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# coal

Posts in this archive: 36

- [My Country Pakistan Is Drowning](https://350.org/my-country-pakistan-is-drowning/) — As I write this, my country is drowning. In the past two weeks, Pakistan experienced cataclysmic floods triggered by unprecedented monsoon and glacial melting, killing over a thousand people and many more injured, destroying hundreds of thousands of homes and millions of acres of crops, and causing billions of dollars in damage.
- [“This is madness.”](https://350.org/this-is-madness/) — “Addiction to fossil fuels is mutually assured destruction.”
-UN Secretary-General
- [Complaint filed against JICA for concealing information in the US Stock Market](https://350.org/complaint-filed-against-jica-for-concealing-information-in-the-us-stock-market/) — This complaint marks the first time a governmental organization has been targeted by a whistleblower complaint filed with the SEC.
- [China’s pledge to end overseas coal funding is a step in the right direction](https://350.org/chinas-pledge-to-end-overseas-coal-funding/) — But a clear timeline must be laid out
- [Bye bye, coal: BNDES finally leaves the dirty mineral behind](https://350.org/bye-bye-coal-bndes-finally-leaves-the-dirty-mineral-behind/) — It’s a big day for the environment! The new director from BNDES, Bruno Aranha, begins the restructuring process for the bank to decarbonize its portfolios.
- [Will this be the end for Coal in Pakistan?](https://350.org/end-for-coal-in-pakistan/) — It is not clear whether approved coal projects will be canceled or that no new coal proposals will be added to the current development pipeline.
- [A Green New Deal for Bangladesh Must Exclude Gas](https://350.org/green-new-deal-for-bangladesh-must-exclude-gas/) — If the proposal from the Power Ministry to cancel all but five coal plants is accepted by the Prime Minister’s office, then it will herald a new direction not only in Bangladesh but in the wider region. But switching to LNG based power generation is not the right choice. Greenhouse gas emissions from the full LNG life cycle are just as devastating as coal.
- [Judge decision determines suspension of coal mine project in Brazil](https://350.org/judge-decision-determines-suspension-of-coal-mine-project-in-brazil/) — A federal judge maintained the suspension of the prior licensing process for the Guaíba Mine, in Brazil for not considering the impact on Indigenous people and disrespecting the OIT 169 Convention.
- [Never Forget Phulbari Massacre of 2006](https://350.org/phulbari-massacre-of-2006/) — 50,000 people marched in Phulbari, Bangladesh on August 26, 2006, to protest against the plan to start an open-pit coal mine in some of the most fertile land of Bangladesh. Paramilitary forces opened fire killing three protestors and injured over 200 people. Every year, August 26 is observed as the “Phulbari Day”.
- [Third fly ash dyke collapse in India’s Singrauli in eight months](https://350.org/third-fly-ash-dyke-collapse-in-indias-singrauli-in-eight-months/) — Repeated breaches of barriers holding back toxic coal sludge bring to the fore the negligence of the coal companies towards life and property. 
- [The astonishing success of fossil fuel fights in Europe](https://350.org/fossil-fuel-fights-in-europe-winning/)
- [We stand with the Mbya Guarani People as they resist coal.](https://350.org/stand-with-the-mbya-guarani-people/) — #ProtectClimateDefenders: Earlier this week armed men made death threats to a Chief of the Mbya Guarani People, from the Guadjayvi village, in South Brazil. Chief Claudio Acosta has been leading his community's resistance to a large coal mining project: the Guaiba Mine of COPELMI. We're encouraging people around the world to show their solidarity
- [Faces from the Phulbari – and why we strike](https://350.org/faces-from-the-phulbari-and-why-we-strike/) — When we strike, we take forward the stories of school students in Bangladesh, who went to a strike 13 years ago to protest coal mining in their home.
- [Win! Fonterra commits to no new coal boilers](https://350.org/win-fonterra-commits-to-no-new-coal-boilers/) — Fonterra’s announcement to build no new coal boilers is a win for the climate movement
- [The next chapter in the fight against coal in Germany: the fight for people's homes](https://350.org/fight-for-villages/) — If anyone thought the German government’s coal commission recommendation for a phaseout by 2038 was going to be the end of the nation’s coal story, they have another think coming.
- [Schools out: striking students build momentum for disruption in 2019](https://350.org/schools-out-striking-students-build-momentum-for-disruption-in-2019/)
- [We are the limits to the fossil fuel industry](https://350.org/we-are-the-limits-to-the-fossil-fuel-industry/) — This is the story of the Czech climate justice movement. A new generation of climate justice activists is stepping into the footsteps of the country's long resistance to coal mining.
- [In Sundarbans, Climate Change is already taking away houses and farmland](https://350.org/in-sundarbans-climate-change-is-already-taking-away-houses-and-farmland/) — Bangladesh is on the frontlines of climate change. Nowhere else is this more visible than on the banks of the Poshur River in the Mongla district of Bangladesh.
- [Coal & Boat 2017 - Farewell to the Last Lignite Coal Power Plant in Berlin](https://350.org/coal-boat-2017-farewell-to-the-last-lignite-coal-power-plant-in-berlin/) — After a wave of protests and resistance from civil society and the climate movement in Berlin, the last lignite-fired power plant in the city finally shut down on the 24th May 2017. Kohleausstieg Berlin and a number of climate, environmental and development organizations organized a celebration on boats in front of the power plant in order to bid farewell to the dirtiest of fossil fuels.
- [A Long March to Save Asia’s Largest Mangrove Forest In Bangladesh](https://350.org/a-long-march-to-save-asias-largest-mangrove-forest-in-bangladesh/)
- [The one when coal keeps burning me](https://350.org/the-one-when-coal-keeps-burning-me/)
- [Pacific Climate Warriors at the Alternatiba in Paris.](https://350.org/pacific-climate-warriors-at-the-alternatiba/)
- ["Artivism and Creativity" in Southeast Asia](https://350.org/40605/)
- [Ende Gelände: live webcast this Thursday](https://350.org/ende-gelande-live-webcast-this-thursday/)
- [Coal needs some kicking on its way out](https://350.org/coal-needs-some-kicking-on-its-way-out/)
- [Will Merkel cave in to big polluters?](https://350.org/will-merkel-cave-in-to-big-polluters/)
- [#Stopdigging up our communities](https://350.org/stopdigging/)
- [The Galilee Basin: 11 Reasons Why It Is The Most Insane Coal Project](https://350.org/the-most-insane-coal-project-in-the-world/)
- [The Great Barrier Reef vs India's Largest Bank](https://350.org/the-great-barrier-reef-vs-indias-largest-bank/)
- [A Message From The Pacific](https://350.org/a-message-from-the-pacific/)
- [Global spotlight on Europe as villages fight against dirty coal](https://350.org/global-spotlight-on-europe-as-villages-fight-against-dirty-coal/)
- [Churches at the Frontline of Climate Action](https://350.org/churches-at-the-frontline-of-climate-action/)
- [8,000 people urge chairman of Green Cross to quit funding environmental wreckage](https://350.org/8000-people-urge-chairman-of-green-cross-to-quit-funding-environmental-wreckage/)
- [Update From Australia's Frontline Fight Against Massive Coal](https://350.org/update-from-australias-frontline-fight-against-massive-coal/)
- [Yanukovich regime earns billions on illegal coal mining](https://350.org/yanukovich-regime-earns-billions-on-illegal-coal-mining/)
- [Be part of the ray of hope (and stop Europe's largest planned new coal plant)](https://350.org/ray-of-hope/)