High risks for hydropower investments in the Balkans
Greenfield large hydropower investments across southeast Europe (1) face major risks and low realisation rates, according to a new report by CEE Bankwatch, EuroNatur, Riverwatch and WWF Adria published today, which also highlights nine high-risk project cases (2).
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Exploring the unknown: Science Week on the upper Neretva river
Around 50 international scientists and river conservationists spent a week carrying out research on the upper reaches of the Neretva river. The data will be used to help stop hydropower projects on the Bosnian river.
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Attention for RED4Nature campaign
On 22 and 23 June, artists and EuroNatur employees attracted attention in Brussels with two high-visibility events. With artworks and a flash video, they brought the Renewable Energy Directive into focus.
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Albanian Government signs commitment to establish a Vjosa Wild River National Park
++ Albania takes an important step towards protecting the Vjosa River as government signs commitment to collaborate on Europe’s first Wild River National Park ++
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World Water Day 2022 - Groundwater: The Liver of our Rivers
The theme of this year’s World Water Day is “making the invisible visible” with a special emphasis on the importance of groundwater.
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Hydropower as a climate saviour? A myth long outdated
River valleys are fertile habitats for humans and animals. Destroying them – to generate supposedly climate-friendly hydropower – has nothing to do with climate protection. If the Renewable Energy Directive recognises this, it will send an important signal for nature conservation throughout Europe.
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Airport construction in Albania threatens to destroy important wetland area
++ Albanian government planning to build airport in Narta Lagoon ++ Possible revision to boundary of Vjosa-Narta protected area ++ 2nd February is World Wetlands Day ++
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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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The Albanian village of Kutë goes solar
After a fund-raising campaign, solar panels are being fitted on the roofs of public buildings in the village of Kutë on the Vjosa river. They have been installed as an explicit alternative to hydro power in the supply of electricity.
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Bern Convention targets crimes against nature
Dams, power plants, airports: numerous complaints from nature conservation organizations against destructive projects in the Balkans
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