German government breaks law to let coal keep polluting
August 20, 2018One year after the publication of new rules on coal pollution, the German government has broken its own laws by failing to incorporate the new EU limits into...
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GUE/NGL: ‘We strongly criticise Coal Platform projects which benefit the coal industry’
July 17, 2018just-transition.info has asked all groups in the European Parliament for their position on Just Transition. We will publish these responses in the order we get them (whether the...
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S&D: The EU needs a Just Transition Strategy and a dedicated JT Fund
July 16, 2018just-transition.info has asked all groups in the European Parliament for their position on Just Transition. We will publish these responses in the order we get them (whether the...
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The Platform for Coal Regions in Transition
July 11, 2018Will it deliver for the local communities?
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Just Transition not just a transition!
July 10, 2018The shift from coal to a low-emission or zero-emission economy is now an inevitable reality due to recent changes in European environmental legislation (ETS reform, Industrial Emissions Directive,...
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Promises for coal jobs in southeastern Europe are dangerously out of touch with reality
June 29, 2018Most of Europe has started phasing coal out of its power sector, but Balkan politicians persistently claim that building new coal plants will bring jobs in the lignite...
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The hidden pitfalls of the Just Transition narrative: A response
June 28, 2018In his recent think piece published in the Just Transition(s) Online Forum, Tadzio Müller questions the “pitfalls” of the Just Transition narrative and argues that it risks wasting...
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Bulgarian authorities, forced to think about Just Transition
June 13, 2018The closure of the largest underground mine in Bulgaria, Bobov Dol in the southwest of the country, means Bulgarian authorities are finally forced to think about Just Transition....
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Czechia: Good practices of transforming coal mining regions inspire in CEE
June 12, 2018At the end of May, a group of Polish, Slovak, Hungarian and Bulgarian visitors – mayors, local government bureaucrats, NGO members and trade unionists – came to the...
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Slovakia: HBP coal company gets in ahead on benefiting from Coal Platform
June 8, 2018In the Trencin region in Slovakia, the selection of projects to be supported via the Platform is until now circumventing the participatory process that was initiated by local...
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