Poland‘s Eastern Wielkopolska region has an ambitious plan to get rid of coalby 2030 and guarantee a Just Transition to its citizens.
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The Italian draft recovery plan envisages thousands of kilometers of new cycling tracks which would increase the quality of urban life and contribute to the just transition. Read more

In Estonia, the Ida-Virumaa Just Transition Plan would phase out shale oil and replace it with greener, more efficient heating solutions.
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Spanish rural areas can benefit from Recovery money to ensure a sustainable and just ecological transition.
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In Belgium‘s Wallonia region, almost 30% of Recovery cash would be used for advanced renovation of social housing and public buildings. Read more

In Spain, Recovery money is planned for funding the sustainable transformation of cities and municipalities. Read more

In Poland, Recovery funds would be used to improve energy efficiency in buildings, often still heated with coal. Read more

Bulgaria would use some Recovery money (could be more!) for renewables and energy efficiency measures in private buildings. Read more

In Hungary, EU regional funds would support decentralised, community-owned renewable energy projects. Read more

In Czechia, a decentralised, citizens-based initiative developing small-scale renewables has applied for funding from the Modernization Fund. Read more

The Polish Recovery plan would finance citizens-led renewable energy communities and cooperatives. Read more

Bulgaria plans to modernize its buildings stock with recovery funds, but the proposed renovation measures go without necessary reforms and are off targets. Read More

France will spend Recovery money to renovate public administrative buildings instead of private homes, while 12 million people in the country are affected by energy poverty. Read More

Germany’s draft Recovery plan fails to underpin energy efficiency targets with sufficient financial means. Read More

The draft Latvian Recovery Plan shows a low level of ambition on energy efficiency, despite the urgent need to renovate the buildings stock. Read More

Despite being potentially efficient and sustainable, district heating has been left out of Latvia’s draft recovery plan. Read More

Hungary leaves more than 95% of homes without any meaningful contribution to boost their energy saving potential. Read More

The Croatian Recovery plan has been drafted in the secrecy of the Prime Minister’s office, without any involvement of civil society. Read more

The Estonian Recovery plan is being drafted behind closed doors, making it impossible to verify whether it has all the climate action elements required. Read more

In Slovenia, public consultations on the Recovery plan are open only to a handful of selected businesses and local authorities. Read more

The German draft Recovery plan is weak on governance and fails to promote transformational changes towards a green economy. Read more

Czechia is side-lining civil society from the planning of its Just Transition, In blatant breach of the partnership principle. Read more

The German draft Recovery plan fails on civil society participation, additionality and structural reforms. Read more

Poland plans to use regional and Recovery funds for roads and air transport, thereby substantially increasing its GHG emissions. Read more

No cycling infrastructure is planned in the Polish Recovery plan, despite citizens, regions and Parliament committee’s demand to create a comprehensive national cycling network. Read more

The French Recovery plan is a missed opportunity for a much-needed regeneration of national railways. Read more

Slovenia will spend its recovery cash on building more roads, while it would actually need more trains and public transport. Read more

Portugal will use Recovery money to expand road infrastructure, while neglecting greener transport modes such as railways. Read more

Hungary might allocate a big share of its Just Transition and Modernization funding to the partial transformation of energy-intensive and polluting industries. Read more

In Estonia, the decarbonization of big industries risks coming at the expense of the needs of local communities involved in the Just Transition. Read more

With renewables development lagging behind, France will invest €2 billion of its Recovery money on hydrogen, raising concerns on how it will be produced. Read more

The Slovakian Recovery plan allocates €3 billion for green investments, but still falls short on energy efficiency, transport and public participation. Read more

Germany’s draft Recovery Plan doesn’t allocate enough money to restore and protect nature, despite ecosystems being in steep decline. Read more

The Italian recovery could support the production of hydrogen from fossil gasand its use in rail traffic, leaving renewable solutions behind. Read more

France will not use Recovery money to support wind and solar, despite not being in line with its 2020 renewables target. Read more

Latvia will not invest any cohesion and Recovery money into its largely underdeveloped wind energy sector, despite having a huge untapped potential. Read more

In Spain, a lot of Recovery money is planned to be spent on green hydrogen, which remains immature and much more expensive than solar or wind energy. Read more

Germany’s recovery plan prefers subsidising fossil mobility rather than emission-free solutions, despite transport emissions being on the rise. Read more

In Belgium, Flanders region plans to spend Recovery money on hybrid buses, which will lock public transport into fossil fuels for many years. Read more

After having recently privatised aviation, Slovenia decided to bail out those companies and start up new ones with national and Recovery funds. Read more

Bulgaria plans to use EU cohesion funds to finance a motorway passing through the Kresna Gorge, an area with the richest biodiversity in the country. Read more

Portugal is planning to use EU Recovery money for a dam that is not needed and carries severe environmental and social risks. Read more

In Bulgaria, cohesion funding might finance the construction of a roadcutting through a natural park, threatening the habitat of protected species. Read more

In Spain, the agri-food industry might receive lots of Recovery cash for a project doing very little to make industrial agriculture more sustainable. Read more

EU funding for a waste incinerationplant condemns Sofia, the Bulgarian capital, to burn precious resources for the next 3 decades. Read more

Romania plans on using EU regional funds for the expansion of the gas distribution system, which is completely at odds with the energy transition. Read more

Italy’s Recovery plan might allocate €10 billion of EU funding to tax credits that favor fossil gas heating systems in buildings. Read more

Poland plans to use EU money to fund a massive expansion of fossil gas use, which will lock the country into a fossil dependency for decades. Read more

In Bulgaria, Recovery money would be used for a coal-to-gas switch, which risks increasing fossil gas dependency for households. Read more

Poland plans to use Recovery and Just Transition funding to build polluting and expensive waste incinerators that are not needed. Read more

The French government will give a blank check worth €2.5 billion to the most polluting companies in France. Read more

In Czechia, big polluters will receive a major share of the Modernisation Fund, thereby delaying the transformation towards a more decentralised and democratised energy system. Read more

In Czechia, a network of political-industrial elites might derail Just Transition funding to the benefit of big polluting industries. Read more