Clean energy solutions aren’t only good news for the climate, they also reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, which are almost always found lurking at the roots of...
Tag - Europe Beyond Coal
Campaign groups want an immediate ban on all coal, oil and fossil gas imports from Russia. EU nations have now spent an estimated 60 billion euros on Russian coal, oil...
Despite the energy crunch caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Romania has become the latest country in emerging Europe to bring forward its exit from coal. The...
As the EU mulls ending imports of Russian coal, the call for more renewables in the bloc’s energy mix grows louder. When Lithuania on April 2 announced that it had...
Measures to protect water supplies – included in the deal – are insufficient and will not work, say locals. The Czech government has angered local people by...
The European Union wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55 per cent by 2030. Poland is currently threatening to stall legislation that would make the target...
Czechia will quit coal by 2033, and wants to boost its nuclear energy capacity. Environmental groups say the plan is not bold enough and risks missing the...
A coal exit date of 2038 or 2040 is ‘inadequate’ say environmentalists. Hit by a political crisis that has left the country without a government for more...
The European Union has pledged to go carbon neutral by 2050, and so have the countries of the Western Balkans. But as air pollution in the region gets worse, its...
North Macedonia is currently the only country in the Western Balkans to have confirmed that it will exit coal. A new report by the Centre for Research on Energy and...
Hope at last for the long-suffering inhabitants of North Macedonia’s capital Skopje, Europe’s most polluted city, as the country commits to exiting coal by...
Polish authorities claim that they are prepared to close Europe’s most polluting power plant by the end of 2036. Not soon enough, say environmental campaigners. Poland’s...
Coal is increasingly redundant in Romania’s energy mix, generating less than a quarter of its electricity. In its latest National Resilience and Recovery Plan, the...