March 26, 2021 Carbon Capture and Storage, European Union, TEN-E Leading French scientist, Dr Isabelle Czernichowski-Lauriol, highlights the importance of CO2 storage in the TEN-E Regulation Leading French scientist, Dr Isabelle Czernichowski-Lauriol, highlights the importance of TEN-E recognition of CO2 storage to be in line […]
March 26, 2021 Climate change, Fossil fuels Norwegian cities lead the way in reaching zero-emissions in construction sites Municipalities in Norway are moving towards stringent climate requirements for construction sites. With a combined population of over […]
March 26, 2021 Carbon Capture and Storage, European Union, TEN-E Spanish Cement Manufacturers Trade Association: TEN-E must accommodate additional transport modalities and CCS technologies across the entire value chain As part of the ongoing revision of the TEN-E regulation and the campaign #TenETuesday, the Spanish Manufacturer’s Cement […]
March 25, 2021 Bio-CCS, Carbon Capture and Storage, Carbon Dioxide Removal, European Union Oslo CCS project is one step closer to EU funding Fortum Oslo Varme’s (FOV) waste management facility at Klemetsrud is among the most mature CCS project proposals in Europe. […]
March 25, 2021 Industrial Pollution, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Murmansk regional polluter shuts down another of its polluting facilities A major Russian metalworks near the Norwegian border has ceased operations in a move meant to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide that have […]
March 23, 2021 Electric mobility, Transition The trials and tribulations of two Belarusian EV drivers in Russia’s far north This winter, two Tesla-driving Belarusian businessmen named Artur and Viktor decided to take a trip to Murmansk by electric car. It was a […]
March 23, 2021 Carbon Capture and Storage, European Union, TEN-E Heidelberg Cement’s Director Rob van der Meer on the importance of the ongoing TEN-E Revision HeidelbergCement is a German multinational building materials company headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany. On March 23rd, for #TenETuesday, […]
March 21, 2021 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Rosatom seeks contractor to dispose of sunken subs reactor cores Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, has announced a tender for disposing of reactor cores from the K-27 submarine, which was […]
March 18, 2021 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Imported transformers behind November outage at Belarusian nuclear plant Italian-produced equipment was behind a mishap at the Belarus nuclear power plant late last year, which saw a newly operational […]
March 18, 2021 Climate change, Transition NGO Alliance reply to European Commission request for expert advice on transition finance On the 18th of January, the European Commission issued a request to the Sustainable Finance Platform (SFP) to “provide advice on […]
March 16, 2021 Bio-CCS, Carbon Capture and Storage, TEN-E Bio-CCS’ role on path to net-zero – dependent on legislative framework’s recognition of shipping and CO2 storage Tapping into ongoing discussions in Sweden on Bio-CCS’ vital role on the path to net-zero by 2050, Fabian Levihn from Stockholm EXERGI […]
March 15, 2021 Electric mobility, Transport Electric car sales see huge annual increases in Russia For another year running, Russia has set records for electric car sales that, shockingly, outpace rates in its EV-hungry Scandinavian […]
March 12, 2021 Climate change CBAM report in the European Parliament presents several big wins for the climate The recent report adopted by the European Parliament supporting the introduction of a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is a […]
March 12, 2021 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Meltdown in Japan 10 years after Fukushima, the nuclear industry still has trouble gaining the public’s trust Ten years ago this week, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake in the Pacific sent an eight story wall of water rolling toward the six reactors of the […]
March 4, 2021 Climate change, European Union, Industrial Pollution, Renewable energy Hydrogen in steel production: what is happening in Europe – part one The steel industry accounts for 4% of all the CO2 emissions in Europe and 22% of the industrial carbon emissions in Europe. Several […]
March 1, 2021 Carbon Capture and Storage, TEN-E Interview: TEN-E Recognition of CO2 Storage: Spark to light the flame of large-scale CO2 sequestration in Europe As part of the ongoing revision of the guidelines for Trans-European Energy Infrastructure (TEN-E) Regulation, Bellona Europa has together […]
February 22, 2021 Climate change, International climate conferences US is officially back in the Paris Agreement. What’s next? As of Friday, the United States has official rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement, lending new vigor to the global struggle against climate […]
February 19, 2021 Climate change Biden administration ditches Obama’s Clean Power Plan to pursue more ambitious regulations The Biden administration said this week it will not try to resurrect the Clean Power Plan, a controversial Obama-era policy that set climate […]
February 18, 2021 Climate change, European Union, Fossil fuels, Future energy system, Gas EU RRF ‘Do No Harm’ criteria fail to safeguard the resilience of the recovery Last week the EU Commission published a note on the “Technical guidance on the application of ‘do no significant harm’ (DNSH)” under […]
February 17, 2021 Industrial Pollution Russia’s Norilsk Nickel hit with enormous fine over Arctic oil spill Russia’s Norilsk Nickel, the world’s largest producer of palladium and nickel, has been hit with a record $2.1 billion fine over an […]
