Strategic Area Leader - Cities for people
Email: fidankab AT bankwatch.orgTel.: +359 877 303 097
Fidanka joined Bankwatch in 2004 as a Balkan coordinator and became an EBRD campaign coordinator in 2010.
She holds an Environmental Science and Policy degree from the Central European University and an Environmental Law degree from Queens University, Belfast.
More from Fidanka Bacheva-McGrath
Call for the EBRD to condemn retaliation against civil society
December 21, 2018 | Read more
The space for civil society is rapidly shrinking across the world. This is especially true in the countries of EBRD operations, where crackdowns on freedom of expression, association, and assembly threaten the very existence of independent civil societ
Comments on the EBRD Draft Energy Sector Strategy
November 16, 2018 | Read more
On 8 October the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Special Report “Global Warming of 1.5oC”. The report warned that at the current level of climate commitments the world is on course for a disastrous 3 degrees Celsius of
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has recently issued a new draft Energy Strategy for public consultation that will define its activities in the energy sector from 2019-2023. It clearly commits to halt all direct financing for coal p
EBRD – still fixated on gas despite IPCC warnings
October 15, 2018 | Read more
In its new draft strategy for the energy sector, meant to guide the bank’s lending between 2019-2023, the EBRD gives too much prominence to gas as a so-called “bridging fuel” on the way to decarbonisation – much more prominence than is given to energy savings and even to sustainable renewables.
Comments on the draft EBRD Agribusiness Sector Strategy
September 12, 2018 | Read more
These comments focus on the sustainability of EBRD investments, the need for better governance in the sector (both corporate and institutional), on issues that the draft Strategy is missing and needs to include or define better. While the draft inclu
