Europe Beyond Coal

Wer Wir Sind

2020 hat die deutsche Bundesregierung ein Gesetz erlassen, mit dem das Kohlezeitalter bis 2038 verlängert werden soll. Menschen in ganz Deutschland setzen sich dafür ein, vor Ort Kohlekraftwerke früher abzuschalten und bedrohte Dörfer vor dem Kohlebagger zu retten. Die Kampagne „Kohlecountdown“ unterstützt sie dabei, damit der Ausstieg bis spätestens 2030 kommt.

Die Tage der Kohle sind gezählt. Gemeinsam mit einer engagierten Zivilgesellschaft streiten wir für mutige und gerechte Pläne, um das Energiesystem erneuerbar zu machen. Je früher, desto besser.

Das Team von Kohlecountdown ist Teil des europäischen Anti-Kohle-Netzwerkes „Europe Beyond Coal“ mit Büro in Berlin-Mitte. Finanziert wird die Arbeit durch Förderung der „European Climate Foundation“ und der „ClimateWorks Foundation“.

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Das Team

Fabian Hübner (Campaigner)

E-Mail: fabian[at]beyond-coal.eu

Meri Pukarinen

International Campaign Coordinator

Meri has over a decade of experience on climate and energy issues, from grassroots to international coordination. She has worked with Friends of the Earth in Finland, and with Greenpeace in Europe, Asia and internationally. Meri holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civic Activities and Youth Work, as well as an MSc in Environmental Policy and Regulation. Meri’s role includes strengthening the campaign’s reach and impact beyond Europe, and she brings with her a practical approach to finding campaigning solutions in different cultural and political contexts.

Loukia Goni

Digital Engagement Officer

Loukia is a passionate digital communications professional combining theoretical and technical expertise in communication and marketing fields and a keen interest in people-powered campaigning. Prior to joining our team in November 2019, she worked for Greenpeace Greece for almost 8 years, first as a Web design & Digital Mobilisation Specialist and then as a Digital Mobilisation Manager, focusing on developing impactful digital engagement strategies. She studied Mass Media and Communication in Athens and holds a MSc in Design & Digital Media from the University of Edinburgh

Suzanne Schenk

Network and Finance Coordinator

Suzanne has a background in environmental campaigning, building NGO coalitions and strategic grant management. Her role involves further connecting and strengthening the network of the Europe Beyond Coal campaign. She joined EBC in August 2019 from the Changing Markets Foundation, where she campaigned on circular economy issues. Previously, she worked at the European Climate Foundation on energy efficiency and at the World Future Council on cities and climate change. She is passionate about bringing people together to accelerate climate justice. Suzanne speaks Dutch, English and German, and can get along in French and Italian.

Duygu Kutluay

Campaigner

Duygu studied Political Science and International Relations at Bogazici University, Istanbul and holds a masters degree in International Economic Relations from the University of Konstanz, Germany. She started working on intercultural learning and communication at AFS Turkey as Organisational Development Director before changing jobs to be the Deputy Head of International Relations with the TEMA Foundation. For the last three years, she worked as the Climate and Energy Campaigner for Greenpeace Med, mostly focusing on climate change and energy transition issues.

Kaarina Kolle

Senior Finance and Utility Coordinator (Western utilities)

Kaarina works at WWF European Policy Office as the Europe Beyond Coal Finance and Utility Coordinator. Prior to this, she worked at WWF Finland on climate, energy, corporations and financial markets. She started her career at the UNEP Brussels Liaison Office and the European Commission in the Directorate-General Climate Action, focusing on international climate finance. Kaarina holds an MSc in Environmental Policy from Oxford University. She is a dual citizen of Finland and Germany. She speaks Finnish, English, German, French and Swedish.

Alaistair Clewer

Communications Officer

Alastair joined EBC in May 2019. He holds a master’s degree in International Development and has coordinated multinational communication actions for several Directorate-Generals of the European Commission on issues relating to climate change; clean energy transition; disaster risk reduction; human rights and humanitarian aid. Alastair has previously worked in academia, analyzing the climate impacts of European food systems, and in politics and the music industry. He has a keen interest in processes of social change, in particular, the utility of prefigurative politics as a scalable means of social transformation, and the viability of constructing chains of equivalence across civil society and activist networks.

Emilia Ochoa

Office and Digital Administrator

Emilia holds a master’s degree in Social Sciences and before joining our team as Office and Web Administrator she worked in communications for a UNDP agency. Previously, she finished her journalistic studies in Germany and interned in different Mexican Missions, assisting cultural and bilateral cooperation projects. She is passionate about learning and communicating on climate change and is particularly interested in creative approaches to engaging on climate action. She speaks Spanish, German, English, French and Portuguese.

Zala Primc

Campaigner

Zala studied Social Sciences in Ljubljana and Lisbon and worked for various student, worker and human rights organisations, such as Amnesty International, before she became engaged in environmental campaigning. She joined the Europe Beyond Coal Secretariat in 2019 after being an international project lead for Greenpeace Central and Eastern Europe. She is passionate about progressive social change, climate justice, direct democracy and supporting local communities and grassroots movements. She speaks English, German and Slovene.

Elena Bixel

Campaigner

Elena has been part of Europe-wide coordination efforts of NGOs in the field of coal since 2012. In her role as a campaigner with Europe Beyond Coal she coordinates the network’s plant-by-plant and mine campaign, recently focusing on phasing out coal in district heating. Previously, she has worked as Coal Policy Officer with CAN Europe where she contributed towards building the Europe Beyond Coal campaign, and with Climate Alliance Germany. Elena has been passionate about the well-being of our planet and driving societal change since childhood and studied Political Science and Human Geography in Heidelberg, Granada and Berlin.

Greg McNevin

Communications Director

Formerly strategic communications director for the Global Call for Climate Action and a long-time media relations specialist with Greenpeace International, Greg has worked on human rights and environmental issues around the world, covering issues such as oceans, whaling, deforestation, climate change, coal mining, and nuclear power. He has a keen interest in the intersection of activism, technology, and visual arts, and how to tell more human stories in a constantly evolving digital world.

Kathrin Gutmann

Campaign Director

Kathrin Gutmann is the Campaign Director of the Europe Beyond Coal Campaign, a coalition of NGOs across Europe to move the region beyond coal by 2030. She led the development of the Europe Beyond Coal Campaign in her role as coordinator of NGO efforts to phase out coal with the Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe. Kathrin brings with her 20 years of expertise in the field of climate & energy policy and advocacy, international network coordination and campaigning. She has worked as Head of Policy & Advocacy with WWF International’s Climate Program and in different capacities with Climate Analytics, the European Climate Foundation, the German Environment Ministry, the Green Party in the German Bundestag, Greenpeace International and has volunteered with the German youth environment organization BUNDjugend. Additionally, Kathrin is on the board of Reclaim Finance. She is a US-German national and holds a master’s degree in Political Science from the Freie Universität Berlin.

Mahi Sideridou

Managing Director

Mahi has led the team since it was set up in 2017. She has almost twenty years of experience in environmental campaigning and political advocacy, and thirteen years in team coordination and line-management. Mahi studied physics with a focus on climatology in Manchester and Boston, and is an expert on energy issues. She worked for Greenpeace between 2000 and 2015, first as a climate campaigner based in Athens, then moving to Brussels as an EU climate and energy policy director and finally as the European Unit’s managing director. She sat on the board of directors of Climate Action Network Europe for ten years and is currently on the board of Greenpeace Czech Republic. She speaks Greek, English, French and Danish.

Felix Reitz

Energy Analyst

Felix holds a masters degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from Berlin Technical University and joined Europe Beyond Coal in 2017. He has a strong background in energy market modelling and quantitative research and has co-authored several scientific publications on the future of coal and lignite. Prior to joining the campaign he worked for Markedskraft Germany, German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin), LBD Beratungsgesellschaft and Öko-Institut. As a member of the team, he underpins the daily and strategic work with data-driven analyses. He speaks German, English and French.