: The EU’s climate goals and the Western Balkans challenge
November 30, 2023
EU members are set to push at the upcoming COP28 climate summit for an agreement to gradually phase out fossil fuels that emit carbon …
The EU and US are fossil-fooling the Western Balkans with gas How can the region cut to a clean future?
November 29, 2023
The Western Balkans’ energy transition is finally starting to pick up pace. But false solutions such as fossil gas threaten to divert resources and create new fossil-fuel lock-in. So why do the European Union (EU) and United States (US) continue to push such projects in the region and what can be done about it?
CEE Bankwatch slams new wave of Balkan gas projects
November 24, 2023
The Bulgaria-Serbia Gas Interconnection is recognised as an EU Project of Common Interest. / European Union …
Amidst the climate crisis, European Commission green-lights new fossil gas projects in Poland and Croatia
November 22, 2023
Poland and Croatia are set to receive EUR 1.2 billion in EU recovery funds to expand liquefied gas (LNG) terminals and build new pipelines.
Devex Invested: The private sector aid battle
November 7, 2023
Energy …
Montenegrin NGOs counter Varhelyi pledge on LNG terminal
October 24, 2023
27 civil society organisations have sent a joint letter to the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, (1) questioning a recent statement by Enlargement Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi that the EU would help Montenegro to build a liquified gas (LNG) terminal at the port of Bar (2), and calling on the EU not to support the project.
Montenegrin NGOs wrote to Von der Leyen: Do not support the project to build a liquid gas terminal in the port of Bar
October 22, 2023
The letter states that Montenegro is not connected to international gas networks and uses only small amounts of fossil fuel, which puts it …
Другое наступление Баку. Азербайджан расширяет влияние на Балканах
October 1, 2023
Президент Сербии Александр Вучич (справа) принимает в Белграде президента Азербайджана Ильхама Алиева. Ноябрь 2022 года На фоне недавнего …
