16 November 2021
The end of Spain’s coal industry presents communities on the front line with numerous challenges and opportunities. See how one former mining town has set about adapting to this post-coal world by retrofitting one of its disused coal mines to produce emission-free heat for the community.
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27 March 2023
When we first launched Europe Beyond Coal in 2017, Europe had 328 coal plants and only 3 countries with plans to quit coal. Fast forward to today and coal is in decline. Only 157 coal plants are left without a 2030 closure date and 23 countries are already coal-free or have a plan to quit coal. To solve the cost of living, security and climate crises, we must transform Europe’s power sector so that it is free of fossil fuels and based fully on renewable energy by 2035.
05 February 2018
Sacrificing culture and communities for coal
The Immerather Dom has become a symbol of the lost heritage and community destruction becasuee of the expansion of Germany’s vast Rhineland coal mines.
03 August 2022
HELLENIC HOPE: RAPID SOLAR BUILD-OUT TRANSFORMS GREECE’S COAL-LADEN VALLEY OF TEARS [video]
Our new documentary video “Hope Beyond Coal in Greece’s Valley of Tears” vividly illustrates the challenge, promise and potential of […]
07 April 2022
People in Sivas, Turkey, have been suffering the toxic impacts of coal for three decades. They say they want change, and that installing σolar panels on the region’s coal sites is a big part of the answer.
