17 NGOs call on Czech PM Babis to commit to a 2030 coal phaseout date
February 26, 2021The undersigned organisations call on Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and Czech Ministers to commit to a 2030 coal phase out date.
Articles by Just Transition
MOVIE: Just Transition in Eastern Wielkopolska, Poland
February 17, 2021No longer waiting for the Polish government, the coal region Eastern Wielkopolska has committed to achieve climate neutrality in 2040, a whole decade before the entire EU. Actors...
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Bulgaria’s Post-Coal Future: How Political Shortsightedness Dooms the Just Transition
January 28, 2021Analysis by Toma Pavlov In the EU’s poorest Member State, coal provides 40% of the electricity and the coal industry employs over 13,000 people. The government has resisted...
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Will Montenegro’s new government make energy transition a reality?
January 25, 2021The new Prime Minister of Montenegro, Zdravko Krivokapic, has pledged that his government’s programme will be based on a 4E approach, meaning energy, efficiency, economy and ecology, to...
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North Macedonia pioneering energy transition in the Western Balkans
January 19, 2021North Macedonia, whose national flag depicts a stylized yellow sun on a red field, has about 280 sunny days a year and about 1,500 kilowatt-hours (KWh) of solar...
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Kosovo at crossroads after top coal project falls through
January 12, 2021Kosovo has found itself at a crossroads after power developer ContourGlobal began an arbitration process, seeking compensation over a scrapped project to build a 500-megawatt coal-fired power plant....
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Polský uhelný region východní Velkopolsko chce být klimaticky neutrální do roku 2040
October 29, 2020Uhelný region Velkopolsko nečekal na rozhodnutí polské vlády a stanovil si ambiciózní datum útlumu těžby uhlí. Zavázal se dosáhnout klimatické neutrality o deset let před datem, které si...
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Representatives of coal mining towns will now be able to influence the transformation of coal regions
October 27, 2020Representatives of the Platform for Sustainable Development of Coal Towns of Donetsk Region became official members of the Coordination Center for Transformation of Coal Regions (the CC). The...
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The Solar in Kutë campaign: an initiative to turn Kutë into the first solar village in Albania
October 27, 2020The destruction of the Vjosa River for hydropower purposes is not necessary. There are environmentally friendly alternatives. The installation of solar panels to meet the energy needs of...
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Kampaň Solar in Kutë: iniciativa s cílem proměnit Kutë v první albánskou vesnici poháněnou solární energií
October 27, 2020Je zbytečné, aby byla řeka Vjosa zničena za účelem vybudování hydroelektrárny. Existují lepší alternativy, jež jsou k životnímu prostředí šetrnější. Organizace EcoAlbania, EuroNatur a RiverWatch spustili fundraisingovou kampaň,...
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