January 19, 2021 European Union Climate change and sustainability in the Portuguese EU Council presidency agenda We took a look at the Portuguese EU presidency agenda. According to their programme, the three priorities driving their action will be: […]
January 18, 2021 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Belarus’s nuclear plant goes offline after new mishap Belarusian officials say they have taken their new Russian-built nuclear power plant offline after a generator protection system was tripped […]
January 15, 2021 Climate change Control of the US Senate will ease Biden’s climate agenda With Democrats now poised to take control of the US Senate, the prospects for president-elect Joe Biden to pursue his aggressive policies to […]
January 13, 2021 Air Pollution, Climate change, Nuclear Russia, Renewable energy, Russian human rights issues Bellona’s Russian offices sum up the work they did in 2020, a most unusual year The past year has been unusual throughout the world. Restrictions related to holding public events, gathering in offices and taking trips […]
January 11, 2021 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Rosatom to build plant running on small modular reactors in eastern Siberia Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, will this month begin work at the future site of a small-scale nuclear power plant in the far […]
January 11, 2021 European Union European Clean Hydrogen Alliance to kickstart its work As part of the European Industrial Strategy aimed at maintaining the EU industrial leadership, on 8th July 2020 the European Commission […]
January 4, 2021 Industrial Pollution, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine One of the Murmansk Region’s most polluting facilities shuts down after more than seven decades After 74 years of operation, a controversial smelting works at the Kola Mining and Metallurgy Company, a subsidiary of the giant Norilsk […]
December 23, 2020 Carbon Capture and Storage In victory for Bellona, Norway’s parliament approves funding for first complete carbon capture and storage project The Norwegian parliament formally approved on December 15th the budget proposal for 2021 from the conservative coalition government, which […]
December 23, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia EU visit to Belarus nuclear plant called off, deepening safety concerns A visit by European experts to the controversial and newly-operational Belarusian nuclear plant was cancelled after local officials failed […]
December 22, 2020 Industrial Pollution, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Major Arctic polluter will shut down harmful smelting works by Christmas Day An industrial facility in Russia long responsible for harmful pollution will shut down on December 23, a move cheered by Bellona, which has […]
December 18, 2020 Nuclear issues, Russian human rights issues Rashid Alimov, who helped sound alarms on Russia’s radiation dangers, succumbs to covid-19 Rashid Alimov, a prominent environmentalist who led vigorous efforts to inform Russians of radiation dangers and campaigned for clean air […]
December 15, 2020 Climate change Biden pledges to hold climate summit in the US shortly after taking office The United State will hold a climate summit within the first 100 days of the Biden administration that will gather the world’s major […]
December 15, 2020 Climate change, European Union, Fossil fuels, Gas, TEN-E TEN-E Draft Regulation misses the ‘smart’ mark on climate and is not ‘EU Green Deal’ ready The much-anticipated draft TEN-E Regulation was released this afternoon. While important steps have been taken to align the TEN-E […]
December 15, 2020 Fossil fuels Fossil loopholes go dangerously unnoticed in EU Sustainable Finance Rules The EU’s new rules on sustainable finance has been a hotly debated topic throughout 2020. Changes to the criteria for climate mitigation […]
December 14, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Rosatom redesigning floating nuclear plant for foreign customers, media reports say Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom has begun offering to build floating nuclear plants for a number of foreign countries, the […]
December 14, 2020 Carbon Dioxide Removal, Climate change, European Union European Council is misleading its citizens with a ‘net’ 2030 target The European Council has agreed to reduce the EU’s contribution to climate change by ‘at least 55%’ by 2030, by including carbon […]
December 11, 2020 Accidents and incidents, Nuclear issues Finnish nuclear officials report ‘serious’ incident at Olkiluoto reactor, but no radiation leak Finland’s nuclear safety authority said Thursday that radiation levels had risen following an incident at the Olkiluoto 2 nuclear unit in […]
December 11, 2020 Fisheries Novel feed sources to reduce climate emissions of Norwegian salmon farming The Bellona Foundation, the Norwegian Seafood Federation and seven major players in the fish feed industry have joined forces to improve the […]
December 10, 2020 Climate change, Renewable energy What is Russia’s climate future as the EU moves toward a low carbon economy? Just how ambitious are Russia’s goals to rein in greenhouse gas emissions? Is the country ready to take steps toward a low carbon economy? […]
December 8, 2020 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Bellona’s new report maps a course of action for neglected Ukrainian uranium processor It won’t come as a surprise that radioactive contamination is a major problem facing the government of Ukraine, the country that inherited […]
