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European Bank for Reconstruction and Development News
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EBRD EUR 80m boosts role of private industry in east European water sector
The EBRD is investing up to EUR 80 million equity to help raise the quality of water supply and waste water operations across eastern Europe. This equity investment in a private company active in the water sector will also expand the role of the ...
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EBRD pushes forward air pollution reduction programme in Mongolia
The EBRD is spearheading a project to help over 140,000 households in Ulaanbaatar switch from using the high polluting raw coal that swathes parts of the capital in smog for six months a year and which is a major health hazard in the capital. ...
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EBRD finances improvements to heating and water services in Siberia
The EBRD is supporting the rehabilitation and upgrading of municipal district heating, water and wastewater services in the Siberian city of Pyt’Yakh with a 350 million rouble (equivalent to approximately €10 million) loan. A more efficient and ...
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Environmental upgrade for Lithuanian Power Plant
The successful implementation of a flue gas desulphurisation project at the 1800 MW Lithuanian Power Plant (LPP) is being marked with a ceremony today. The project will significantly improve the environmental and technical performance of Lithuania’s ...
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EBRD contributes US$4m to improve solid waste management in Tajikistan
The EBRD will improve the quality of the environment in Dushanbe with a loan of up to US$4 million to a solid waste collection and disposal project in the Tajik capital. In addition to the EBRD loan the project will be co-financed by a $4.0 million ...
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EBRD pays EUR 175m to raise stake in Russia`s OGK-5 power company
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has acquired an additional stake of around 4.1 percent in OGK-5, one of Russia’s six thermal wholesale generating companies. The acquisition of common shares worth the equivalent of EUR 175 ...
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EUR 5m for municipal solid waste management in Serbia
The EBRD is lending €5 million to the Duboko Waste Management Company to build a regional solid waste landfill that will serve more than 300,000 people in nine municipalities across central and western Serbia. Inadequate solid waste treatment is one ...
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MCCF to help Spain fulfil its Kyoto Protocol commitments
The Spanish government and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development have signed an agreement under which Spain is contributing €25 million to the Green Carbon Fund. The Fund is part of the Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund (MCCF) sponsored ...
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€60 million to help modernise Zagreb’s water and sewage system
The EBRD is lending €60 million to the Zagreb water company to help finance capital investments in the city’s water and sewer network in order to reduce water leakages and improve the service for a growing number of local residents. The EBRD ...
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EUR11.4m to cut Plovdiv’s water losses, improve water quality
Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s second largest city, and more than 730,000 people in 210 surrounding towns and villages will benefit from improved reliability of water supply and better quality drinking water as a result of a €11.4 million loan from the EBRD. ...
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Working for cleaner rivers in Russia
Ufa is a thriving Russian city of just over one million inhabitants in the south-western Urals, with low unemployment, a well developed oil and petrochemicals industry and income levels 20 per cent higher than the Russian average. But the capital of ...