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...
Ecology and green politics
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...
The gospel of growth has fallen into the hands of the devil
Dimitar Sabev, Economic Life (Bulgaria), 12 September 2024 Europe has done many things over the years in the name of...
Olympic Games in Paris: Revolution or same old story?
From mid-July to early September, Paris is hosting well over ten thousand athletes and twice as many journalists — first...
Romania’s ecological vacuum and the absence of left progressive politics in the EU Elections
Andrei Constantin Gudu, transform! europe, 23 April 2024 Is there any politician who doesn’t love nature? At any rate, Romanian...
Left behind: Bulgaria in need of a socialist struggle for the climate
Stoyo Tetevenski, transform! europe, 23 April 2024 Bulgaria’s left is in shambles. Since capitalism was restored in 1989, both political...
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,...
Roșia Montana: victory of solidarity over greed [AUDIO]
Stephanie Roth - the strategist behind the campaign against the Roșia Montana gold mining project in Romania - is a...
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...
