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EBRD joins other financial institutions in restricting coal lending
Press release | December 10, 2013

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) approved today during a vote of its Board of Directors a new Energy Strategy. The document is meant to give guidance on how to strategically use the bank’s resources over the next years to promote energy security and affordability and avoid dangerous climate change.

EBRD
Energy & climate
coal, energypolicy
Guest post: End to UK coal investments overseas welcome - but it must include Kosovo
Blog entry | November 22, 2013

United in spirit with yesterday's blog post on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's coal lending, Visar Azemi from the Kosovo Civil Society Consortium for Sustainable Development calls on the UK government to not support the Kosova e Re lignite power plant via the World Bank and make its promise to end overseas coal financing a reality.

World Bank Group
Energy & climate
Balkans, coal, energy, EU neighbourhood, Kosovo, lignite, World Bank
United Kingdom's retreat from coal increases pressure on EBRD
Blog entry | November 21, 2013

With the United Kingdom, another major shareholder of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is divesting from coal overseas. What does this mean for the upcoming decision on the EBRD’s energy strategy?

EBRD
Energy & climate
#coalfreeEBRD, coal, COP19, divestment, energypolicy, fossil fuels, United Kingdom
Stanari power plant in Bosnia allowed to pollute 2-10 times higher than EU limits, new expert analysis shows
Press release | November 21, 2013

The pollution from EFT's new 300 MW Stanari lignite-fired power plant in Bosnia and Herzegovina may be 2-10 times higher than EU limits allow, according to a new expert analysis commissioned by the Center for Environment from Banja Luka.

Energy & climate
Balkans, Chinese investors, coal, fossil fuels, lignite
Guest post: "Coughing for Coal" outside the coal industry summit at UN Climate Talks
Blog entry | November 19, 2013

Monday morning in Warsaw, climate activists staged a public action in front of the Polish Ministry of Economy – the venue for the greenwashing Coal and Climate Summit – to voice their outrage and reiterate a simple reality: there is no such thing as clean coal.

climate, coal, COP19, EU, protest

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