November 6, 2017 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Putin boasts about dwindling number of ‘foreign agent’ NGOs in Russia Russian President Vladimir Putin last week noted that non-profits blacklisted on the government’s foreign agent list are turning down […]
November 1, 2017 Ukraine Технологія уловлювання вуглецю повинна передбачатися в політиках зі зменшення вуглецевоємності – дослідження Тетяна Кармелюк У новому звіті, співавторами якого стали HeidelbergCement та Bellona […]
October 27, 2017 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change, Electric mobility, International climate conferences Bellona event in Oslo: What is at stake at this year’s UN climate summit? This Wednesday Bellona arranged a “kickoff” prior to this year’s UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, COP23. The event was meant to […]
October 26, 2017 Arctic, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Russia’s mirage nuclear icebreaker a definite maybe Russian officials have again revived a cherished sea shanty about a goliath nuclear icebreaker the country may or may not decide to build as […]
October 25, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Andreyeva Bay gears up to send away more old nuclear fuel The second bundle of 22,000 spent nuclear fuel rods are set to leave the submarine maintenance base of Andreyeva Bay as part of an ongoing […]
October 24, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Russian Navy Russia’s sunken subs to lie where they are for another three years Russian officials have again raised the possibility of retrieving tons of nuclear trash from the bottom of the Arctic Ocean – only to […]
October 19, 2017 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Banned Norwegian Editor to get his day in Russian court The case of a Norwegian newspaper editor, who was suspended from travelling to Russia by the shadowy Federal Security Service, is finally […]
October 18, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Russian officials admit that sanctions are throwing nuclear icebreaker plans behind While Russian authorities assert that their newest and most powerful icebreaker, the Arktika, will be ready to take to the seas in 2019, […]
October 18, 2017 Climate change, Electric mobility, Transport How the proposed Norwegian budget drains the battery on the E-car revolution The Norwegian government’s proposed budget deals a heavy blow to the electric vehicle revolution and levies a new tax on the […]
October 16, 2017 Industrial Pollution, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Norilsk Nickel, polluting giant, declares new age of eco-transparency Norilsk Nickel, the Russian Arctic’s industrial giant, tried to break from its environmentally hostile history by inviting Bellona to an […]
October 13, 2017 Ukraine Україна в рейтингу САТ: чи є шанси на покращення кліматичних результатів? Тетяна Кармелюк Нещодавно вийшла чергова щорічна оцінка зусиль країн світу […]
October 12, 2017 Climate change, International climate conferences Is there anything behind Putin’s bogus clean energy statistics? Last week, President Vladimir Putin, who has now been in office nearly as long as Brezhnev and exhibits many of the same droning tendencies, […]
October 12, 2017 Carbon Capture and Storage Is CCS seeing restored momentum in Europe (outside Norway)? Is CCS development and deployment in Europe (outside Norway) back on track? In both recent political developments, with the new Dutch […]
October 12, 2017 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change, International climate conferences Norway jeopardizes CO2 capture and storage while the Netherlands embraces it The proposal for the Norwegian state budget for 2018 was presented today. In the proposal, the budget for developing a full-scale CO2 […]
October 11, 2017 Climate change, International climate conferences What Trump’s latest threat to the climate will mean in court As California is reduced to ash by raging wildfires fueled by drought, and the Gulf of Mexico catalogues the destruction wrought by its […]
October 11, 2017 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change Press release: New Dutch government puts CO2 capture and storage at forefront in climate plan Yesterday, October 10, party leaders in the Netherlands announced an ambitious new coalition agreement, set to redefine climate leadership […]
October 11, 2017 Electric mobility, European Union MEPs back mandatory electrical vehicle charging points in non-residential buildings BRUSSELS – Today MEPs voted for electric vehicle charging points to be required in all new non-residential buildings. As they are more […]
October 9, 2017 Industrial Pollution, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Russia and Norway make progress on cross-border environmental problems Russian and Norwegian environmentalists and politicians gathering in the industrial town of Nikel to tote up advances in cross-border […]
October 6, 2017 Electric mobility, Transport Bellona’s Murmansk e-car charger scoops up Russian government award What started as a small gesture to help a few electric car owners North of Russia’s Arctic Circle juice up their rides has blossomed into […]
October 5, 2017 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Russia to answer for its ‘foreign agent’ law in European Court of Human Rights Russia’s Justice Ministry is finally ready to offer a defense of its “foreign agent” law which says the 2012 legislation has actually […]
