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Major blow to Bosnia hydropower project as Germany’s KfW drops financing plans
German development bank KfW has today confirmed that it has dropped plans to finance the controversial Janjići hydropower plant on the river Bosna in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Spotlight on nature’s diversity
Start of “Europe’s Natural Treasures 2022” international photography competition
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New Position Paper: Energy generation without destroying nature is the path to climate neutrality 2040
Reduce, prioritise, restore: How to consume and generate energy to tackle the climate and nature crises.
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EU Pilot Project Strengthens Nature Conservation at the European Green Belt
On November 9, 1989 the Berlin Wall came down – the beginning of the end of the Iron Curtain. 32 years later, the EU-funded project „BEST Belt“ aims to make it easier for local nature conservation organisations getting access to EU funds.
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Demand: EIB has to improve environmental and social standards
The European Investment Bank has financed a series of damaging hydropower projects since 2010 which underline the need to tighten its environmental and social standards, according to a new report published today by CEE Bankwatch Network and EuroNatur.
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Mark of support for biodiversity: EuroNatur Award presented to World Biodiversity Council researchers
++ Researchers working for the World Biodiversity Council IPBES have received the 2021 EuroNatur Award ++ Science is drawing attention to dramatic species extinction ++ Biodiversity crisis a threat to humanity ++
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Saving biodiversity: Researchers of IPBES receive EuroNatur Award
++ Researchers of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) are being awarded the EuroNatur Prize 2021 ++ Dramatic species extinction is a result of human activity ++ The biodiversity crisis and the climate crisis go hand in hand ++
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Bat roost safeguarded for the future
++ Building work on the “Old Brewery” in Frankfurt (Oder) completed ++ Hibernation roost for more than 1,200 bats ++ International conference 26th-28th October 2021 ++
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Stop species extinction! EuroNatur Award for World Biodiversity Council Researchers
++ EuroNatur Award 2021 goes to scientists from IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) ++ Body cautions tirelessly on biodiversity loss ++
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Goldman Environmental Prize for the “Brave Women of Kruščica”
++ River defenders from Bosnia and Herzegovina win the Goldman Environmental Prize ++ For the second time in the past three years an activist has has received this prestigious award for campaigning against hydro power in the Balkans ++
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