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Publish date: March 28, 2014
Written by: Joanna Ciesielska
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The US President came to Brussels following an invitation by European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso. It was Obama’s first visit to the EU institutions.
The Joint Statement of the summit states that the parties reaffirm their “strong determination to work towards the adoption in Paris in 2015 of a protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force under the Convention applicable to all Parties, to strengthen the multilateral, rules-based regime” and that the “2015 agreement must be consistent with science and with the goal of limiting the global temperature increase to below 2°C”.
Energy is a key component in the transition to a competitive low-carbon economy and achieving long-term sustainable economic development, according to the statement. What is more, the parties agreed to “strengthen knowledge-sharing on carbon capture and storage”.
Bellona welcomes the attention to CCS in relations between the EU and the US and also recalls that the European Parliament’s report on the 2030 framework called for a similar exchange of best practice on CCS.
Read the full EU-US Summit Joint Statement here.
Recent attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "mark the beginning of a new and gravely dangerous front of the war," the UN atomic agency's director general said last week.
After years of inaction, Germany is working on its Carbon Management Strategy to resolve how CCS can play a role in climate action in industry. At the end of February, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action published first key points and a proposal to amend the law Kohlenstoffdioxid Speicherungsgesetz (KSpG). Bellona Deutschland, who was actively involved in the previous stakeholder dialogue submitted a statement in the association hearing.
In the midst of a global discussion on whether natural gas should be used as a transitional fuel and whether emissions from its extraction, production, transport and use are significantly less than those from other fossil fuels, Russia has developed ambitious plans to increase its own production of liquified natural gas (LNG) in the Arctic – a region with 75% of proven gas reserves in Russia – to raise its share in the international gas trade.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our main focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution risks and climate change.