Executives from the European coal industry met in June at the annual meeting of the European Association for Coal and Lignite (EURACOAL) to discuss the industry’s strategic direction against the backdrop of the UNFCCC Paris Agreement of December 2015 and the EU’s related commitment to a 40 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Prior to the meeting, EURACOAL President, ...
Read More »On 25th January 2016, Wolfgang Cieslik, member of the Board of Management at STEAG GmbH, Essen, and President of the German Coal Importer Association (VDKi), Hamburg, was elected the new President of EURACOAL, the international interest group of the coal industry. He will serve a period of office of one year, replacing Zygmunt Łukaszczyk, Chairman of the Board of Katowicki ...
Read More »On 9th October 2015 the European Association for Coal and Lignite (EURACOAL) released a report on the funding of anti-coal campaigns by NGOs. It finds that a wave of money is flooding into the EU policy space from a small number of super-rich donors, many from the US, who hope to influence EU climate and energy policy in favour of ...
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In January Dr. Christian Ehler MEP and Prof. Jerzy Buzek MEP hosted the first European Round Table on Coal of the new EU-Parliament. MEPs from across the Union came along to better understand coal and the contribution it makes to a secure and reliable energy supply: 28 % of the EU’s electricity is produced from coal. Prof. Buzek expressed his pleasure ...
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