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CoalWire 292, September 19, 2019

Indian state rejects more coal plants; Montenegro axes lignite plant expansion; NSW rejects mine; Greek court win; South Korean advisory body proposes extending summertime coal shutdown; Swedish consortium promotes fossil-fuel-free steel plant.

CoalWire 291, September 12, 2019

GE’s coal spree; Botswana abandons coal railway; Eskom unveils initial steps to cut pollution.

CoalWire 290, September 5, 2019

Court freezes German lignite mine; Polish mine defeated; hydrogen challenge to metallurgical coal; Brazil opens door to more coal plants; Greece flags lignite phase-out.

CoalWire 289, August 29, 2019

Legal rebuff for US export port; Turkish coal bubble bursts; coal company laments higher insurance costs.

Webinar Invitation for New Report on BRI Investments from Friends of the Earth US

Friends of the Earth US is pleased to publish a new report assessing the environmental and social performance of Chinese banks’ investments in Belt and Road countries. The report, “Investing in a Green Belt and Road? Assessing the Implementation of China’s Green Credit Guidelines Abroad,” examines Chinese overseas investments through the lens of the Green Credit Guidelines, a 2012 Chinese bank policy which obligates banks to comply with host country law and international norms and standards in overseas investments.

New reports : Who are the banks and investors still financing coal plant development ?

BankTrack, urgewald, FoE France, Rainforest Action Network and Re:Common, with the support of 16 partners around the world, have just launched this morning two new reports revealing who are the banks and investors still financing the top 120 coal plant developers identified by urgewald in the Global Coal Exit List, and responsible for 2/3 of the global coal plant pipeline.

[DCJActivists] The Big Bad Fix – The Case Against Geoengineering

he report warns that political and economic elites in key emitting countries are turning to geoengineering as a would-be technological fix for the climate crisis, at the same time they refuse to break with an economic model based on fossil fuels and high emissions.

New report on public financing for coal and renewables projects

One year after the Paris Agreement entered into force, are countries really shifting their financial flows to be consistent with a low-greenhouse-gas-emissions future? Our latest report, Power Shift, compares G20 governments’ financing for coal projects and renewable energy projects abroad. Our findings indicate that countries are still financing more coal than renewables projects abroad. Some progress has been made in shifting flows away from dirty energy like coal and into clean energy projects like solar and wind, but more needs to be done.