Just Transition is possible! The case of Ruhr (Germany)
April 11, 2018Is there a socially acceptable phasing out process for coal mining? What are the impacts on the employees and is there such a thing as a “socially responsible...
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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...
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The tranformation of the Polish coal sector
April 5, 2018Aleksander 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...
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Planning for the Just Transition in Western Macedonia (Greece)
March 21, 2018Text 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...
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‘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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