Europe’s Gas Power Plant Overbuild Undermines Climate Credibility
November 15, 2024 12:01 amAs European countries position themselves as global climate leaders at COP29, a new briefing from Beyond Fossil Fuels reveals a […]
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Europe’s Gas Plant Overbuild Threatens to Undercut Climate Credibility
November 15, 2024 12:01 amBAKU, 15 November, 2024 – As European countries position themselves as global climate leaders at COP29, a new briefing from […]
European countries delay coal phase-outs and gamble on fossil gas amidst push for decarbonised power
December 7, 2023 10:48 amDespite EU negotiators pushing for a decarbonised global power system in the 2030s at the climate negotiations currently taking place at COP28 in Dubai, Italy, Hungary and North Macedonia have postponed their coal phase-out commitments by several years.
Italy’s Brindisi Sud to stop burning coal in 2025
June 11, 2021 5:06 pmEnel will stop burning coal at its Brindisi Sud coal power plant in 2025, in line with Italy's 2025 coal exit plan. Brindisi Sud is one of Europe's 30 most polluting coal plants in terms of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
Help clean up Europe’s industry!
February 2, 2021 9:39 pmWe're running out of time to address climate change, and while the EU is doing more and more to act on it and clean up industry, one of its key laws to cut industrial pollution does not cover carbon emissions! This has to change, and we have an opportunity to do it right now!
Coal phase-out in Italy
October 1, 2017 4:31 pmThe Italian government announced a coal phase-out by 2025 as part of the National Energy Strategy in October 2017.
A2A’s coal power plant located in Brescia, northern Italy, closed.
April 21, 2020 6:34 pmThe initial deadline set by A2A was October 2022, but the farewell to coal anticipated ministerial indications by three years.
Enel/Endesa utility briefing
December 4, 2018 11:24 amThe briefing gives an overview of the two utilities’ power mix and existing coal plant fleet; Enel owns a 70.1% majority share in Endesa.
Coal plant management faces reckoning in Italian court over deadly pollution
January 14, 2020 10:03 amItalian civil society groups will testify in court today against the management of Tirreno Power’s Vado Ligure coal plant, who is on trial for illegally operating heavily-polluting units between 2000 and 2014.