Fossil-free EIB

The CEE Bankwatch Network's mission is to prevent the environmentally and socially harmful impacts of international development finance, and to promote alternative solutions and public participation.

The CEE Bankwatch Network is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) with member organisations currently from 12 countries across the central and eastern European region. Bankwatch has been campaigning for reform at the European Investment Bank for over a decade, in attempts to make the EU's house bank more transparent about its operations and accountable to its stakeholders - European taxpayers and the people and communities impacted by EIB operations both within and outside Europe.

For more information, contact:

Petr Hlobil, Bankwatch international affairs coordinator
email: petrh AT bankwatch.org

Anna Roggenbuck, Bankwatch European Investment Bank project coordinator
email: annar AT bankwatch.org

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Change the lending, not the climate!

CEE Bankwatch Network has worked with an external consultancy to conduct a rigorous analysis of the energy portfolio of the European Investment Bank from 2002 until the end of 2008. This was done in the context of the EU's climate and energy targets. As the EU's bank, the EIB is supposed to promote European objectives. Read more

West African Gas Pipeline

The West African gas pipeline (WAGP) is a 681 kilometre onshore and offshore pipeline designed to transport natural gas from gas fields in the western Niger Delta of Nigeria to consumers in Benin Republic, Ghana and Togo. Read more

Oil Exploration in Basilicata, Italy

The European Investment Bank has supported the development of two large onshore oil deposits located in the southern Apennine mountains of the Val d'Agri area in southern Italy. The EIB has also supported the construction of a new 150 kilometre pipeline from the“Monti Alpi” oil storage plant to the coastal city of Taranto. Read more

Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline

The Chad-Cameroon oil development and pipeline project is the largest private sector investment in sub-Saharan Africa. The project's total cost is 4.2 billion dollars and is lead by ExxonMobil. It involves the development of 300 wells in Chad, with an estimated extraction of approximately one billion barrels of oil over twenty-five years. The oil is to be transported via a newly constructed 1040 kilometre underground pipeline bypassing Cameroon to an offshore loading facility. Read more

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