Strategic Area Leader - Beyond Fossil Fuels
Email: ioana.ciuta AT bankwatch.orgTel.: +4031 438 2489
loana joined Bankwatch in 2014 as energy coordinator for the Western Balkans, preventing new coal capacities from being built in the region, but also campaigning for improved air quality. Since taking on the current role, she has been leading campaigns to accelerate the transition to clean, sustainable energy in Central and Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans, and lately, Central Asia. She also serves as president of Bankwatch Romania and joins efforts against unsustainable hydropower development, while fighting to keep the space for civil society. With a background in journalism and over two decades of environmental activism, she works to bridge grassroots action with policy change for a just, fossil-free future.
More from Ioana Ciută
A dodgy deal to export coal from Romania to Serbia has left the Romanian state-owned coal supplier with a potential seven million euros write-off.
Will Ukrainian coal hijack today’s Energy Community meeting?
September 23, 2014 | Read more
Currently presiding over the EU-backed Energy Community’s Minsterial Council, Ukraine will likely try to dilute environmental regulations in the Treaty. But the country’s ageing coal-fired power plants are troubled by inefficiency and pollution and in dire need of environmental improvements.
Cross-border coal pollution for the first time under scrutiny by UN body
September 22, 2014 | Read more
A new unit at the Kostolac coal-fired power plant in Serbia is the first coal project to be considered by the Espoo Convention Implementation Committee for transboundary impacts.
South and eastern European member countries of the Energy Community may soon have to be much more ambitious about environmental standards in the energy sector. This is because the Energy Community, the body that aims to create a common energy market between the EU and some of its neighbours, may be about to introduce more of the EU environmental acquis into its Treaty.
The Turkish Garanti Bank, one of the winners of the Sustainability Awards of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is among the main coal investors in Turkey.
