Anna Roggenbuck

Indigenous communities in Georgia threatened by a major hydropower project financed with European public money

May 10, 2019 | Read more

There are many reasons why the Nenskra hydropower plant in Georgia should not be built at all. The project is set to have devastating environmental and social impacts, and its economics are particularly shoddy.

A review of EIB’s Energy Lending Criteria

March 28, 2019 | Read more

The review of Energy Lending Criteria gives the bank the opportunity to align its energy financing with the Paris Agreement and catch up with the rapid developments in the clean energy sector, in order to provide the necessary financial boost for the d

When the EU’s bank can’t kick the fossil fuels habit

March 27, 2019 | Read more

As the European Investment Bank (EIB) is nowadays preparing a new Energy Lending Policy to guide its investment in energy projects, it seems the world’s largest public lender is not willing to acknowledge its contribution to climate change, the biggest crisis currently facing humanity.

Failure of the European Investment Bank to ensure proper climate impact assessment for TAP/TANAP

February 4, 2019 | Read more

In a complaint lodged today with the European Investment Bank (EIB), civil society groups protest that the bank systematically underestimated the climate footprint of a fossil fuel mega project, the Southern Gas Corridor, which helped justify providing

Failing Better or Climate Success?

December 10, 2018 | Read more

All the shareholders of the EIB have ratified the Paris Agreement, and the bank itself has claimed during the One Planet Summit in New York that it will align all its activities with the Paris Agreement by 2020. As President Hoyer put it, ‘I am confide