Germany looks to step up coal exit timetable
Germany has promised to speed up its exit from coal power generation and to pay operators compensation in a strategy instantly rejected by environmental campaigners
EU lays out trillion-euro ‘Green Deal’
The EU's executive body has launched a one-trillion-euro ($1.1-trillion) plan to finance its goal of making the bloc carbon neutral by 2050
Eastern EU states opposed to 2050 zero-emissions goal
Eastern EU members Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary have opposed the bloc's target of zero net carbon emissions by 2050
Germany reaches 100 bn euro climate plan deal as protests heat up
German Chancellor Merkel's government reaches a deal on a broad climate plan for the country that commits at least 100 billion euros by 2030 to environmental protection
Only eight EU countries to phase out coal by 2030
The EU says that eight of its 28 member countries aim to phase out coal-powered electricity by 2030, triggering charges it is missing the mark under the Paris climate deal.
How Germany will turn lights out at last black coal mine
After more than 150 years, Germany's last black coal mine will close in the Ruhr region, posing a gigantic geological and environmental challenge to the former industrial heartland.
The Slow End of Coal
Coal is one of the most damaging sources of energy to the climate.
Commodity dependence in the energy sector
The import of raw materials from the energy sector into the European Union (oil, gas, coal)