An advisor to the European Court of Justice (CJEU) has said that Poland infringed EU law by extending the licence for its Turow coal mine without carrying out an environmental impact assessment. A final verdict by the CJEU is expected by the spring.
A Warsaw court has ruled that Polish authorities were wrong to implement an Environmental Impact Assessment at PGE’s Turow coal mine with immediate effect. The ruling effectively blocks the highly controversial 23-year licence extension that Polish utility PGE thought it had secured for its mine.
The business plans of European coal companies do not contain the intermediate targets necessary to deliver on their net zero pledges, according to a new report published today by Europe Beyond Coal and think tank Ember, and endorsed by ten other organisations.
LJUBLJANA, 13 January 2022 – The Slovenian government has announced that it will phase out coal by 2033 at the […]
PRAGUE, 7 January 2022 – The Czech Republic has announced it will exit coal by 2033. It’s the 22nd European […]
Europe Beyond Coal’s campaign director, Kathrin Gutmann, is one of only three people globally to have been selected to receive […]
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.
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.
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.