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EU leaders support green energy campaign: The European Council calls for phasing out fossil fuel subsidies
Blog entry | May 23, 2013

Just as Bankwatch published a new infographic juxtaposing the European Investment Bank's beneficial and harmful energy lending, Europe's political leaders have set a priority for energy investments to phase out fossil fuel subsidies and focus on clean energy instead.

EIB
Energy & climate
coal, EIB energy, energypolicy, EU, EUCO, European Council, fossil fuels, infographic
The European Investment Bank's energy lending: stuck in the past or facing the future?
Press release | May 23, 2013

The European Investment Bank, the house bank of the European Union, which directs a fifth of its annual lending portfolio of 60 to 70 billion euros to energy projects, is currently reviewing the policy document that guides its lending to the power sector. On this occasion, Bankwatch is publishing a poster of positive and negative examples of the bank’s lending to energy projects.

EIB
Energy & climate
coal, EIB, energy efficiency, energypolicy, EU, fossil fuels, infographic, renewables, visualisation
Divesting from coal is not ideology but climate science - a reminder for the EBRD
Blog entry | May 14, 2013

The energy director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has made astonishing statements about coal investments prompting Bankwatch's EBRD campaign team to react.

EBRD
Energy & climate
Balkans, Caucasus, CEE, Central Asia, climate, climate action, climate science, coal, EBRD annual meeting, energypolicy, EU, EU neighbourhood, fossil fuels, guardian, Puliti, Southern Mediterranean
Fair treatment is a long time coming at Serbia's Kolubara lignite mine
Blog entry | May 13, 2013

People from the Kolubara mine basin in Serbia have many stories to tell about the hardships they face due to the lignite mining operations. Serbian Bankwatcher Nikola Perusic adds his account to two stories in the guardian and in Bankwatch Mail 56.

EBRD
Energy & climate
Social & economic impacts
Other harmful projects
Balkans, coal, energypolicy, EU neighbourhood, Kolubara, mining, resettlement, water
No end in sight for EBRD coal finance
Press release | May 10, 2013

Istanbul – With the 2013 EBRD annual meetings underway and in spite of repeated commitments to sustainability, the bank is set to continue financing coal projects that will dangerously aggravate climate change.

EBRD
Energy & climate
Balkans, Caucasus, CEE, Central Asia, coal, energypolicy, EU, EU neighbourhood, Southern Mediterranean

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