Media

Briefings
Gas timeline
Opinion
Press releases
Reports
Stories

Story

Opinion

Briefing

Report

Press Release

Infographic

Turów would avert many disasters by saying goodbye to coal

by Beyond Fossil Fuels - 14 May 2024

On 13 March 2024, environmental activists in Poland won a court case against the Turów coal mine. The ruling, handed down by a regional administrative court in Warsaw, invalidated the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) required by PGE, Poland’s largest power producer, to secure its mining licence until 2044.

Freeing Europe from fossil fuels

by Beyond Fossil Fuels - 19 June 2023

Reducing gas and coal by a third is possible by 2025 and gaining independence from both can happen by 2035.

Renewables + Energy Savings = BFF❤

by Beyond Fossil Fuels - 29 March 2023

Just as we expect every last one of the 157 coal plants remaining in Europe will end up with pre-2030 closure dates in the coming years, we also expect that by 2035 our power sector will be based completely on renewable energy instead of fossils. That is what we will campaign for: going Beyond Fossil Fuels.

A question of will: New IPCC report shows we have the tools to avoid climate chaos

by Beyond Fossil Fuels - 08 April 2022

Since Russia’s late February invasion of Ukraine, though much of the world’s attention has been gripped by the bravery of its defenders and the suffering of its civilians, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has also released two sweeping assessments thoroughly detailing the perilous state of our planet’s health.

NO REASON FOR EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO GREENLIGHT POLISH HARD COAL SUBSIDIES

by ostyx - 02 December 2021

The Polish government wants to launch a massive rescue mission for the country’s loss-making hard coal mining, with the hope […]

Coal accelerating to history – but our job is not done after COP26

by Beyond Fossil Fuels - 18 November 2021

The Glasgow climate negotiations closed with a first ever inclusion of coal and fossil fuels in the Glasgow climate pact. […]

Europe’s coal phaseout: we’re halfway there

by Beyond Fossil Fuels - 23 March 2021

It has been five years since the UN Paris Climate Agreement, and in that short time, half of Europe’s coal plants have closed, or have announced pre-2030 closure plans. 2030 is now the key date for coal in Europe and the OECD, as it’s the latest possible moment these countries can close their coal plants and still meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.

European coal in structural decline

by Beyond Fossil Fuels - 24 June 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has had great impacts on all aspects of society, in the energy industry, the economic shutdown has led to reductions in CO2 emissions.