In 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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Until 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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In 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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We’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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Text 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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There 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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Slovak 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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Coal 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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Text 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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Text by Claudia Ciobanu All photos by Berber Verpoest The Dutch government promised a coal phaseout by 2030. But unions worry coal workers might get a raw deal....
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