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Central Asia: environmental groups and scientists call on international financial institutions to preserve key freshwater bodies and stop supporting destructive hydropower projects

March 14, 2025

The future of Central Asia’s key rivers and lakes is at risk, warn international environmental groups Rivers without Boundaries, International Rivers, Friends of the Earth US, Urgewald and CEE Bankwatch Network in a formal request sent today to the World Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), European Investment Bank (EIB), Asian Development Bank (ADB), Eurasian Development Bank (EDB), Islamic Development Bank (ISDB) and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).


How to interact with development banks lending to hydropower projects in Central Asia: A toolkit for civil society activists

February 3, 2025

This toolkit is aimed primarily at civil society organisations in Central Asia tackling the construction of dams or other unsustainable water infrastructure.


The Upper Horizons complex, Bosnia and Herzegovina

December 18, 2023

The Upper Horizons hydropower complex has been planned since the mid-20th century, and is planned to consist of three plants — Dabar, Nevesinje and Bileća — linked by a series of tunnels and channels. If completed, it would have a devastating impact on the karst ecosystems of eastern Herzegovina and beyond.  


The Ulog hydropower plant on the river Neretva, Bosnia and Herzegovina

December 18, 2023

The Ulog plant, with a 53-metre high dam, is currently being built on the upper Neretva in the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the middle of a nominated candidate Emerald site – an area which should be protected under the Bern Convention.


Unveiling Strategies to Combat South Africa’s Water Crisis

December 1, 2023

Unveiling Strategies to Combat South Africa’s Water Crisis On the recent segment of #ItsTopical, the spotlight was turned towards the …


Stručnjaci i NVO pozivaju na uključivanje u “Emerald mrežu”: Na Zapadnom Balkanu 88 reka prioritet za zaštitu

February 13, 2023

Emerald mrežu uspostavio je Savet Evrope 1989. godine prema Konvenciji o očuvanju evropske divlje flore i faune i prirodnih staništa Foto …


Western Balkans: scientists and NGO representatives call for more rivers to be protected as part of the Emerald Network

February 13, 2023

Today, scientists and non-governmental organisations from 11 countries have published a list of 88 rivers they consider high priority for protection, urging Western Balkan countries that have signed the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern Convention) to expand the Emerald Network in the region.


Joint Statement On the Expansion of the Emerald Network in Countries of the Western Balkans by scientists and representatives of NGOs

February 13, 2023

In early December 2022, 39 scientists and representatives of NGOs from Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Switzerland joined efforts to prepare a shadow list and a map o


Skavica Dam — the last thing Albania needs

July 22, 2022

Instead of increasing its energy security, Albania is pushing the construction of yet more hydropower, leading to thousands losing their land and the potential extinction of Europe’s rarest cat. Will the US International Development Finance Corporation really consider financing Skavica?


Major blow to Bosnia hydropower project as Germany’s KfW drops financing plans

January 28, 2022

German development bank KfW has today confirmed that it is dropping plans to finance the controversial Janjići hydropower plant on the river Bosna in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 


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