November 12, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change, International climate conferences World leaders signal commitment to climate action Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President Obama jointly announced ambitious commitments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions during the […]
November 12, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change CCS needed for both climate and growth, establishes European Parliament event CCS experts from the European Commission, European Parliament and the UK’s Department for Energy and Climate Change where joined by key […]
November 10, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change Bellona report: Investments in CO2 storage must begin before 2020 Bellona Europa today launched a new report examining the development of the CO2 storage industry. The report, titled ‘Scaling the CO2 […]
November 6, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change Emissions Performance Standards and their impact on CCS The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently in the process of elaborating a series of rules to reduce CO2 emissions in the […]
November 6, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change Taiwan unveils hopes of leadership in CCS Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou has announced his country’s ambitious climate change mitigation plan which entails pledges to reduce […]
November 6, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change CCS to enjoy increased EU funding after 2020 On 23 October 2014, the European Council conclusions on the 2030 Climate and Energy Package confirmed EU leaders’ commitment to CO2 […]
November 5, 2014 Bio-CCS, Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change IPCC Synthesis Report calls for fossil fuel phase out by 2100 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Synthesis Report on 2 November 2014. The key message delivered by the […]
November 4, 2014 Electric mobility, Energy storage Bellona Brief: Energy storage in electric cars batteries can surpass Norwegian gas Bellona has prepared a brief showing how electric vehicle (EV) batteries will in the near future be a very important part of the European […]
October 31, 2014 Access to information, Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Bellona’s EcoJurist 2014 competition supporting environmental lawyers in record numbers The Environmental Rights Center (ERC) Bellona is experiencing a record-breaking year in applications to its EcoJurist program, its five-year […]
October 30, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage Scottish CCS leads probing discussions at annual conference The trend of re-invigorated Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) engagement experienced in the last few months was continued today at the annual […]
October 29, 2014 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Murmansk‘s biggest floating radiological threat finally taken off water MURMANSK – Russia’s most dangerous nuclear vessel, the Lepse, was yesterday finally put into dry dock at the Nerpa shipyard north of […]
October 28, 2014 Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Russian Navy Russia’s Far East no longer home to any spent nuclear fuel VLADIVOSTOK – The last trainload laden with spent nuclear fuel from the Russian Naval Pacific Fleet’s decommissioned nuclear submarine […]
October 27, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change, International climate conferences Countries call on the UN to support CCS development On 21 October 2014 the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat hosted a technical expert meeting on CO2 […]
October 27, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage CCS experiment shows minimal environmental impact of CO2 leakage An international team of scientists have published their results from the first ever experiment monitoring the environmental impact of a CO2 […]
October 27, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change CCS will be a crucial component of Finland’s 2050 climate strategy Finland is currently in the process of adopting a new climate change act which will require the country to cut down its CO2 emissions by 80% […]
October 24, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change, International climate conferences A good day for European climate legislation Bellona is pleased to see the EU has set itself clear climate goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by 2030.
October 22, 2014 Access to information, Nuclear Russia, Russian human rights issues Silence greets questions posed by Bellona at public hearing on Kalinin nuclear reactor experiment MOSCOW – Nearly 30 questions posed to a roundtable discussion held Friday on boosting the engineered power capacity of the Kalinin Nuclear […]
October 20, 2014 Bioenergy, Climate change, Energy Efficiency, Renewable energy Russia’s Karelian Republic shift to biomass for heat not without complication PETROZAVODSK, Russia – A portion of the Northwest Russian Karelian Republic’s boiler systems will gradually be shifted to local forms of […]
October 17, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change, International climate conferences Repeated calls for the inclusion of CCS in EU 2030 Framework On 15 October 2014 Shell hosted an MEP briefing on the Role of CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS) to 2030. Key figures in the panel of the event […]
October 15, 2014 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change, Fossil fuels EURACOAL confuses press release with suicide note On 10 October 2014, Euracoal – the European coal lobby – presented the world with a list of arguments as to why coal should be ignored […]
