Turów, 30 August 2020 - Local citizens and people from across Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic are kayaking to the Turów mine today, in protest of the failure of their governments and EU institutions to uphold laws protecting them and their water from the mining and burning of coal.
The adoption of the coal phase-out law does not allow new coal plants to be built. Germany's last new coal project at Stade by Dow Chemical is cancelled.
With this we estimate an approximate additional 41 coal plants totalling 23 GW will close by 2030 and 15 plants totalling almost 19 GW are still meant to operate after 2030 and close by 2038 (with an option to close by 2035). This makes the German coal exit incompatible with the UN Paris climate agreement, whilst providing massive overcompensation to the coal industry for closing uneconomic plants very late.
A new set of digital tools were launched to highlight coal utilities and financial institutions that continue to hold back progress.
Energy company says it will close its coal power plant in Bremen & replace it with a gas-drive power plant built by Uniper and Wärtsilä Corporation.
Germany will not meet its 2020 climate target. Government commission presents final report, which recommends a phase-out of coal by 2038.
The Immerather Dom has become a symbol of the lost heritage and community destruction becasuee of the expansion of Germany’s vast Rhineland coal mines.
Europe's most polluting coal utility, RWE, is still planning to expand its two open pit coal mines in North Rhine Westphalia.
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.