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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Montenegro’s Network for Affirmation of NGO Sector (MANS) is being heavily criticised by the government because of its advocacy on electricity prices. Bankwatch sent this letter of support to Montenegro’s prime minister.
COGEN Slovakia, Cogeneration in Povazsky Chlmec
March 7, 2012 | Read more
The new greenfield gas cogeneration power plant COGEN in north Slovakia is planned to produce power and heat. Located in Považský Chlmec, a town in the Žilina district, the new plant would further deteriorate the quality of life of locals, who have for decades been suffering from the negative impacts of a nearby waste disposal site and nearby highway.
With regards to a EU Council for Environment on March 9, 2012 that will include a discussion on “A Roadmap for moving to a competitive low-carbon economy in 2050”, 22 Polish environmental groups asked the Polish government not to block EU’s acceptance for taking a more ambitious targets in GHG reduction.
The letter, sent by the Coalition for a sustainable EU Budget, includes discussion points that are crucial for the future Cohesion Policy regulations. Now, during the ongoing debates in the European Parliament, it is the role of MEPs to ensure that the EU becomes a resource efficient low-carbon economy, shifting Europe’s regions on a sustainable path.
Recent Balkan hydro projects suggest the European Commission could make much better use of its shareholder role in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
