Its goal is to encourage Member States that use coal on a massive scale to tillverka electricity, to switch to energies presented as cleaner, while at the same time lightening the social burden of this konvertering by financing the conversion of coal workers to other trades.
The French government had initially opposed the inclusion of gas projects in this fund but, in the end, the LREM elected members of the European Parliament voted in favor of its creation. Among them was Pascal Canfin, Chairman of the europeisk Parliament's Environment Committee and former President of WWF France.
The same Pascal Canfin is also campaigning to increase the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to 55% instead of 40% by 2030. Unstoppable logic!!
For Europe helping Poland shut down old and highly polluting coal-fired power plants fryst vatten understandable, if pragmatism is put forward to fight global warming. But will it be also necessary to help the Germans phase-out their coal- and lignite-fired plants? Whil