{"id":45176,"date":"2020-10-22T07:30:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T05:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/?p=45176"},"modified":"2020-10-21T19:45:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T17:45:12","slug":"letter-to-werner-hoyer-president-of-the-european-investment-bank-on-the-loan-for-the-extension-of-the-a49-motorway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/issues\/pollution\/45176\/letter-to-werner-hoyer-president-of-the-european-investment-bank-on-the-loan-for-the-extension-of-the-a49-motorway\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Werner Hoyer, president of the European Investment Bank, on the loan for the extension of the A49 motorway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Greenpeace sent a letter to the European Investment Bank’s (EIB) president asking to cancel the bank’s \u20ac264 million loan (signed in September) to fund the extension of the A49 motorway between the AS Schwalmstadt and Ohmtal-Dreieck junctions in Hesse, Germany. A centuries-old forest is currently being cut<\/a> to make way for the motorway. The EIB itself estimates the extension will be responsible for 277,000 tons of CO2-equivalent<\/a> emissions per year. The EIB is trying to become “Europe\u2019s climate bank<\/a>“; it has the opportunity to do so by cancelling climate-destroying loans for motorways and airports and by adopting a strong climate roadmap. <\/p>\n\n

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A Greenpeace activist protests over the Dannenr\u00f6der forest for climate-friendly traffic planning and against further destruction of the forest for the highway 49.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

The EIB is currently developing a new climate roadmap for itself. The roadmap will outline how the EIB intends to align its lending policy with the Paris Agreement in the next five years. Despite its commitment to ending lending money to fossil fuels projects from 2021, there is a big gap between the EIB\u2019s stated aims to act as Europe\u2019s climate bank and its operations.  <\/p>\n\n

Some 27 hectares of the Dannenr\u00f6der forest are to be cleared in the coming months for this  extension project. Over the past year, people started moving into the forest to prevent its  destruction, and Greenpeace joined in September, urging public authorities to stop the planned  clearing of the Dannenr\u00f6der forest and the construction of the A49 motorway. More than 200,000  people have signed a petition to save the Dannenr\u00f6der forest and stop the motorway project. <\/p>\n\n

Read the full letter to EIB President Hoyer here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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