April 12, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Questionable Russian-owned company caught up in Ukrainian nuclear reactor deal As Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko, faces a run off in the country’s elections, he has issued a decree to his cabinet to act […]
April 10, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Norway and Russia to visit sunken Komsomolets sub three decades after it sank This summer, Norwegian and Russian scientists will plumb the depths of one of the Cold War’s most enduring legends – the Komsomolets […]
April 9, 2019 Climate change, European Union Too important to ignore: 5 reasons to speak up and act on industrial emissions As the notion of ‘pre-industrial’ temperature levels already suggests, the industry plays a central role in rising emissions and […]
April 8, 2019 Industrial Pollution Murmansk port hopes huge screens will trap its coal dust Officials at the Murmansk Commercial Seaport have raised a fence they hope will trap the smog of soot rising from the coal stockpiles laying […]
April 5, 2019 Climate change, Fossil fuels, Gas, Oil Norway’s huge oil fund makes major shift to renewable energy In a major move to spread the use of green energy, Norway’s $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund has announced that it will begin investing […]
April 5, 2019 Electric mobility, Energy storage, European Union Market will be there for batteries, Europe can still catch up, says Frederic Hauge On Tuesday 2nd of April, Bellona co-organised an event on ‘Sustainable Battery production in Europe’, with the European Policy […]
April 4, 2019 Climate change, European Union, Plastic Pollution The Chemical Industry’s Contributions to Climate Change The chemical sector is one of the biggest industries in the world and is by far the largest industrial user of energy. Globally, it accounts […]
April 3, 2019 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping Rosneft steps in to make good on Putin’s Arctic development plans As the Moscow scrambles to fulfill a presidential decree demanding an unprecedented boost in cargo volumes flowing through the Northern Sea […]
April 2, 2019 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping Anxious Russian ministry says billions are needed for Arctic buildup Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources has calculated that the Arctic needs some $160 billion of new investment to realize a presidential […]
April 1, 2019 Electric mobility, Transport As of last month, nearly 60 percent of new cars sold in Norway are electric Almost 60 percent of all new cars sold in Norway in March were fully electric, said the Norwegian Road Federation on Monday, setting a new […]
March 28, 2019 Electric mobility, Transport What could make electric cars more useful — and less like UFOs — to Russians? While sightings of electric cars have become commonplace in many European countries, why are they still so exotic to Russian eyes? When will […]
March 28, 2019 European Union, Plastic Pollution, Transport Tyred of microplastics On a global level 28% of primary microplastic releases to our oceans come from tyres. How are the EU and the tyre industry addressing the […]
March 26, 2019 Electric mobility, Transport Finnish politicians campaign on electric cars Finland hasn’t reached the stellar heights of its Scandinavian neighbors when it comes to the sale of electric cars. But if the […]
March 25, 2019 Climate change, International climate conferences Norway’s young walk out of school to demand climate action Norwegian school children on Friday took part in a nationwide walkout from classes to protest adult failures to come to grips with climate […]
March 25, 2019 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change, European Union, Fossil fuels, Future energy system, Industrial Pollution Steel and emissions: How can we break the link? The global iron and steel industry accounts for approximately 5% of total global CO2 emissions. On average, 1.9 tonnes of CO2 are emitted […]
March 22, 2019 Electric mobility, Transport At Electric Planet Summit, Norway shows the world how to plug in When it comes to the sale of electric cars, Norway has a lot to be proud of. That pride was on display at the Nordic EV Summit Electric […]
March 22, 2019 Climate change To the youth: Apologies from a middle-aged white man I want to apologize to the many young people for the fact that we have not fixed the climate problem. Children and youth have every right to […]
March 20, 2019 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Hungary says it’s in no hurry to build Russian reactor Hungary has announced it has no target date to submit its application for a construction permit for new reactors at the Paks nuclear power […]
March 20, 2019 Transport A modal shift: The potential of Inland Waterways When discussing ways to make the mobility sector more clean and carbon-neutral, land transport is always the main focus. However, inland […]
March 20, 2019 Climate change, Fossil fuels, Gas, Oil EU trade monitor lets big oil cash in – Bellona says not so fast The European trade monitor has declined to pursue a complaint filed by Bellona against Norway over the nation’s scheme of reimbursing oil […]
