Green Solidarity: Guiding principles for a truly just Social Climate Fund
November 6, 2024
The Social Climate Fund (SCF) was established by the EU to help alleviate the negative social and economic impacts of the new Emissions Trading System (ETS2), which introduces a carbon price on transport and heating.
SARAJEVO TRAMWAY: Secret Contract with the Chinese
June 14, 2024
Almost a year after the completion of the project, the Sarajevo Canton Ministry of Transport is concealing the contents of the contract for …
Can the EBRD deliver effective sustainable infrastructure in the transport and municipal sectors?
February 1, 2024
This briefing makes recommendations aimed at contributing to the preparation of the EBRD’s new Sustainable Infrastructure Strategy.
Dis/Connectivity in the South Caucasus
August 29, 2023
Imaginaries, the Effects of Power, Ambivalences …
“Carta abierta” a Scholz: Sector transporte reclama firmeza sobre el fin del motor a combustión
March 17, 2023
Nueve de las ONG medioambientales más grandes de la Unión Europea han presentado un escrito al Gobierno alemán solicitando que apoye …
Ukraine reconstruction: why we need electric urban transport investments now
October 25, 2022
A sustainable transport reconstruction in Ukraine’s cities should be a priority not only in long-term post-war recovery plans, but also in urgent support programs.
Towards a people-powered, green transformation in Almaty
February 16, 2022
The EBRD must move away from its carbon tunnel vision and widen its perspective on all impacts of climate investments in cities
The dark side of EBRD’s Green Cities
December 20, 2021
Residents of Almaty’s Kairat district are being suffocated by an illegal depot for diesel buses. They call on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to find a solution before the Bank approves a new loan for green public transport in Kazakhstan’s largest city.
Corridor Vc in Bosnia and Herzegovina
January 29, 2021
The transport Corridor Vc is a motorway planned to run for 330 kilometers through Bosnia and Herzegovina. Various sections of this corridor are being financed by the EIB and the EBRD. This briefing provides an overview of the key issues identified by a Bankwatch fact finding mission to a section of the motorway project south of Mostar, including non-transparent decision making, a threat to the fragile balance of interests of different ethnic groups in this post-war community, illusory public consultations, and biodiversity at risk.
A treasured World Heritage Site in Bulgaria is under threat from a trans-European road network – Equal Times
June 19, 2019
From Valentin Stoichkov’s terrace, the views over the Pirin Mountains are breathtaking. The deputy mayor of the small town of Kresna, in south-western Bulgaria, has built an extension to his family’s modest dacha (summer home) in the foothills of this
