February 4, 2013
A campaign against a new lignite power plant in Kosovo uses World Bank figures to highlight the health damage resulting from pollution. Posted on the Bankwatch blog by Sven Haertig-Tokarz, Bankwatch web editor We blogged last week about a new coal power plant near Pristina in Kosovo, that is due to receive support by the… » read more
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January 31, 2013
In an unambiguous letter Members of the European Parliament have reminded the European Investment Bank of the economic and environmental risks that the Sostanj lignite power plant project poses for Europe and Slovenia. posted on the Bankwatch blog by Anelia Stefanova, Bankwatch Campaigns Director Members of the European Parliament have called upon the European Investment… » read more
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Climate & Environment, Energy, fossil fuels , Bankwatch, coal, corruption, EIB, fossil fuels, Slovenia, Sostanj |
November 22, 2012
The EU budget summit, the much-anticipated showdown featuring Europe’s 27 member states, the European Parliament, the European Commission and European Council president Herman van Rompuy over how much EU funding – and for what – is to be spent in the 2014-20 budgetary period, is now on. And all the talk is of what exactly… » read more
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October 23, 2012
With a key EU summit one month away, how do things currently stand with the tortuous, plate tectonic-esque EU budget 2014-2020 negotiations? posted on the Bankwatch blog by Greig Aitken, Bankwatch Mail editor These are negotiations, if you recall, that got underway in summer 2011 when the European Commission proposed that 20 percent of future… » read more
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Climate & Environment, EU Priorities 2020, Euro & Finance, Regional Policy, Sustainable Development , Cameron, Cohesion Policy, Council, EU bugdet, Merkel, MFF, Regional Funds, summit, van Rompuy |
The Polish government has a sad reputation for adopting unilateral, even obscure approaches when it comes to our country’s energy policy. What now came as a very disappointing surprise is that the Polish parliament joined the opportunistic chorus of denial – one that considers alternatives to the continued reliance on fossil fuels as a threat… » read more
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July 31, 2012
Remember this game kids used to play in which you had to find differences between two very similar pictures? I was reminded of it few days ago, when reading news about the latest corruption scandal involving Alstom at a coal plant in Indonesia. A few days ago, the Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission announced that opposition… » read more
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Climate & Environment, Europe's East, fossil fuels, Sustainable Development , coal, corruption, EBRD, EIB, fossil fuels |
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