‘We can’t have a low-cost Just Transition’
March 19, 2018Interview with Montserrat Mir, elected confederate secretary of ETUC
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Local community protests against new coal mining projects in Upper Silesia
March 12, 2018In Imielin, a 9,000-strong Silesian town, local residents and authorities are protesting plans by Polska Grupa Górnicza (PGG) to start coal extraction in the Imielin-North field, which overlaps...
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How do former miners in Czechia and Slovakia see the coal phaseout?
March 6, 2018Until recently, the term ‘coal phaseout’ was tabu in Central Europe. But things are changing in Czechia and Slovakia. Hard coal mines are continuously shutting down because of...
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Strategy for coal mining regions in Czechia brings hope
March 3, 2018In 2,500-person-strong Horní Jiřetín, north-west Czechia, close to the German border, mayor Vladimír Buřt stands atop the local church, looking beyond the mix of silver rooftops and greenery...
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Northeast Hungary: between coal nostalgia and just transition
February 21, 2018We’ve gotten used to hearing bad news from BAZ (Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén) county in the northeast corner of Hungary: many of the 700,000 people who used to live there moved...
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It’s time for Rotterdam to rethink its role as Europe’s main coal pusher
February 19, 2018Text by Willem Wiskerke, Greenpeace Netherlands, published first on beyond-coal.eu Photo by Flickr user jpmm downloaded from here. The political debate in Germany about the future of coal...
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Opportunities for Just Transition in South Africa
February 19, 2018There has been talk about a just transition, particularly regarding climate change, clean energy production and environmental protection for years. The discourse has, however, mainly been confined to...
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An action plan for Upper’s Nitra’s post-coal development
February 6, 2018Slovak local, regional and national authorities have started working on an Action Plan for the post-coal development of the Upper Nitra region, Slovakia’s mining area and one of...
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No plans to phase out coal in Romania, despite diverse energy mix
February 2, 2018Coal accounts for about a quarter of energy produced in Romania, which is a net electricity exporter. Compared to countries like Poland where coal dependency is much higher,...
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The Just Transition Research Collaborative (JTRC)
January 19, 2018Text by Edouard Morena Photo by Berber Verpoest The post-COP21 context was marked by the proliferation of references to the Just Transition (JT) in policy circles, among NGOs,...
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