Press
You are welcome to report about our action, in the days before or right from site of action. We are happy to give interviews. It’s also possible to accompany activists into the action.
Press contact: press[at]decoalonize-europe.net
Press releases
8.1 Where does the money come from?
Providers of capital are key to the planning, permitting, development, and operation of coal mines and the construction of power stations. But it is often very difficult to detect which financiers are supporting the climate-damaging projects of the coal industry. The...
8.2 Insuring climate catastrophe
Insurance companies also play an important role in the financing structure of the value chain around hard coal. In the debate on the climate crisis they are often regarded as ‘saviours’, as they insure against financial losses caused by extreme weather events. But...
8.3 Government support
Many European governments continue to support and subsidise coal mining through a number of different mechanisms. They include subsidies for capacity mechanisms that are meant to guarantee security of energy supply when needed, in return for additional payments to...
8.4 Bettercoal
Bettercoal – founded by RWE, Eon, Vattenfall, Électricité de France, GDF Suez, ENEL, and Dong Energy in 2012 – is an initiative of several European energy companies which has set itself the supposed goal of a responsible global coal supply chain through guidelines for...
9.1 Why technology will never solve the problem
When confronted with critiques of the true cost of coal, the coal industry and their friends in governments often refer to technological advances that allow for emission reductions, compensatory activities (so-called offsets) like tree planting, or investments in...
9.2 Catch me if you can – Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
Big industry tries everything to save their CO2-intensive way of production. One false solution it offers is Carbon Capturing and Storage (CCS). The theory is that at facilities producing a lot of CO2, like fossilfuelled power plants or cement factories, the...
9.3 Hydrogen is hypocrisy
Steel-making is a climate catastrophe in itself: in the process, hard coal is burned and CO2 emitted. In fact, it is one of the most carbon-intensive industries in the world. In addition, most steel is produced for emission-heavy products like cars or the Nord Stream...
9.4 Conversion from coal to gas and biomass
That the coal phase-out is under way in much of Europe – albeit far too slow – should be unequivocally good news for the climate. Sadly, this is not always the case: a growing number of coal plants, rather than being shut down, are being converted to, or replaced...
9.5 Renewable energy: a true alternative?
In our struggles against the coal industry it is easy to cling onto the promises of renewable energy as an easy alternative. Solar, wind, and thermal as ‘clean’ alternatives to dirty coal – these promises are propagated all around us: by NGOs, governments, business...
9.6 Still not loving nuclear
More recently, the nuclear and there is currently no feasible solution for industry has been working hard to sell us nuclear power plants as a green method of energy production and the solution to the climate crisis. Their main argument: nuclear power plants do not...