13 November 2017
Kathrin Gutmann and Bruce Nilles from the Europe Beyond Coal and the Beyond Coal sister campaigns talk in Bonn during the COP23 climate negotiations about the need to phase out coal by 2030 at the latest, and the momentum we currently have to make it happen sooner.
27 March 2023
When we first launched Europe Beyond Coal in 2017, Europe had 328 coal plants and only 3 countries with plans to quit coal. Fast forward to today and coal is in decline. Only 157 coal plants are left without a 2030 closure date and 23 countries are already coal-free or have a plan to quit coal. To solve the cost of living, security and climate crises, we must transform Europe’s power sector so that it is free of fossil fuels and based fully on renewable energy by 2035.
28 November 2022
Calling Time on Coal: Eastern Greater Poland [video]
Calling Time on Coal: Eastern Greater Poland, tells the story of how one Polish region steeped in coal has rejected the Polish government’s strategy to keep burning coal until 2049 in favour of blazing its own path beyond coal by 2030 to build a brighter future based upon clean, renewable energy.
16 July 2019
German utility RWE is Europe’s worst polluter, and one of the biggest threats to the climate and to a fast enough coal phase out on the continent.
16 November 2021
Fast Fish – Pioneers of Spain’s energy transition
See how one former mining town in Spain has set about adapting to this post-coal world by retrofitting one of its disused coal mines to produce emission-free heat for the community.
