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Rovinari unit 7, Romania
The Romanian Government has been negotiating for several years with the Chinese Government to build a new 600 MW unit at the lignite power plant in Rovinari, Gorj County. The new unit would be built on the site of Units 1 and 2, currently decommissioned. A new up and running plant would pollute the whole region for at least 40 more years, a coal plant’s average lifespan.
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Gacko II, Bosnia and Herzegovina
State-owned utility Elektroprivreda Republike Srpske, together with China Machinery and Engineering Corporation (CMEC) and Emerging Markets Power Fund, plans to build a new 350 MW lignite power plant in Gacko, near the town’s existing plant, and in December 2017 a Memorandum of Understanding was signed to move the project forward.
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Kamengrad lignite power plant, Bosnia-Herzegovina
An idea to build a power plant at the open-cast Kamengrad coal mine near Sanski Most in the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina has been around for years, but in 2017 it took a step forward with the November signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Energy China International and the Bosnia-Herzegovina construction supplier Lager d.o.o. for a 2 X 215 MW plant.
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Gender inclusion in the EBRD public transport and water projects in southern Kyrgyzstan
Study | 20 September, 2018 | https://bankwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Gender-inclusion-in-southern-Kyrgyzstan-EBRD-projects-CEE-Bankwatch-Network.pdf">Download PDFThe research team has conducted a survey that was focused on gender inclusion in the EBRD funded public transport and water projects in Osh, the second largest city in Kyrgyz Republic. The outcome of this publication revealed that the bank’s objectives …
Comments on the draft EBRD Agribusiness Sector Strategy
Policy comments | 12 September, 2018 | https://bankwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Comments-on-the-draft-EBRD-Agribusiness-Sector-Strategy.pdf">Download PDFThese 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 …
Energy doublethink: contradictions at the EU bank in combatting climate change
Study | 11 September, 2018 | https://bankwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/EIB-energy-policy-review-FULL.pdf">Download PDFThis year the European Investment Bank is expected to review its 2013 ‘Screening and Assessment Criteria for Energy Projects’, also known as its Energy Lending Criteria, which governs the types of projects the bank can finance in the energy sector. The …
Comments on the EBRD’s draft Country Strategy for Uzbekistan
Policy comments | 22 August, 2018 | https://bankwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/UZ-draft-country-strategy-BWcomments-Aug18.pdf">Download PDFWe call on the EBRD to outline in the Uzbekistan Country Strategy a new strategic approach or a comprehensive plan for supporting Uzbekistan’s ambitious reform path in the areas of Good governance and protection of rights and freedoms of citizens. The …
Putting human rights first at the European Investment Bank. Upcoming opportunities
Briefing | 23 July, 2018 | https://bankwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/BRIEFING-JULY-2018-BWN-CB-PGN-EIB-and-Human-Rights.pdf">Download PDFThe nearly 1,000 kilometre route connecting Mombasa and Lake Victoria has always been of key importance for the development of Eastern Africa. The narrow, crowded car road is still the main artery of the region. By 2020, the Kenya National Highways Aut …
