CEE Bankwatch Network

🚌 In recent years, the public transport fleet in Bishkek – Kyrgyzstan’s capital city – has changed visibly. In a city where privately operated minibuses – or marshrutkas – dominated for years, gas-powered and electric buses have entered the scene.

The municipal fleet currently includes around 1,600 vehicles. Of these, 424 were purchased through grants and loans provided by international financial institutions, including the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) .

While this appears to signal a move to sustainable urban mobility, an analysis of Bishkek’s public transport system conducted by our colleagues in Kyrgyzstan suggests that renewing the fleet hasn’t improved efficiency.

🔗 Read their analysis and recommendations:https://bankwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/More-buses-but-is-the-system-better_-Analysis-of-the-public-transport-network-in-Bishkek.pdf

🌊 Over the past two decades, the lower Sava in Slovenia has been turned into a series of reservoirs and dams.

Now, Slovenia’s state-owned Hidroelektrarne na Spodnji Savi is trying to build the last in the chain – the controversial Mokrice hydropower plant.

Yet the project will have huge impacts on fish species and water quality.

The damage from the Mokrice dam won’t stop at the Croatian border. In the recent environmental assessment, the impacts on Croatia have been downplayed.

🧠 It’s high time to rethink this outdated project.

Read Pippa Gallop's story: https://bankwatch.org/story/the-damage-from-slovenia-s-mokrice-dam-won-t-stop-at-the-croatian-border