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United Nations report highlights risks and failures of public-private partnerships
March 14, 2016
 | by Pippa Gallop

A United Nations study finds that public-private partnerships involve substantial risks for the public sector and have often failed to yield ‘value for money’.

accountability, financial risk, PPP, public-private partnerships, UN/DESA, United Nations
EBRD, EIB, World Bank Group
Social & economic impacts
Europe's false solutions for Ukraine's energy woes
March 9, 2016
 | by Iryna Holovko

Current EU support is not just a distraction from the energy path Ukraine needs to take, it also puts countless communities in Ukraine and abroad at risk.

Aarhus convention, energy, Espoo Convention, Euratom, nuclear safety
EBRD
Energy & climate
Guest post: Walking the line
March 8, 2016
 | by Emma Hughes

Plans for the Southern Gas Corridor / Euro-Caspian Mega Pipeline will solidify the west's dependence on fossil fuels and authoritarian regimes. A new web documentary shows why we should stop and think.

democracy, Euro-Caspian Mega Pipeline, human rights, Ilham Aliyev, Khadija Ismayilova, Puglia, Southern Gas Corridor, web documentary
EBRD, EIB
Energy & climate, Social & economic impacts
[Campaign update] Key costs still missing in Montenegro coal power plant debate
March 4, 2016
 | by Pippa Gallop

Tens of questions remain unanswered about costs related to a new unit at the Pljevlja lignite power plant in Montenegro.

coal, corruption, costs, Pljevlja, state-aid
Energy & climate
Expert analysis confirms Croatian Plomin C coal plant is economically unfeasible
March 3, 2016
 | by Pippa Gallop

Responding to the lack of official economic data for Croatia's Plomin C coal project, a new analysis finds that the project is highly risky.

analysis, coal, economic feasibility, health, Plomin, pollution, state-aid
Energy & climate
Do not fund Southern Gas Corridor with EU money
March 1, 2016
 | by Xavier Sol

The flashbulbs at Azerbaijan’s official photo opportunities should not blind Europe’s leaders to the country’s accelerated descent into authoritarianism, writes Xavier Sol.

Baku, EIB, Energy Union, Euro-Caspian Mega Pipeline, human rights, Southern Gas Corridor, TANAP, TAP
EBRD, EIB
Energy & climate, Social & economic impacts
Croatia, Italy and Colombia linked by harm from coal industry
February 22, 2016
 | by Pippa Gallop

Last Tuesday activists from Croatia, Italy and Colombia formed a human chain in front of the Plomin coal power plant to highlight that the real price of coal is human lives – at both ends of the chain of production.

coal, Plomin C
Energy & climate
Slovakia's EU funds spending plans: finance for the energy transition - where's it at?
February 5, 2016
 | by Miroslav Mojzis

Slovakia has missed the opportunity to use the EUR 14 billion of Cohesion spending to transform its largely monopolistic, heavily state influenced energy economy with its high dependence on imported fossil fuels and high carbon intensity.

biomass, co-firing, Cohesion Policy, renewables, transition
EU Funds
Energy & climate, Transport, Resource efficiency
Croatia's EU funds spending plans: Land of unfulfilled clean energy potential
February 4, 2016
 | by Pippa Gallop

EU funds could do a whole lot more to help the transformation to an efficient sustainable energy system in Croatia if the country adopts an effective strategy to get there, argues our research co-ordinator, Pippa Gallop.

Cohesion Policy, renewables
EU Funds
Energy & climate, Transport, Resource efficiency
Turceni coal unit in Romania shut down after operating illegally
February 4, 2016
 | by Alexandru Mustata

The shut down of a coal-fired power plant unit is another great success for the climate and for clean air in Romania. Many more units may have to follow according to legislation on pollution limits.

coal, emission limits, OEC, Oltenia Energy Complex, pollution, protest, success, Turceni
Energy & climate

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