The Europe Beyond Coal coalition is urging coal region leaders to commit multibillion Euro recovery sums to a clean energy transition - and to tell their governments that the EU should not divert the funds towards a fossil gas-led future.
Civil society groups in Europe launched a set of digital tools to help take part in online protests, blocking European fossil fuel companies.
The Czech coal commission contemplates a post-2030 phase out that would undermine the Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš’s recent commitment.
The Polish lignite mine, Turów, is polluting the Lusatian Neisse River causing subsidence that could damage houses across the German border.
Polish lignite utility ZE PAK says it will shut all of its Polish lignite plants by 2030, making it the first fossil fuel company.
Czech utility EPH has announced it will close its 600 MW Provence coal power plant in France at the end of this year.
The European Parliament will decide whether it would allow fossil fuel companies to hijack the EU’s iconic Just Transition Fund.
Swedish utility Vattenfall has leapt at the chance to shut down its five year-old, uneconomic Moorburg coal power plant.
Turów, 30 August 2020 - Local citizens and people from across Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic are kayaking to the Turów mine today, in protest of the failure of their governments and EU institutions to uphold laws protecting them and their water from the mining and burning of coal.