Monthly Highlights from the Russian Arctic, March 2024
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.
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Publish date: January 13, 2009
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Bellona Europa has been central to the development of this new report on different scenarios for de-carbonising power generation through setting a limit on the amount of CO2 that can be emitted per kilowatt-hour – known as an emission performance standard, or EPS).
The report was launched at an event prepared by Bellona Europa in co-operation with Members of European Parliament (MEPs) Anders Wijkman, Adina Ioana Valean and Claude Turmes, with and Bellona Europa’s Eivind Hoff speaking on behalf of environmental NGOs.
Dr. Sina Wartmann of Ecofys presented the report, who amongst other things, showed that the most important for curbing emissions through an EPS is to apply it not only to new but also to existing power plants. This is more important than the number of grams of CO2 emissions permitted per kilowatt-hour (the scenarios considered 500g, 350g and 150g limits).
The event attracted about 10 key MEPs from a whole range of political parties and countries, all of them sympathetic to the principle of an EPS. As a representative of power plant manufacturers, Markus Becker of General Electric also expressed support for the principle, saying that the EU emission trading scheme was not sufficient to de-carbonise power generation and that an EPS could be a “good supplement,” while its precise timing and level needed to be discussed in more detail.
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.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
Russian president Vladimir Putin has told the United Nations atomic energy watchdog that Russia plans to restart Ukraine’s embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, currently occupied by Russian troops and technicians, fueling worries about a serious nuclear accident on the front lines of a grinding military conflict.
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