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    Inhabitant of Ostrava suffering from lung cancer sues the Ministry of the Environment for air pollution

    Kristína Šabová

    Yesterday, on 5 November 2018, a lawsuit against the Ministry of the Environment (MoE) on liability for health damages and death of her husband from lung cancer was filed with the District Court in Prague 10. The plaintiff seeks damages for lung cancer, which she has managed to cure, but her husband has succumbed to the illness in October. The cause of the disease is seen in the long-term excessive concentration of air pollutants at their place of residence in Ostrava-Radvanice and in the fact that the MoE failed to provide effective measures to decrease the pollution to legal limit values.

    „The plaintiff and her husband lived their whole life in Ostrava-...

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    Susanna Arus

    Analysis: Companies failing to report meaningful information about their impacts on society and the environment

    Under the Alliance for Corporate Transparency project Frank Bold and its partners have analysed how European companies disclose information necessary for understanding their impact on society and the environment, as required by the EU Non-financial Reporting Directive*. The initial findings of the project point to one overarching conclusion: most companies acknowledge in their reports the importance of environmental and social issues, but more often than not this information is not clear enough in terms of concrete issues, targets and principal risks. This year, the project has assessed over 100 companies from the sectors of Energy & Resource Extraction, Information and Communication Technologies, and Health Care. See full report here: http://bit.ly/2HWraqX (including detailed data, graphics and analysis) See videos from the launch event

    Susanna Arus

    NGOs call on the EU Commission to clarify the legal framework for corporate sustainability reporting

    Over 20 leading NGOs working on corporate transparency have published a statement calling on EU policy-makers to define companies’ disclosure obligations on sustainability issues on the occasion of tomorrow’s high-level conference on the future of corporate reporting hosted by the European Commission in Brussels.

    Laura Haiselová

    Grants are not enough. Air polluters must bear the responsibility and the State must start to solve the problem quickly

    People in the Czech Republic have the right to fresh air but this right is being violated and it is necessary to take effective measures. Representatives of the European Commission, Czech government, industry and Non-Governmental Organizations‘ (NGO) all agree on that. There is a „Clean Air Dialogue” taking place in Prague today and yesterday.

    Laura Haiselová, Frank Bold

    Coal phase-out and integration of renewables? Czech power grid poses no obstacle

    What would happen to Czech power grid in 2030 if all coal power plants were shut down? On 24 May we have publicly presented a study which simulates this scenario. The result is that even without coal-fired generation it is possible to ensure stable electricity supply in the Czech Republic. The scenario includes an increase in renewables to which the current state of the power grid is no obstacle.

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