Montenegro has scrapped plans to add a 254 MW unit at the Pljevlja coal-fired power plant, the country’s government has announced. Ljubo Knezevic, energy advisor...
Tag - Europe Without Coal
Polish police have detained a number of Greenpeace activists in the Polish port of Gdańsk. The climate protesters were arrested on September 9 as they stopped a vessel...
New figures from Eurostat have revealed that Poland accounts for 30 per cent of the European Union’s annual consumption of coal. In 2017, Poland burnt 73.8 million...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
In a major victory for local communities, the climate and clean energy, Poland’s Supreme Administrative Court has ruled that the long-contested Polnoc power plant will...
Four emerging European countries (the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary and Poland) have vetoed a landmark climate action plan that would have made the European Union...
Elektrownia Ostroleka, a company co-owned by energy giants Enea and Energa, has been awarded a 15-year contract to build and operate Ostroleka C, set to become...
“Right now, we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale. Our greatest threat in thousands of years. Climate change. If we don’t take action, the...
Twelve Greenpeace activists have been remanded in custody following a peaceful protest calling for an end to the use of coal. The 12, from Slovakia, the Czech Republic...
Sir David Attenborough delivered a stern speech on the opening day of the UN’s climate change summit in Katowice, Poland, warning of the impending threats global...
A new report, Last Gasp: The Coal Companies Making Europe Sick, has revealed that 10 companies produce two-thirds of all health-related problems caused by coal power...
Greenpeace Romania, with the support of ClientEarth, has submitted a legal challenge against a lifetime permit granted to one of Romania’s oldest and largest coal power...