November 24, 2021 7:14 pm
Published by Alastair Clewer
The three parties set to form Germany’s next government have agreed to strive to bring forward the country’s inadequate 2038 coal exit to 2030, and substantially accelerate its renewable energy rollout, but have complicated Germany's climate plans by choosing to expand the use of volatile fossil gas.
November 22, 2021 12:23 pm
Published by loukia
Portugal has become the fourth country in Europe to stop burning coal, with its only remaining coal plant, Pego, closing ten days ahead of schedule. It concludes a whirlwind coal exit, which began when the country signed a declaration to exit coal by 2030 at COP23 in Bonn back in 2017.
June 30, 2021 5:02 pm
Published by loukia
Spain and North Macedonia joined the Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA) at the London Climate Action Week today, bringing the number of European countries that have committed to phase out coal by 2030, or are already coal free, to sixteen. North Macedonia will close its two coal plants by 2027, while Spain has opted for an unambitious 2030 end date for coal, despite closing all of its coal mines and more than half of its installed coal capacity since 2019.
June 8, 2021 7:53 pm
Published by Alastair Clewer
Poland’s Łódź region has announced that the EU’s most polluting coal plant, Bełchatów, will close by 2036 and its mines by 2038.
June 8, 2021 3:47 pm
Published by Beyond Fossil Fuels
The European Commission has just two days left to make a needed intervention in the dispute between the Czech Republic and Poland over Turów.
November 8, 2021 1:09 pm
Published by loukia
PRAGUE, 8 November 2021 – The new Czech government signed its coalition agreement [1] today containing just a cursory nod […]
November 4, 2021 5:22 pm
Published by loukia
Polish Climate and Environment minister Anna Moskwa has confirmed that Poland intends to phase out coal only in 2049, contradicting her government’s commitment to the COP26 Global Coal to Clean Power Transition Statement just hours after signing it.
June 7, 2021 2:36 pm
Published by Beyond Fossil Fuels
Operator Eins Energie für Sachsen has decided to bring forward the closure, Germany’s Chemnitz-Nord plant will shut six years earlier.
June 3, 2021 12:59 pm
Published by Beyond Fossil Fuels
Romania has confirmed that it will exit coal in its National Resilience and Recovery Plan (NRRP) submitted to the European Commission.