May 27, 2022 Carbon Dioxide Removal, Climate change NEGEM consortium publishes briefing on ways in which CDR is handled in the latest IPCC report The headline message of the report is clear: our current and expected pathways of emissions are not in line with the Paris Agreement and we […]
May 27, 2022 Electric mobility, European Union, Fossil fuels, Transport Open letter urging decision makers to reject the creation of additional demand for natural gas An open letter has been sent to the European Parliament and the Council of the EU urging decision makers to reject the creation of […]
May 23, 2022 Climate change, Energy Efficiency, European Union, Future energy system Call for Veto: Legal breach and democratic shortcomings in Taxonomy CDA Bellona Europa and ClientEarth kicked-off the first event in the planned series on the Taxonomy CDA on the 11th of May. With high level […]
May 18, 2022 Climate change, European Union, Fossil fuels, Future energy system, Renewable energy, Solar, Wind Press release – REPowerEU: when hydrogen hype clouds climate ambitions The European Commission published its REPowerEU package today, meant to wean Europe off Russian gas. In this package, hydrogen is […]
May 18, 2022 Climate change, European Union, Renewable energy Bellona’s position on ENVI committees votes on RED, ETS, ESR and LULUCF Earlier this week, the European Parliament’s Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) committee voted on key pieces of […]
May 13, 2022 Climate change, European Union, Industrial Pollution Bellona co-signs open letter calling on the European Parliament to support Amendment 393 in the Effort Sharing Regulation (ESR) Bellona Europa, alongside 13 NGOs, calls on the European Parliament to support Amendment 393 in the Effort Sharing Regulation (ESR) and […]
May 11, 2022 Electric mobility, Transport Bellona co-signs open letter calling on Europe to electrify new corporate fleets Call for company cars, delivery vans, taxi and ride-hailing services, as well as urban and public authority fleets to go zero emission and […]
May 10, 2022 European Union, TEN-T Blogpost: Public action needed to tackle barriers to entry for Hungarian first movers on CCS Bellona Europa’s Hanna Biro, originally from Hungary, recently travelled to her home country to attend a local workshop that gathered […]
May 4, 2022 Carbon Dioxide Removal, Climate change, European Union Three basics for the EU to get CDR right In the context of the EU’s Carbon Removal Certification Mechanism, Bellona suggests 3 basics that should guide the EU’s approach […]
May 3, 2022 European Union, TEN-T Shipping CO2 provides flexibility to reach storage sites For the ongoing campaign of #TenTTuesday, Bellona Europa and Clean Air Task Force (CATF) hosted an event on the 6th of April: Transport of […]
April 29, 2022 Carbon Capture and Storage Pioneering CO2 export terminal underway in Germany Bellona has recommended that the German government build a CO2 transport and storage infrastructure for German industry. This is now being […]
April 28, 2022 European Union, Fossil fuels Bellona Europa Launches Taxonomy CDA Event Series The launch of the EU Sustainable Finance Taxonomy Complementary Delegated Act (CDA) set out the role of unabated fossil gas as sustainable […]
April 26, 2022 European Union, TEN-T Mix of solutions, including ship, barge, rail and truck, needed to quickly scale-up industrial decarbonisation The ongoing revision of the TEN-T regulation is crucial to spark the large-scale development and deployment of a cross-border CO2 transport […]
April 19, 2022 European Union, TEN-T Barges: key to close the urgent CCS infrastructure gap Among the speakers at our event with Clean Air Task Force a Belgium-based Shipping company Victrol, spoke about the importance of multiple […]
April 13, 2022 Climate change, European Union, Fossil fuels, Future energy system, Gas, Renewable energy Bellona’s recommendations on the hydrogen and decarbonised gas market package The current proposal from the European Commission fails to free Europe from a fossil lock-in. Bellona strongly recommends including clear […]
April 12, 2022 Climate change, European Union, Future energy system, Renewable energy, Solar, Wind Fixing permitting for Renewables deployment is an imperative The permitting lead time for onshore wind deployment can take up to 10 years. This is unacceptable in a context in which massive deployment […]
April 12, 2022 European Union, TEN-T Bellona Europa and CATF Event on TEN-T: Importance of Multiple Modalities transporting CO2 to Storage As part of the recently launched campaign series #TenTTuesday Bellona Europa and CATF arranged an online event on the 6th of April. The […]
April 4, 2022 Carbon Capture and Storage, Carbon Dioxide Removal, Climate change The challenge ahead of us grows every day we fail to cut emissions Today’s IPCC AR6 WG III report outlines the actions we must take to minimise the effects of the ongoing climate crisis. It is a stark […]
March 29, 2022 European Union, TEN-T TEN-T: Multimodal Transport of CO2 to Permanent Storage Key to Europe’s Industrial Decarbonisation Plan The European Commission published its proposal for the ongoing revision of the Trans-European transport network (TEN-T) on the 16th of […]
March 25, 2022 Electric mobility, Energy Efficiency, Energy storage, Future energy system, Transport Bellona’s main asks for AFIR AFIR presents a crucial opportunity to enable the decarbonisation of the transport sector, the only sector whose emissions have risen since […]
