Monthly Highlights from the Russian Arctic, October 2024
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution and climate change.
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Bellona co-signs joint statement on enabling Direct Air Capture in the ReFuelEU Aviation Proposal
Publish date: March 7, 2022
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Bellona co-signs joint statement on enabling Direct Air Capture in the ReFuelEU Aviation Proposal
Together with the Negative Emissions Platform, Transport & Environment and the Clean Air Task Force, Bellona Europa calls on the EU to include clear policy signals in the ReFuelEU Aviation proposal,
Together with the Negative Emissions Platform, Transport & Environment and the Clean Air Task Force, Bellona Europa calls on the EU to include clear policy signals in the ReFuelEU Aviation proposal to scale up investment in Direct Air Capture-fuels (DAC-fuels) and include a share of DAC in the synthetic aviation fuel sub-target. Offering a clear climate benefit because it is zero carbon compatible, DAC-fuels should be favoured over CO2 or CO reuse which ultimately add to the total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Read the full statement here.
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Bellona Nuclear Digest. October 2024
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
Putin leaves Kazakhstan without deal to build nuclear plant
A visit last week by Vladimir Putin and a Kremlin entourage to Astana, Kazakhstan sought in part to put Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, on good footing with local officials.
Moscow snips last ties to cooperative nuclear cleanup agreement with West
Russia is formally withdrawing from a landmark environmental agreement that channeled billions in international funding to secure the Soviet nuclear legacy, leaving undone some of the most radioactively dangerous projects and burning one more bridge of potential cooperation with the West.