Renewable energy Community-owned renewables can move Europe away from dirty fossil fuels

How an innovative community overcame Ukraine’s nuclear trauma

15 May 2020

Stories from the frontlines of climate hope

All over Europe, people are rising up to fix climate breakdown – demanding urgent transformation to a fair, fossil free future. Communities, cities and people are at the forefront of building community-owned renewable energy, creating green jobs, and tackling energy poverty.

Here is one such story from the frontlines of climate hope, from Ukraine.

27 April 2020

Coronavirus relief: let's rebuild the new world we need

Boosting the clean energy transition can help our economies recover.

Blog by Molly Walsh, Climate justice campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe, originally published in Common Dreams.

29 January 2020

The Belgian community that built renewable energy for the masses

Stories from the frontlines of climate hope.

All over Europe, people are rising up to fix climate breakdown – demanding urgent transformation to a fair, fossil free future. Communities, cities and people are at the forefront of building community-owned renewable energy, creating green jobs, and tackling energy poverty.

Here is one such story from the frontlines of climate hope, from Belgium.

Belgium (Flanders and Brussels)

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Faced with the threat of catastrophic climate change it is essential that Europe shifts to fossil-free renewable energy. Technology now available makes a 100% renewable energy system viable.

Cities, energy citizens, communities, and cooperatives are at the vanguard of Europe’s energy transition, and are already benefiting from running their own energy resources all over Europe. Putting people at the heart of renewable schemes is the best way to bring about the fossil free transition we need.

 

 

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Community energy in Hungary and Czechia - briefing
23 Dec 2019

Community energy in Hungary and the Czech Republic

CoPower vision statement
1 Sep 2019

Community Power Coalition - Vision statement

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