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Financial intermediaries must not prevent transparency at the EBRD
February 1, 2011

On the occasion of a revision of the EBRD's public information policy, Bankwatch points out the lack of information when it comes to financial intermediaries.

financial intermediaries
EBRD
Social & economic impacts
Tree adoptions lead to more arrests in Khimki Forest
January 17, 2011

Despite the Russian government's controversial decision to go ahead with the Moscow St. Petersburg motorway's original routing through Khimki Forest, environmental activists have not given up their struggle to save the last remaining natural area in a densely populated region.

human rights, motorways
EBRD, EIB
Transport
WikiLeaks cable confirms NGOs' worst fears about Belene nuke
January 3, 2011

A US diplomatic cable, originating from the WikiLeaks organisation and published in the Guardian newspaper just before Christmas, relates the serious misgivings of US Ambassador in Bulgaria, Nancy McEldowney, over the planned Belene nuclear power plant in Bulgaria.

nuclear, Wikileaks
Energy & climate
Getting from A to B while cutting out the GHGs - Is some ambitious, climate-real transport lending about to turn up at the EIB?
December 7, 2010

In the face of official EU statements stressing the need to decarbonise Europe's transport sector, our analysis has found that a rise in EIB lending between 2006 and 2009 for roads and aviation has coincided with a dramatic decrease in EIB lending for urban public transport.

aviation, cars, motorways, policy, public transport
EIB
Transport
Have you voted in the 2010 worst EU lobbying awards yet?
November 5, 2010
 | by Pippa Gallop

ArcelorMittal, one of the candidates for the worst EU lobby award, is the world's largest private steel company, producing 10 per cent of the world's steel. It is also one of Europe's largest emitters of CO2. Yet the company successfully lobbied the European Commission on behalf of Europe's biggest polluters to continue getting free greenhouse gas emissions permits until at least 2020.

accountability, ArcelorMittal, corporations, EU, extractive industries, local benefits, policy, transparency
EBRD, EIB
Drop the handbags and pick up the green potential of the EU budget
November 2, 2010

The EU budget involves billions of euros of public money and it influences a huge array of economic sectors across the continent - it also stirs up thoughts of handbags.

EU, EU budget, European Commission, local benefits, policy, energy & climate
EU Funds
Transport, Resource efficiency
Bankwatch co-production on Kyrgyz gold mine wins at DOK Leipzig while EBRD sights financing for company featured in the film
October 26, 2010

During last weeks internationally-renowned 53rd Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, DOK Leipzig, Bankwatch's most recent co-production about the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)-financed Kumtor gold mine in Kyrgyzstan All that Glitters collected two awards: the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk award for an excellent Eastern European documentary film and the Healthy Workplaces Film Award for the best documentary film about the subject of work.

accountability, extractive industries, local benefits, mining, success
EBRD
Other harmful projects, Mining
Rotten perceptions, grim reality Turkmenistan off the agenda in European Parliament, Nabucco still nowhere near fit for purpose
October 26, 2010

Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, launched today, confirms Turkmenistan's position as one of the world's least democratic regimes. Promoters of the Nabucco gas pipeline project have opted to adopt a surprisingly tolerant approach to Turkmenistan's endemic failings.

EBRD, EIB
Energy & climate, Social & economic impacts
Khimki Forest activist arrested for holding banner during picket action
September 13, 2010

Russian activist Yaroslav Nikitenko was arrested by police on Saturday during a legally permitted picket action in the town of Khimki near Moscow. The action was part of the campaign to change the route of the planned Moscow-St Petersburg motorway so that it avoids the Khimki Forest.

activism, arrest, human rights, Khimki, protest, Russia
EBRD, EIB
Transport, Social & economic impacts
In Moscow, thousands protest destruction of Khimki Forest
August 23, 2010

In spite of heavy policing, several thousand people yesterday rallied at a concert in Pushkin Square to voice opposition to the destruction of the Khimki Forest to make way for the EUR 1.5 billion first section of the Moscow - St. Petersburg motorway, a project that may receive financial blessings from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank.

demonstration, Khimki, protest, Russia
EBRD, EIB
Transport, Social & economic impacts

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