Communications officer
Email: ido.liven AT bankwatch.orgTel.: +48 22 892 00 86
A climate communicator with nearly two decades of experience Ido joined Bankwatch in 2015 as a communications officer. During this time he has been working with a range of Bankwatch campaigns, and he is currently leading the communications work for our fossil gas and district heating campaigns. Prior to joining Bankwatch he had worked as a journalist for a decade. His stories, mainly about the environment and international affairs, have been published in many media outlets around the world. In addition to his work in Bankwatch, Ido is a father, a writer and a climate communications expert working with various civil society groups to promote climate justice.
More from Ido Liven
The EBRD must finally leave fossil fuels behind
December 6, 2022 | Read more
No justification for more public money going to the fossil fuels industry, say dozens of central and eastern European civil society organisations. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development must urgently shift its investments to help accelerate the energy transition.
As the realisation of the project keeps dragging on, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the EBRD, and all international financial institutions involved, to justify their engagement.
EIB and Volkswagen keen to return to business as usual
March 7, 2019 | Read more
Long overdue, and short on content, a compact version of the investigation report on the role of EIB money in the Dieselgate scandal affirms Bankwatch’s revelations that helped trigger this important inquiry. But in its aftermath, there is little to suggest that the EU’s bank has done anything to ensure that the public money it manages will not be misused.
Time for the EU’s bank to lead on the clean energy transition
December 7, 2018 | Read more
As world finance paces up to adapt to the global fight against climate change, one main player is lagging behind: the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Union’s bank.
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.
