GE Press Release

Why is General Electric still involved in coal development five years after the Paris Agreement? Kenya, Vietnam, India, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Indonesia are among the 14 countries GE is still interested in putting up 15 coal power stations.

deCOALonize | DECEMBER 11, 2020 – deCOALonize campaign together with Natural Resources, Save Lamu from Kenya, WALHI West Java from Indonesia, Ekologia from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Environics from India are concerned that five years since the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015 to deal with climate change, General Electric (GE) is still mentioned to be involved in coal plants in 14 different countries like
Kenya, India, Indonesia, Bosnia, and Herzegovina among others.

GE has continued to use vague language in its statements concerning their move from coal. For instance, on 21st September 2020, GE announced its intention to move out of the new-build coal power market, it was however unclear whether this applied to all the 15 coal power stations and what the “subject to applicable consultation requirements” really meant.

GE got a lot of good publicity when they released this statement on moving away from the

new-build coal power market while not unequivocally stating if this applies to the 15 different coal plants that affect communities from 14 different countries.