Ukraine Reconstruction Campaigner
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Anna is Bankwatch’s Ukraine Reconstruction Campaigner, working on green reconstruction and environmental safeguards in Ukraine’s recovery. Her work focuses on alternative sources of energy for communities, energy resilience, and the alignment of Ukraine’s energy policy and public investment management system with EU standards. Originally from Kyiv, she holds an MSc in Environmental Sciences and Policy from Central European University and is based in Bratislava.
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Almost 40 years ago Star Wars was filmed in the south of Tunisia. For many this will be the only association with the country. The city of Tataouine – after which the planet Tatooine was named in George Lucas’ film – is not a touristic mecca, though. The capital of the largest region of Tunisia with 100 000 inhabitants has only 3 hotels which stand largely empty.
No resistance without community – an open assembly, 29 November 2015
November 20, 2015 | Read more
Mega infrastructure projects are imposed in the North an in the South of the world in the name of progress and “development”. But what does development mean today? Experiences of resistance to mega-projects have in some cases allowed to create new processes oriented at “building community”. What are such processes and how do they look like? At an open assembly taking place in Avigliana, Italy on 29 November 2015 people who have made such experience will meet and collectively think about the meaning of building community.
Exporting toxic pollution from Europe to Namibia
November 19, 2015 | Read more
The case of the Tsumeb smelter in Namibia demonstrates how European pollution is exported to the Global South with indirect help of public development money.
The EBRD: Fueling the future, or stuck in the past?
November 19, 2015 | Read more
A closer look at the projects that the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has financed in the energy sector in Middle East and North African countries reveals that, despite the bank’s rhetoric about promoting sustainable energy, its balance sheet has fossil fuels all over it.
