September 7, 2021 Climate change, Transport Clean ship hulls have huge environmental benefits When ships sail through the ocean, barnacles, algae, mussels, and other organisms collect along hulls and stick to them, creating major […]
September 1, 2021 Climate change, European Union, Future energy system Financing the Fit for 2030 package: Modernisation, Innovation and Social Funds spell the EU’s recipe for the future With the help of a new carbon pricing scheme, the Fit for 2030 package creates the new Emissions Trading System covering buildings and […]
August 31, 2021 Climate change Note from New Orleans: During Hurricane Ida, the levees worked – for now As the sun rose over New Orleans on Monday, the winds and the rain had finally stopped, and all was quiet but for the scrabble of debris […]
August 25, 2021 Climate change, International climate conferences Bellona and partners to offer climate solutions at Glasgow climate summit The Bellona Foundation and the Sahara Forest Project are teaming up with Aker Horizons, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other […]
August 16, 2021 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Leningrad nuclear plant advances on decommissioning its eldest reactor Technicians at the original Leningrad nuclear power plant near St Petersburg have taken a major step in the decommissioning one of their […]
August 11, 2021 Climate change Putin blames massive Siberian fires on climate change In a sign the Kremlin might be taking global warming more seriously, President Vladimir Putin has called the vast wildfires that have lashed […]
August 9, 2021 Climate change Is all lost for the climate? Not yet, says new UN report. But it will be close In what they call “a code red for humanity,” the world’s leading climate scientists on Monday delivered their starkest warning yet […]
August 5, 2021 Climate change Biden pushes for tightened fuel standards and faster shift to electric cars The Biden administration wants automakers to raise gas mileage and cut tailpipe pollution between now and model year 2026, and it has won a […]
August 4, 2021 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Moscow aims to build four more floating nuclear plants by 2026 Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom has signed on to build four new floating nuclear power stations over the next six years to […]
July 21, 2021 Climate change Russian officials blame fires ravaging Siberia on climate change Smoke covered the capital of Yakutia and residents were urged to stay indoors and close windows as a series of unprecedented wildfires […]
July 15, 2021 Carbon Dioxide Removal, Climate change Fit for 2030 series: A Slow and Steady start for CDR in the EU Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) has recently emerged as an integral component of the EU’s climate neutrality goal. Within the European […]
July 15, 2021 Climate change, European Union Fit for 2030 series: The ETS takes a step forward towards proper GHG accounting of CO2 use CO2 use has been included in the ETS in a way that sets a fair basis for assessing the permanence of the storage in CO2 use. This is in […]
July 15, 2021 Climate change, European Union, Renewable energy, Transport Fit for 2030 series: Hydrogen enters center stage in RED Renewable Fuels of Non-Biological (RFNBO) have increased in importance in the updated REDII proposal, with specific targets for transport […]
July 12, 2021 Carbon Capture and Storage, European Union, TEN-E To enable industrial decarbonisation across EU Member States, full value-chain recognition for CCS is needed in TEN-E Regulation revision What is needed to enable CCS to play its intended role in industrial decarbonisation? For the last #TenETuesday before the summer break, […]
June 30, 2021 Climate change Russian summer brings sneak peek at climate change Russia’s unique vulnerability to climate change has been confirmed this summer by a record-breaking heatwave that has lingered brutally […]
June 29, 2021 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Officials say a second Kola nuclear plant will begin construction in 2028 Construction on a second nuclear power plant in the Murmansk area will begin in 2028, Russian nuclear authorities have said, finally making […]
June 25, 2021 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia and Norway meet on issues of nuclear safety Through years of political tremors and mutual suspicion between West and East, the one area where Russian and Norwegian officials could shed […]
June 23, 2021 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia How did Bellona help rid Russia of its most radioactive ship? It started over lunch In order to clean up one of the most dangerous radioactive hazards in northwest Russia, Bellona took the European Union out for what ended […]
June 17, 2021 Climate change Russian parliament adopts law aimed at limiting greenhouse gasses Russia’s lower house of parliament this week adopted a law that would limit greenhouse gas emissions via an initiative that officials […]
June 10, 2021 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia New report details Bellona’s first 20 years in Russia A little more than 20 years ago, in Murmansk, Russia, the relics of the Cold War were still close at hand. Nealy 200 nuclear submarines, the […]
