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Commentary: Will civil society have a say with the EBRD in the Southern Mediterranean?

Briefing | September 30, 2011

Preparing for its expansion of operations to the Southern Mediterranean region, the EBRD, after four months of silence, held a consultation meeting with five non-governmental organisations. This briefing gives a short overview over the transparency challenges that lie behind and ahead of the affected civil society.

Manana Kochladze

Email: manana at bankwatch.org

Postal address Tbilisi
Green Alternative
62 Chavchavadze avenue
0162 Tbilisi
Georgia

Languages: Georgian, English, Russian

Manana joined Bankwatch in 1998 and works as Regional Coordinator for the Caucasus since 2002. As the founder of the Tbilisi-based environmental group Green Alternative, Manana is the group's chairwoman as well as IFI program coordinator.

Green Action (Zelena Akcija)

September 27, 2011

Zelena Akcija was founded in 1990 and is a leading non-governmental organization for environmental protection in Croatia. Its activist approach is based on a small team of professionals that supports the work of numerous volunteers and activists, who cover a wide range of topics in their work.

Conference highlights green corridors' benefits

September 26, 2011

Source: Charlotte Owen, ENDS Europe

Green corridors have an important role to play in delivering new transport policy goals in the European Commission's March white paper, the Polish EU presidency said at a conference held in Szczecin, Poland, last week.

Institution: EU Funds

Theme: Transport

Marijan Galovic

Email: marijan AT zelena-akcija.hr

Zelena Akcija / Green Action
Frankopanska 1, pp. 952
HR-10000 Zagreb
Croatia

Tel./Fax: + 385 01 481 3096

Kontrowersje wokół budowy elektrowni węglowej w Rajkowach

September 22, 2011

Source: Przemysław Zieliński, Portal Pomorze

PELPLIN. Nie odbyła się zaplanowana na 20 września debata o elektrowni węglowej w Rajkowach z udziałem niezależnych ekspertów, przedstawicieli inwestora oraz samych mieszkańców. Zdaniem władz gminy zabrakło czasu na jej organizację. Trwają negocjacje nad nowym terminem.

Institution: EIB

Theme: Energy & climate

Right track, weak attitude. The EU's Resource Efficiency Roadmap.

The European Commission this week published its ideas on how to build a resource efficient economy in Europe. Bankwatch's resource efficiency expert Marijan Galovic thinks the roadmap's focus is not wide enough yet.

Tags: EU budget European Commission policy PPP waste incineration EU

Institution: EU Funds, EIB

Theme: Resource efficiency

Kohäsionspolitik - Weg zu nachhaltigem Investitionswerkzeug

September 22, 2011

Source: , Deutscher Naturschutzring

Im Rahmen des Europäischen NGO-Forums zur Kohäsionspolitik-Reform 2014–2020 im September in Wandlitz haben die TeilnehmerInnen aus 15 Europäischen Ländern ein Statement verabschiedet, das jetzt online veröffentlicht wurde.

Institution: EU Funds

The EU's free CO2 allowances: A gift to the rich

September 22, 2011

Source: Barbora Hanzlova, EurActiv

The Czech Republic's intention to hand out free CO2 allowances to CEZ, an already profitable energy company, would turn it into a dominant actor on the EU energy market and paradoxically threaten competition, writes Barbora Hanzlova, from the Centre for Transport and Energy, a Prague-based non-profit group.

Theme: Energy & climate

Bankwatch Mail 49

Bankwatch Mail | September 21, 2011

This edition focuses mostly on the European Investment Bank and EU funds related issues. Among the questions we discuss are: How is the EU budget, this 1 trillion euro process, shaping up, and will sustainability finally have a bigger role? and Will EIB investments in the Southern Mediterranean bring benefits to the people there or to Western companies?

Institution: EU Funds, EBRD, EIB

Theme: Energy & climate, Transport, Resource efficiency, Social & economic impacts