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Publish date: March 9, 2006
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The spending of countries-members of IEA for research on renewable energy development is less than 8% of all the spending on all the research works in the energy sector, ITAR TASS reported.
Executive director of IEA Claude Manille underlined a necessity of financial support of this sector of energy, presenting a report “Renewable sources of energy: priorities of researches and of development”. The Chief of the IEA reminded that in 1970’s during the first “oil crisis” there was s sufficient increase of financial support for renewable sources of energy development. The current situation requires the same actions, he added.
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.
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