Petar Vitanov: In Bulgaria, green and just transition issues have been swept below the floor for a long time. Now, they explode
- We all knew in 2020 what was going to happen. Industrial and energetical transitions have been imminent. But the...
Just transition
Dimitar Sabev: Bulgaria’s green transition is not transformative. It simply replaces Big Coal with Big Solar
- If Bulgaria thinks strategically, we could turn the very miserable coal region of Maritsa East, with all its high...
Dimitar Sabev: The heterogeneity of political and economic interests in Maritsa East carbon region creates obstacles to the just transition process
Dimitar Sabev is an economist at the Economic Research Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He holds a PhD...
Coal mixed with blood – not only in Eastern Ukraine [book review]
‘I will mix your blood with coal’ is a journey to a world we know very little about in Poland,...
The Turów case comes back to court
... but a full-fledged post-coal just transition strategy is still 'under construction'. (more…)
Lost Opportunity for a Just Transition: the Case of Turów Lignite Mine. PART THIRTEEN: Past Covered in Coal, Future Uncertain
Not only the residents of Bogatynia itself feel uncertain about what will happen to them. Less than five kilometers further...
Marin Florian: Farmers’ and hauliers’ protests in Romania are due to competitiveness crisis
Vladimir Mitev, The Bridge of Friendship, 16 January 2024 Marin Florian is the president of the Free Trade Unions of...
Jiu Valley: is there a life after coal? [GALLERY]
There were, so far, three key stages in history of Jiu Valley, a region between mountain ranges, in the very...
Lost Opportunity for a Just Transition: the Case of Turów Lignite Mine. PART TWELVE: Uncertainty
Bogatynia's mayor Wojciech Dobrołowicz canceled a meeting arranged with us at the last minute. We would not have the opportunity...
There is no just transition without trust and social capital [interview]
- Jiu Valley has been historically the region, where energy has been produced. There is infrastructure, there is local identity...
