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Submission to the EBRD strategy for Uzbekistan
June 19, 2018 | Read more
It is important that the EBRD clearly indicates to the Uzbekistan government the need to have progress towards meeting those benchmarks from over 15 years ago that remain relevant to this day. We suggest that the Country Strategy will envisage an early
After years of delay, the New Kosovo lignite power plant took a step forward in 2017 with the signing of commercial contracts. However, numerous old issues, including carbon emissions, resettlement, and the dubious single-bidder procurement process, ha
The economic viability of coal is ever decreasing. Without public financial support many coal investments are doomed to fail. Yet several institutions are still willing to finance an energy source that wrecks our climate, damages our health and wastes
In the Israeli Environmental Protection Ministry’s annual ranking, Israel Chemicals has been topping the lists of corporate environmental offenders. For the EIB, the company has “sound environmental policy” which justifies a quarter of billion euros for supporting R&D of specialty chemicals. Ahead of the first anniversary of the Ashalim spill, which originated from an ICL subsidiary’s chemicals plant, a new Bankwatch analysis questions the EIB’s engagement with the company.
The toxic wastewater spill from the Rotem Amfert plant that caused a severe environmental disaster in Ashalim Stream, Israel, in late June 2017 joins a long list of pollution events the company has been responsible for through the years. In fact, even
