Bangladesh scraps 10 coal-fired power plants
Bangladesh announced Sunday that it has scrapped at least 10 major coal-fired power plants as it seeks to scale up its power generation from renewable energy sources.
Read moreQueensland commits $2bn to boost local renewable energy jobs
Queensland will spend $2bn to boost renewable energy jobs, with the premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, describing the announcement as a “watershed moment” for the state’s economic development.
Read moreIEEFA: IEA’s net zero emissions by 2050 maps the huge increase in global ambition
Collective global government and corporate pledges, accelerating financial flows and straight economic gains make this a necessary, realistic and achievable outcome
Read moreCoal Transition in Jiu Valley, Romania
The Jiu Valley is laying the groundwork for life after coal.
Read morePost-mining communities in Central Europe are looking to the future whilst honouring the past
Communities in Central Europe are forging a new path that honours their mining heritage whilst embracing a regenerative future.
Read moreSolar provides fertile ground for ‘green’ hydrogen chemical plant
FinancialTimes.com: Clean production of the gas promises valuable role in decarbonising energy — if costs can be brought down The fertiliser plant owned by Fertiberia, in Puertollano, Spain, which will use ‘green’ hydrogen produced by solar power
Read moreVillage of Forestburg Greenhouse Project
This regional community in Canada is charting into unprecedented territories with their ambitious goal to transition from coal projects to greenhouse projects.
Read moreThe Village of Wabamun plans for life after coal
How will the Village of Wabamun, in Alberta Canada, overcome the roadblock of being coal-dependent for 50 years?
Read moreCommunity Action Teams in the Town of Hanna
This town is working with a consulting firm to create a sustainable economy in the future.
Read moreTransforming Australia’s Coal Country
What would it mean to create an alternative economy in the Hunter Valley that did not sacrifice the land, the water, and the climate?
The Hunter Valley’s history and its contested future are written in piles of coal buried since the swampy Permian period, when giant conifers fell and were pressed for hundreds of millions of years in layers of hard dark pages. Coal drew the English to Newcastle, but even before the English came, coal was part of the lives and stories of the Awabakal people of Newcastle and Lake Macquarie. Now that history is being scraped away, loaded onto ships, and sent across the world for burning. The black piles of coal on Newcastle’s Kooragang Island, waiting for ships, presage a dark future to come.