10 October 2022

Michal Zablocki

Michal joined Beyond Fossil Fuels in October 2022. Before that, he worked for several years in campaign, media, and policy teams at the environmental organisations ClientEarth and European Climate Foundation. He was a long-time Polish Press Agency journalist, serving as a climate and environment reporter in Warsaw and a foreign correspondent in Prague, Bratislava, and Moscow.

He was also a member of the Central-Eastern European policy think-tank Visegrad Insight, where he took care of CEE’s green agenda. He has an MA degree in linguistics from the University of Wroclaw, spent an academic scholarship at the University of Turin, and speaks five foreign languages. In his free time, he loves hiking and enjoys nature.

Michal is also the author of the non-fiction book on the Czech Republic: “It’s not a paradise. Essays on contemporary Czechia” published in Polish and Czech.

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04 April 2025

The world added the lowest amount of coal power in 20 years, as 44 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity came online in 2024, a strong signal for the continued decline of the most polluting fossil fuel, according to Global Energy Monitor’s definitive annual survey of the global coal fleet.

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01 April 2025

Power utility Helen is decommissioning its 177 MW Salmisaari coal plant today, bringing Finland to the brink of a full coal phase-out four years ahead of schedule.

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19 March 2025

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