As financing dries up for planned 1GW Ostroleka C coal plant, Polish utilities should cancel the project in favour of renewables, not gas

Poland’s largest oil refiner, PKN Orlen, declared its preliminary readiness for direct financial involvement in the construction of the 1GW Ostroleka-C coal power project only if it is converted into […]

Read more 20/05/2020

Press release Energy transition Financing the transition

Joint discussion paper on methane emissions from the energy and petrochemical sectors

Methane is the most potent greenhouse gas after CO2 and has been regulated both by the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 and the Paris Agreement in 2015. Long underreported and mostly […]

Read more 12/05/2020

Report Energy transition

Letter to Vice-President Timmermans on Trans-European Energy Infrastructure Planning

Energy infrastructure is a key component in Europe’s fight against climate change. Investments must exclude any continued or new support for infrastructure based on fossil fuels or incompatible with nature […]

Read more 29/04/2020

Letter Energy transition

The last coal plant in Austria shuts down, leaving only seven EU member-states without plans to do the same by 2030 “deadline”

Austria has shut down its last coal-fired plant in Mellach (Styria) thereby ending its energy generation from coal. This makes Austria the eighth coal-free EU member state.

Read more 17/04/2020

Press release Energy transition

Estonia gives 125 million EUR for fossil fuel production despite the need to tackle both coronavirus and climate crises

The Estonian Government decided[1] to allocate 125 million EUR in aid to the state-owned company Eesti Energia for the construction of a shale oil plant. This decision is irresponsible in […]

Read more 03/04/2020

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Sustainable Europe Investment Plan and a Just Transition Mechanism: Short on climate neutrality

The Sustainable Europe Investment Plan (SEIP) is the financial arm of the European Green Deal, created for financing European economies’ transition to zero-carbon emissions and expected to mobilise at least […]

Read more 19/03/2020

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The road to 2050 should be fossil gas pipelines free

The transmission grid operators still assume, in a recently published draft scenario, that the EU’s gas demand by mid of the century will be roughly two thirds higher than the […]

Read more 03/03/2020

Op-Ed Energy transition

After suspending the financing of the new 1GW Ostroleka C coal plant, Polish utilities should cancel the project altogether

Yesterday evening the Polish utility companies Energa SA (Energa) and Enea S.A. (Enea) behind the project to build what has been called Poland’s “last (new) coal-fired power plant”, the 1GW […]

Read more 14/02/2020

Press release Energy transition

The phasing out of fossil gas should have started today

In stark contrast with EU’s climate commitments, the European Parliament greenlighted the fourth list of Projects of Common Interest, which includes 55 fossil gas infrastructure projects. Pipelines in Southeast and […]

Read more 12/02/2020

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Letter to the European Commission: TYNDP scenarios need to become Paris-Agreement and EU Green Deal truly compatible

While Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe and the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) welcome the progress of the ENTSOs in view of stakeholder engagement and their willingness to include a carbon budget […]

Read more 10/02/2020

Letter Energy transition