Linus Platzer supports NABU North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's largest membership-based environmental organisation, in its major regional efforts to achieve a just transition in the Rhine lignite mining region. In the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, he coordinates and supports civil society in advocating for a socio-ecological transition away from lignite mining and towards sustainable development in line with the Paris Agreement. With a Masters’ degree from Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs, he previously worked at Klima-Allianz Deutschland, the largest German civil society alliance for climate justice, the German agency for international development (GIZ), the World Resources Institute as well as in various research positions.
