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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EU Structural and Cohesion Funds should foster sustainable development and the transformation to a low-energy-consuming society, living within its ecological limits. In so doing they should support the deployment of energy efficiency measures and renewable energy sources, should prevent any harmful social and environmental impact of their investments and actively protect biodiversity and improve ecosystem resilience.
Bankwatch input to EC consultation on an EU initiative on concessions
September 30, 2010 | Read more
The European Commission (EC) has recently invited inputs to its consultation on an initiative on concessions that aims to improve the rules for concession contracts in the EU. PPP advocates insist on their cost-effectiveness, timely completion rates and the sharing of financial risk – yet so far the evidence for these claims is decidedly mixed. In our comments we call for a thorough and independent assessment of the performance of PPPs so far and their financial and social impact.
The European Commission responded to our letter on October 8, 2010. Their response can be downloaded as pdf.
