Petition for saving drinking water on the border of Czechia…
18-02-2020
Municipalities in the Liberec Region are at risk of losing drinking water for approximately 30,000 inhabitants. They are endangered by the existing activities and expansion of the Polish lignite mine...
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Last coal plant under construction in Poland facing cancellation
14-02-2020
WARSAW, 14 February 2020 – Polish energy companies Enea SA and Energa SA have suspended financing for Ostrołęka C, the last coal plant under construction in Poland, citing difficulties obtaining...
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Polish farmers fight Europe's largest coal plant
10-02-2020
There is no sensible plan for transforming the coal mining regions in Poland. In fact even the discussion about mining region transformation and just transition has not really started in...
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Netherlands' $515 billion pension fund to accelerate cuts to fossil…
04-02-2020
The Netherlands’ biggest pension fund, ABP, intends to reduce the carbon footprint of its asset portfolio by 40% from 2015 levels by 2025. Its plans to exit coal and tar...
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Stop the money. Save the future!
30-01-2020
Want to know why preventing the finance industry from supporting the coal industry is crucial in times of the #ClimateEmergency?! Read that blog below: https://beyond-coal.eu/2020/01/21/stop-the-money-save-the-future/
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Poland’s coal appetite angers its neighbor
29-01-2020
The water crisis caused by Turów mine is already happening. Polish authorities took a shortcut and instead of making sure that the Czech and German neighbours agree with the solutions...
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Turów lignite mine and plant responsible for 80 premature deaths…
27-01-2020
Polish state-owned company PGE aims to get a new mining concession to expand the current Turów lignite open-pit mine in Bogatynia bordering Germany and Czechia. Further mine expansion would have...
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OPFs assets managed by companies such AEGON, Allianz, Aviva, Axa…
24-01-2020
Value of Open Pension Funds (OPFs) assets managed by known international insurance companies such AEGON, Allianz, Aviva, Axa, Generali, MetLife, Nationale Nederlanden declined in 2019 by over PLN 2.5 billion...
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Electricity production from lignite power plants in Poland at its…
23-01-2020
The coal’s contribution to Poland’s energy mix in 2019 reached the lowest level in recent history. Import of electricity from Sweden, Germany, Lithuania, Czechia and Ukraine as well as increased...
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We say Yes! to progress * Yes to non-invasive and environmentally friendly technology * Yes to renewable energy sources.
We say No! to environmental damage * No to the extraction and burning of fossil fuels * No to the construction of new opencast lignite mines.
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