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Publish date: September 26, 2011
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The letter was issued on the 19th of September addressing Presidents Van Rompuy, Barroso, and Buzek, as well as the EU Heads of State and government. It welcomes the strong focus on research and innovation in the Commission’s proposal for the next EU multiannual financial framework for 2014-20 and the specific commitment to implement the EU SET-Plan. The letter also underlined the priority given to the SET-Plan by the February 2011 special European Council on energy and innovation.
Stakeholders accentuated that support for the SET-Plan in the new financial framework is essential in order to deliver the energy technology breakthroughs Europe needs to meet its strategic objectives for 2020: fulfillment of greenhouse gas emission reduction targets; secure local energy supplies; and global competitiveness in the fast growing market for low-carbon solutions.
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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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.