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Western Balkans

Proposal for just transition in Western Balkans for next Multiannual Financial Framework

May 2, 2025

With the financing for just transition on the EU level under threat, the ambition for moving forward with just transition on the local level in the Western Balkans is rapidly decreasing because the EU is not prioritising the process. To revive ambition


Western Balkan governments are willing accomplices in Azerbaijan’s abuse of COP29. Will the EU act to defend climate integrity?

November 22, 2024

This year’s COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Baku never looked like a serious attempt to tackle the global climate emergency. After all, its hosts plan to increase oil and gas production by a third over the next decade – hardly a sign of climate leadership.


From quantity to quality: how to improve the infrastructure project selection process under the Western Balkans Investment Framework

August 29, 2024

The Western Balkans Investment Framework provides finance and technical assistance for investments, particularly in infrastructure, energy efficiency and private sector development. 


Western Balkans can leapfrog gas for solar and wind to power clean energy transition

July 16, 2024

Countries of the Western Balkans have enough prospective utility-scale solar and wind projects to generate four times more electricity than from gas-fired plants, saving billions of euros and avoiding significant carbon emissions in the process, according to a new report from Global Energy Monitor.


A race to the top: Western Balkans 2024

July 16, 2024

A report by Global Energy Monitor, CEE Bankwatch Network and REScoop.eu reveals the Western Balkans have more than 23 GW of proposed utility-scale solar and wind projects—almost 70 per cent more than a year ago.


Local authority planning for a just transition: Why Western Balkan coal regions should create their own redevelopment plans and how it can be done

April 26, 2024

From December 2020 to December 2023, the European Union implemented its first Initiative for coal regions in transition in the Western Balkans and Ukraine


Sustainable renewables incentives – how are the Western Balkans doing?

June 29, 2023

In the decade leading up to 2020, the Western Balkans’ energy transition got off to a poor start, with governments limiting wind and solar investments and instead incentivising a small hydropower boom, which has damaged pristine rivers and streams across the region.


Comply or Close 2023: five years of deadly legal breaches by Western Balkan coal plants

June 28, 2023

The end of 2022 marked five years since new air pollution standards entered into force in the Western Balkans on 1 January 2018. Yet the deadly air pollution from the region’s mostly antiquated coal power plants has hardly decreased at all. In fact, in 2022 it increased compared to 2021 for all three regulated pollutants


Western Balkans: EUR 1 billion in EU funds to tackle the energy crisis – with gas?!

November 7, 2022

At last week’s Berlin Process Summit, President von der Leyen announced an energy support package of EUR 1 billion in grants to help the Western Balkans address the immediate consequences of the energy crisis. But will it end up being blown on pointless gas infrastructure?


EIB moves to curb intermediated hydropower financing

July 29, 2022

The EU’s house bank has recently updated its exclusion list, a document detailing what kind of projects it will not finance. This finally closes a long-standing loophole allowing ill-suited intermediaries to finance hydropower projects.


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