energy

Coal power plants make you sick

A new report calculates the effects of coal-fired power generation across Europe on chronic lung disease and some heart conditions and the associated costs. It is another clue for both the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank to end support for coal as the two revise their energy policies.

Tags: climate coal costs disease energy energypolicy fossil fuels health local impacts Balkans EU

Theme: Energy & climate, Social & economic impacts

Dreams of European Investment Bank Quitting Coal Go Up in Smoke - For Now

February 28, 2013

Climate activists take responsibility for fake press release, bizarre award ceremony

Brussels -- The European Investment Bank (EIB) president Werner Hoyer was forced to say this morning, during the EIB’s annual press conference, that an announcement that the bank would give up lending to coal was “pure nonsense”. And this, despite the fact that Hoyer repeatedly referred to the EIB as a frontrunner in the fight against climate change.

Institution: EIB

Theme: Energy & climate

Tags: Brussels, coal, EIB, EIB energy, energy, energy lending, energypolicy, fossil fuels, hoax, policy, public action, EU

Anti-coal campaign in Kosovo puts focus on health

A campaign against a new lignite power plant in Kosovo uses World Bank figures to highlight the health damage resulting from pollution.

Tags: campaign coal energy energypolicy fossil fuels Kosovo video Balkans EU neighbourhood

Institution: EBRD, World Bank Group

Theme: Energy & climate, Social & economic impacts

Off on the wrong foot in Kosovo? A lignite power plant and the EBRD

Notwithstanding the dominance of lignite in Kosovo's energy mix, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development may get involved with yet another lignite project in the Western Balkans.

Tags: air pollution coal energy energypolicy Kosovo lignite Balkans EU neighbourhood

Institution: EBRD

Theme: Energy & climate

EIB Capital Increase May Not Further EU Goals

January 14, 2013

Brussels -- Last week’s ten billion euros capital increase for the European Investment Bank (EIB), allowing the bank to lend 60 billion euros extra over the next three years, must come with clear commitments from the bank to stop loans for dirty energy, say NGOs.

Institution: EIB

Theme: Energy & climate, Social & economic impacts

Tags: EIB, energy, energypolicy, EU, EU neighbourhood, Global South

The EIB's energy lending in the spotlight

Briefing | January 14, 2013

The European Investment Bank has opened a review of its energy policy and called for the public's views on the key future challenges for the bank's operations. The lending figures to the energy sector until 2011 show that the policy must better guide the EIB's lending towards EU policy objectives of de-carbonisation of the energy sector.

Institution: EIB

Theme: Energy & climate

EIB energy policy review - Time to lock out climate destructive investments for good

Bankwatch Mail | December 14, 2012

The European Investment Bank (EIB), the EU’s bank and also the biggest public financial institution in the world by lending volume, has launched a public consultation on its energy policy and is seeking views from the public and other stakeholders that should feed into a review of one of the EIB’s most crucial lending sectors. The new policy is expected to take effect from June 2013.

Institution: EIB

Theme: Energy & climate

If we're not having one, then neither are you: time to grow up?

November 15, 2012

Source: Pascoe Sabido & Iryna Holovko, Policy & Politics blog - Friends of the Earth UK

What a week in the fight for clean British energy: scandal erupted when Conservative Party members were exposed colluding with James Delinpole, in his obsessive efforts to wipe wind-farms off the map, and Ed Davey's statement in the Commons yesterday about energy companies fixing gas prices demonstrated once again the urgent need to overhaul our energy system.

Not only are elements of this government trying to undermine a green future here in the UK, they are also threatening green hopes in Ukraine. Among all the energy market mayhem, you'd be forgiven for missing it, but in addition to messing up our own clean energy karma, the UK may actually back a huge European loan for the Ukrainian nuclear power sector.

http://www.foe.co.uk/blog/nuclear_energy_uk_ukraine_38000.html

Institution: EBRD

Theme: Energy & climate

Tags: EBRD, energy, nuclear, nuclear safety, transparency, Ukraine, EU neighbourhood

Environmentalists, get your keyboards ready: The European Investment Bank asks for inputs on its energy policy

With annually more than ten billion euros of investments in the energy sector, the EIB can have a tremendous influence on our energy future. If we want the bank to help us “get it right”, the time for providing inputs is now.

Tags: climate action EIB energy energy efficiency fossil fuels policy renewables EU EU neighbourhood

Institution: EIB

Theme: Energy & climate, Resource efficiency

Another case of alleged corruption in a CEE energy company

Alleged corruption at Poland’s second biggest state-owned energy company ENEA S.A. may compromise yet another project financed by European public banks.

Tags: corruption ENEA energy Poland privatisation CEE EU

Institution: EBRD, EIB

Theme: Energy & climate, Social & economic impacts