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Wwf, stop a investimenti ifi nei Balcani

Source: , ANSA

ROMA - I forti investimenti nei combustibili fossili da parte delle istituzioni finanziarie internazionali (Ifi) nei Balcani occidentali stanno ostacolando la conformità di questi paesi ai requisiti per l'adesione all'Ue. E' quanto si sostiene nel nuovo rapporto "Invest in Haste, Repent at Leisure" (Se investi frettolosamente, poi te ne penti) diffuso oggi da See Change Net, Cee Bankwatch Network e Wwf, che chiedono lo stop degli investimenti pubblici internazionali verso i combustibili fossili.

EIB outlines new energy lending criteria

Source: Dave Keating, European Voice

Controversy remains over whether the bank should fund coal plants.

New EIB Energy Policy: A Missed Opportunity

Brussels -- The EU’s global leadership on climate change is set to take another blow if the European Investment Bank, the EU house bank and one of the world’s largest public lenders, adopts a future energy lending policy as presented yesterday to the public. The draft policy includes weaker standards for lending to coal plants than currently proposed in both the US and Canada.

Invest in haste, repent at leisure - Are IFIs behaving as if EU accession criteria and extreme energy losses do not exist in South East Europe?

South-eastern Europe is riddled with poor planning and corruption in the energy sector and its governments are proving slow to react to the challenges and opportunities offered by the decarbonisation agenda.

A tale of neglect: Energy finance figures from the Western Balkans

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The neglect by international financial institutions of the Western Balkans sustainable energy potential will cost the region's public heavily for years to come. Figures collected in a new study illustrate how the different international lenders perform in the region.


Development banks energy investments jeopardise the ability of Balkan accession countries to meet EU energy and climate targets, says new report

Brussels, Belgium – Heavy investments in fossil fuels by international financial institutions (IFIs) in the Western Balkans are hindering these countries’ compliance with EU accession requirements, finds a new report - “Invest in Haste, Repent at Leisure” - from civil society organizations CEE Bankwatch Network, SEE Change Net and WWF, created as part of the SEE SEP (South East Europe Sustainable Energy Policy) programme.

Russian and European NGO investigations lead to the filing of a complaint against VINCI CONCESSIONS RUSSIE SA and against unknown persons before the Nanterre Public Prosecutor

Paris, 24 June 2013 - Sherpa, Russie-Libertés, CEE Bankwatch Network and MOBO Princip, as well as members of Russian civil society such as the environmental activist Evgenia Chirikova, today submitted to the Public Prosecutor of Nanterre, France, a complaint relating to the conditions in which the NORTH WEST CONCESSION COMPANY - NWCC - , which is wholly owned by the French company VINCI CONCESSIONS RUSSIE, was awarded a public contract in 2009 concerning the construction of the highway between Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

Little impact of EU aid for Egypt - Ongoing abuses and Brussels scrutiny puts EBRD's best laid plans in question

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How is the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development able to justify a brand new host country agreement with Egypt, given the abuses still being endured in Egypt and the failure of one billion euros of EU money to improve the economic and human rights situation there?


Une filiale russe de Vinci poursuivie devant la justice

Source: Herve Kempf, Le Monde

Lundi 24 juin sera déposée devant le procureur du tribunal de grande instance de Nanterre une demande d'ouverture d'enquête préliminaire sur faits de corruption d'agent public étranger et de recel de trafic d'influence, à l'encontre de la société Vinci Concessions Russie, une filiale du groupe Vinci.

Transparency in Serbia

Source: Harriet Salem, The Guardian

In 1999, bombs rained down on Belgrade as Nato forces attempted to topple Slobodan Milosevic's regime. Amid the chaos of war, Natasa Djereg, a student at the University of Belgrade's faculty of forestry, founded the Centre for Ecology and Sustainable Development (Cekor) with her professors. "Those were terrible years," says Djereg, who is now the director of the NGO. "We wanted to start a project that looked to the future."

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