September 17, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage New EU energy plan echoes Bellona’s recommendations on CCS On 15 September 2015 the European Commission adopted its new Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan. The SET Plan has been a cornerstone of […]
September 11, 2015 Bio-CCS, Carbon Capture and Storage, International climate conferences Study shows enormous bioenergy potential in Australia, while country’s climate ambition remains non-existent A recently published study entitled “Hybrid life-cycle assessment of algal biofuel production” assesses the economic viability of algae […]
September 10, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage Bellona delivers recommendations to the Commission’s ETS reform and the Innovation Fund On 9 September 2015 Bellona Europa delivered its feedback to the European Commission’s proposal for revision of the EU Emission Trading […]
September 10, 2015 Climate change, Electric mobility, International climate conferences Bellona hosts Eco Car Day in the EV-capital On 8 September 2015 Bellona and Oslo Taxi hosted a joint event: Eco Car Day. Car manufactures presented their various eco-car models to over […]
September 2, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage, International climate conferences Yet another US-China deal on CCUS collaboration, while we keep waiting for a project to materialise On 26 August 2015 during the US-China Clean Coal Industry Forum which took place in Billings, Montana, the world’s two largest […]
August 19, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage Nordic CCS Summer School held in Norway From 9 to 14 August 2015 the second NORDICCS’ CCS Summer School was held in Porsgrunn and Trondheim, Norway. NORDICCS is the Nordic CCS […]
July 30, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change, Fossil fuels, Gas, Oil Statoil, a Norwegian state-owned petroleum company lets go of all shame; puts climate future and Norway’s reputation at risk On 17 June 2015, Vice President and Chief Economist of Norway’s state-owned petroleum company Statoil, Mr Eirik Wærness, left all shame […]
July 22, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage, International climate conferences Core architecture of Paris climate deal slowly emerging With less than six months left to COP 21, we are seeing countries making constructive efforts to reach consensus on what the deal should […]
July 20, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change France’s plans to end export credits at risk of cancellation Earlier this year the French government announced plans to withdraw credits for the construction of coal power plants in developing […]
July 16, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage, Future energy system Commission launches ‘summer package’ of energy reforms As part of the EU’s Energy Union Strategy, on 15 July 2015 the Commission presented four key documents, comprising the so-called ‘Summer […]
July 15, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage ETS Reform: Steps taken towards an Energy Union Today, 15 July 2015, the European Commission has launched its so-called ‘Summer Package’ with the proposal to revise the EU’s Emission […]
July 8, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change ETS Reform: Spelling out the agreed upon Market Stability Reserve The European Parliament has today (8 July 2015) voted in favor of a 2019 start of the proposed ETS reform, the so-called Market Stability […]
July 7, 2015 Future energy system, International climate conferences The Luxembourgish EU Presidency to play decisive role at COP 21 This month Luxembourg took over the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union, which it will retain until 31 December 2015. […]
July 2, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage, International climate conferences China unveils climate pledge toward COP 21 China, the world’s largest emitter of CO2, announced its climate pledge towards COP 21, at a bi-lateral meeting with the EU on 29 June […]
June 30, 2015 International climate conferences Report reveals insufficiency of submitted country pledges towards COP21 With the decisive UN Climate Summit only a few months away, it is important to take stock of the adequacy and ambition of countries’ […]
June 24, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage Alabama and Mississippi blog: The South as climate technology frontrunners “Almost two weeks in the Southern US states confirmed that the North American CCS train has left the station, while Europe is still […]
June 23, 2015 Electric mobility, Energy storage Bellona’s vision for attaining an electromobile Europe Currently, passenger cars alone are responsible for over 15% of total CO2 emissions in the EU. The global car fleet is predicted to double […]
June 10, 2015 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change Energy Council concludes on Energy Union and sets agenda for next EU Presidency On 8 June 2015 the EU Energy Council met in Brussels to discuss the Energy Security Strategy and adopt conclusions on the implementation of […]
June 9, 2015 International climate conferences Bonn talks: clock to Paris COP21 counts down as pressure rises Representatives from over 190 nations are gathered in Bonn, Germany from 1 to 11 June 2015 to progress negotiations on the text of the UN […]
June 4, 2015 Bio-CCS, Carbon Capture and Storage Green light for carbon capture in Oslo Late yesterday evening, Oslo City Council concluded that they want to establish carbon capture facility at Oslo’s Energy Recovery […]
