Following an explosion of interest in the concept of just transition over recent years, the topic was included as one of the 28 ‘initiatives’ to be signed up to at this year’s UN Climate Action Summit.
After a marathon 20-hour-long meeting that saw CEO Daniel Benes and his advisors bat away 400 shareholder questions and play down multiple climate activist interruptions, the 2019 AGM of Czech
German energy company RWE is the largest polluter in Europe. Its coal-fired power plants emit more than 100 million tonnes of CO2 per year, the equivalent of the cumulative emissions of Sweden, Switzerland and Portugal.
With Generali announcing an end to new coal underwriting who will risk underwriting Ostrołęka C coal power plant in Poland?
Port of Rotterdam CEO Allard Castelein claims his port embraces the Paris agreement and that companies who are not Paris-proof have no future. Now is the time to show it by ending coal shipments from the port.
Germany’s Niederaussem coal plant is a vast, dirty relic, chewing up villages and crushing the country’s responsibilities on climate change.