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EBRD-financed gold mining in Kapan, Armenia
In 2005 the EBRD provided four and half million euros to the Dundee Precious Metals company for environmental improvements at its Deno Gold Mine in Kapan, Armenia. ...
Regions: Armenia
Issues: Environment, Food & health & development, Sustainable development
Towards a carbon-free cohesion policy - part 1
Final panel of the conference "Climate Proofing EU Structural and Cohesion Funds" (November 17, 2009) organized by Friends of the Earth - Europe and CEE Bankwatch Network and hosted by the ...
Regions: Eastern Europe, Europe, Southern Europe
Issues: Environment, Sustainable development
Change the lending, not the climate!
In December last year, Bankwatch launched its new report on the European Investment Bank's energy portfolio....
Regions: Africa, Asia, South America
Issues: Environment, Sustainable development
EBRD - lost in transition
Bankwatch expects a largely business as usual approach from the EBRD on Monday, November 2, when it publishes its 2009 Transition Report, accompanied by rhetoric about learning lessons from the econom...
Regions: Central Asia, Eastern Europe
Issues: Corporations and human rights, Environment, Sustainable development
Min(d)ing its own business: the EIB approach to exploitation
How does the mining sector work in Africa?...
Regions: Africa
Issues: Poverty, Sustainable development, Water
Where does climate change fit into the EU and G20 agendas?
Bankwatch's international climate coordinator Katerina Husova highlights some of the main topics from the recent EU heads of state summit in March and outlines what key issues regarding climate change...
Regions: Global
Issues: Environment, Poverty, Sustainable development
On a wing and a prayer: a bird's eye view of dams
Ahead of The International Day of Action for Rivers on March 14 that opens this year's alternative World Water Forum in Istanbul, Counter Balance presents some of the bird-brain thinking that accompan...
Regions: Africa, Americas & the Caribbean, Asia
Issues: Environment, Sustainable development, Water
Latvian woes should not pave the way for economic stimulus by any means necessary
Recent news of its governments collapse is further evidence of hardships that Latvia faces as the global economic crisis deepens within the country....
Regions: Latvia
Issues: Corporations and human rights, Environment, Sustainable development
One BIG PIG goes to market: a cautionary tale
A comic look at the basics of the European Investment Bank, the world's biggest public financial institution....
Regions: Africa, Americas & the Caribbean, Asia
Issues: Corporations and human rights, Environment, Poverty
Cohesion in Crisis - fast or smart?
CEE Bankwatch Network and Friends of the Earth Europe EU Funds coordinator Keti Medarova-Bergström warns us that environmentally destructive and economically unsound projects, at a total cost of EUR ...