10 January 2020

Alastair Clewer

Alastair joined Beyond Fossil Fuels in May 2019. He holds a master’s degree in International Development and has coordinated multinational communication actions for several Directorates-General of the European Commission on issues related to climate change, clean energy transition, disaster risk reduction, human rights, and humanitarian aid. Alastair has previously worked in academia, analysing the climate impacts of European food systems, and in politics and the music industry. He has a keen interest in processes of social change, particularly the utility of prefigurative politics as a scalable means of social transformation, and the viability of constructing chains of equivalence across civil society and activist networks.

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02 December 2023

Today, 10 members including the United States, Czech Republic, Kosovo, Cyprus, Norway and Dominican Republic have joined the Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA), underscoring that even the most coal-heavy countries worldwide are looking to a future beyond fossil fuels. 

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27 October 2023

On the eve of the Rugby World Cup final in Paris, the tournament’s  biggest sponsor, Société Générale, is under scrutiny for its long-time support of Energetický a průmyslový holding (EPH).

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31 August 2023

Warsaw’s Administrative Court has suspended proceedings on Turów coal mine’s sham environmental impact assessment (EIA) that its owner PGE requires for its licence renewal. The verdict leaves local communities, already battered by water shortages, subsidence and dust, to stare down the barrel of a further twenty years of mining, while they await the claimants’ appeal. 

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28 August 2023

As devastating wildfires continue to ravage Europe as a consequence of the climate emergency, German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling operational wind turbines near its sprawling Garzweiler open pit coal mine in North Rhine Westphalia with the intention of excavating a further 15 to 20 million tonnes of coal.