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Eko-svest

August 8, 2011

Eko-svest (Eco-sense) was established on September 18, 2002 in Skopje. It is a nonprofit, non-governmental, environmental organisation.

Eko-svest's interests cover waste management, sustainable transport, the promotion of transparency in the work of international financial institutions (IFIs) in Macedonia, protection of the environment and cultural heritage, promotion of sustainable energy sources, and genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

Atgaja

August 8, 2011

The community “Atgaja” was established by a group of young idealists in Kaunas, July 1987. Since then Atgaja was among most active environmental groups in Lithuania and had an influence on the development of the Lithuanian environmental movement.

Latvian Green Movement

August 8, 2011

Latvian Green Movement (Latvijas Zala kustiba - LZK) is an open and democratic membership organisation that brings together environmental activists, volunteers and experts who want to actively work to improve the quality of the environment and to prevent environmental damages.

Mining in Shakhtinsk

Mining in Shakhtinsk - dangerous working conditions

Mining in Shakhtinsk - employment travails

Bypassing responsibility

The complaints office at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has agreed to investigate a complaint from Bankwatch that a railway project in Georgia has not been properly assessed. Georgian Bankwatcher Dato Chipashvili thinks the case should be a lesson for the EBRD to make sure that from the start local people have their say in how projects are done.

Tags: hazardous waste participation public transport railways success transparency Caucasus EU neighbourhood

Institution: EBRD

Theme: Transport, Social & economic impacts

Demonstrace proti nelegálnímu kácení v Národním parku Šumava

Climate Change, Coal and Curbing a Lobbyocracy?

August 5, 2011

Source: Rachel Tansey, qceablog

All EU Member States face lobbying from fossil fuel companies, and singling out any specific country does not alter the fact that it is endemic. However, a couple of very pertinent case studies have recently come to QCEA’s attention, documenting how powerful lobby groups have disproportionately skewed the debate. These cases serve to illustrate that advocating greater transparency and public discussion of the interests that different lobbyists represent, plays a crucial part in the fight against climate change.

Comments on the draft EBRD country strategy for the Kyrgyz Republic

Policy comments | August 5, 2011

As the Kyrgyz Republic is an Early Transition Country with limited capacity for additional external borrowing and in light of recent political events in the country, Bankwatch emphasizes that the EBRD must carefully weigh and analyse any project it considers for financing in this particularly vulnerable country.

Institution: EBRD