
A melting Pot(t) for transition
April 11, 2018In the Ruhr area in western Germany steel melts just as cities do and traditions must. Transforming the industrial heart of Germany has been a decades-long experience. While...
Read moreIn the Ruhr area in western Germany steel melts just as cities do and traditions must. Transforming the industrial heart of Germany has been a decades-long experience. While...
Read moreAleksander Szpor and Konstancja Ziółkowska from IBS (Institute for Structural Research) provide the overview of the Polish coal mining sector transformation since the 1990s until 2015 – IISD...
Read moreText and photos by Michalis Prodromou It’s been only a few weeks since the WWF Greece team reached out to several stakeholders in the lignite sector in Western...
Read moreInterview with Montserrat Mir, elected confederate secretary of ETUC
Read MoreIn 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...
Read moreUntil 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...
Read moreIn 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...
Read moreWe’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...
Read moreText 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...
Read moreThere 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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