Coal Atlas - Facts and figures on a fossil fuel

Coal Atlas

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Our Coal Atlas contains the latest facts and figures on the use of coal and its environmental and social consequences. With more than 60 detailed graphics, the atlas illustrates the coal industry’s impact on nature, health, labour, human rights and politics.

More on coal and climate change

Making a killing

Climate change is already here. With less than 1°C of global warming, the impacts of climate change are already severe on the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. The report is released by the Carbon Levy Project and outlines several cases where developing countries have suffered real loss and damage from climate change impacts.

Greening the Heartlands of Coal in Europe

Germany’s energy transition, or Energiewende, has been a success story. But one lesson to be drawn is that energy policy decisions taken in one EU member state affect other EU member states as well. For these reasons, the Heinrich Böll Foundation initiated a project entitled “The German Energy Transition in the European Context”.

Perspectives Asia: Copper, Coal and Conflict

In this issue, our authors report on conflicts stemming from coal and copper mining in Afghanistan, India, and Myanmar. The articles on Cambodia and on Inner Mongolia in China illustrate how the traditional economic models and ways of life of indigenous populations suffer from the unrestrained exploitation of raw materials.

Further publications

Bodenatlas 2015

Bodenatlas 2015

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Zum internationalen Jahr des Bodens präsentiert der Bodenatlas 2015 Daten und Fakten über die Bedeutung und den Zustand von Land, Böden und Ackerflächen in Deutschland, Europa und weltweit. In bewährter Tradition bietet der Bodenatlas in zahlreichen Grafiken und Textbeiträgen einen aktuellen Einblick in den Zustand und die Gefährdung der Böden, von denen wir leben.

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