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A captive Commission – the role of the financial industry in shaping EU regulation

The vast majority of financial ‘experts’ advising the European Commission represent the banks and investors responsible for the global economic crisis, according to this report published by the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER EU). ‘A captive Commission – the role of the financial industry in shaping EU regulation’ examines how before, during …

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Gone to Waste: The valuable resources that European countries bury and burn

Despite progress in recent years countries across the European Union (EU), including the United Kingdom (UK), are continuing to dispose of significant amounts of valuable recyclable materials to landfill or incineration. This analysis examines this disposal in more depth, in an attempt to provide a reasonable estimate of the amount of different recyclable materials that …

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EU Funds in Central and Eastern Europe: Roadmap to sustainability or dead-end investments?

This map presents environmentally and socially harmful projects being supported by EU Cohesion Policy Funds. It shows 33 harmful projects in Central and Eastern Europe with total costs of sixteen billion euros. The projects, which include highways passing through protected nature sites, waste incinerators and airports, are being paid for – or being considered for …

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Cashing-in on tar sands – RBS, UK Banks and Canada’s ‘blood oil’

This report summarises some of the main problems witnessed with tar sands extraction in Canada and presents evidence about the impacts of tar sands extraction on local peoples’ health, land rights and livelihoods, as well as on the environment. It documents which UK banks are involved in providing financial backing for tar sands, how much …

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Potential unfulfilled: EU funding and Cohesion policy can do more for sustainable climate and energy development in central and eastern Europe

As this report on EU budget spending in central and eastern Europe shows, there is still a vast gap between intentions to achieve positive climate objectives and the actual use of available EU money. The findings in this report describe the ongoing failure in implementing the EU’s current climate objectives, which are still low in …

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