One of Europe’s greatest environmental disasters is taking place in the Lausitz, in the German-Polish border region...The Swedish energy corporation Vattenfall is planning to continue to expand brown coal mining operations in the German part of the Lausitz. This would mean that the region’s coal-fired power plants, which are among the dirtiest in Europe, would continue to burn climate-damaging brown coal, also known as lignite, until well beyond 2050. A disaster is unfolding on the Polish side too. The Polish state-owned company PGE is planning to exploit the region’s gigantic coal deposits and build a huge new coal-fired power plant. If these plans are implemented, Germany, Poland and Europe will fail to meet even the weakest climate goals; thousands of people will lose their homes and the energy revolution will be effectively undermined. This is why we are now sending a powerful message to 
politicians and coal corporations. The first international anti-coal-chain is calling out, loud and clear: Stop brown coal – Save the energy revolution!