Claudia Ciobanu

Bulgarian villagers in chronic limbo over coal mine expansion

May 6, 2019 | Read more

Residents of Beli Bryag in Bulgaria’s Stara Zagora region anxiously await removal from their homes to make way for the expansion of a mine that feeds Maritsa East, the country’s largest coal complex.

Heroes of Just Transition

December 7, 2018 | Read more

On Dec. 5, during the side event ‘Local communities build a post-coal future’ at the COP24 in Katowice, Bankwatch launched its publication ‘Heroes of Just Transition’, featuring seven stories from coal communities around central and eastern Europe, the

The European Commission’s platform for coal regions in transition: case studies highlight tilt toward coal companies

June 5, 2018 | Read more

Without adhering to the partnership principle, the Platform for Coal Regions in Transition risks benefiting coal companies at the expense of local communities, in blatant contradiction to its stated goal. In Poland and Slovakia, lack of transparency an