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 […]
March 23, 2022 Climate change, Fossil fuels, Gas EU can stop Russian gas imports by 2025 Clean energy solutions play a crucial role in rapidly ending the EU’s reliance on fossil gas imports from Russia. Our findings show that […]
March 22, 2022 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change, International climate conferences Oslo leading by example: world’s first CO2 capture and storage on waste incinerator to become reality in 2026 The Klemetsrud CO2 capture and storage project by 2026 will be the world’s first waste-to-energy plant with full-scale CCS. The Bellona […]
March 16, 2022 Climate change, Electric mobility, Future energy system, Transport Batteries can be part of the solution of future power crises Eliminating both internal combustion engines and fossil fuel inputs in industry around the world means a big increase in our electricity […]
March 15, 2022 Climate change, European Union, Future energy system, Gas, Renewable energy, Solar, Wind Using REPowerEU at its full potential: the role of hydrogen and direct electrification in displacing fossil gas demand Last week the Commission published REPowerEU, a strategy to cope with Europe’s dependency on fossil fuels and in particular Russian gas. […]
March 15, 2022 Climate change, European Union Bellona Europa co-signs NGO statement on CBAM expressing concerns about isolating it from FitFor55 package Ahead of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council Meeting (ECOFIN), Bellona, together with a number of NGOs, signed a statement on […]
March 14, 2022 ZECS Letter to EU commission: forthcoming Construction Product Regulation will fail to address climate & environmental impacts of construction Bellona co-signed a letter to the European Commission, warning it that the expected Construction Product Regulation proposal is set to fail […]
March 8, 2022 Electric mobility, Future energy system, Transport Bellona co-signs joint letter on Batteries Regulation Europe is currently working on a new batteries regulation. A regulation that needs to be part of the effort for Europe to cut its emissions […]
March 7, 2022 Air Pollution Bellona co-signs joint statement on enabling Direct Air Capture in the ReFuelEU Aviation Proposal Together with the Negative Emissions Platform, Transport & Environment and the Clean Air Task Force, Bellona Europa calls on the EU to […]
March 2, 2022 Climate change, International climate conferences, Nuclear issues War is what happens when language fails War is what happens when language fails. The Bellona Foundation is an international, environmental organisation. Our objective is to achieve […]
March 1, 2022 Climate change Circularity in Steel In 2020, the EU 28 was one of the largest crude steel-producing regions in the world. While the steel sector already produces a large […]
February 28, 2022 Climate change Circularity in Cement and Concrete Each year, over 4 billion tons of cement are produced and global cement production accounts for approximately 8% of global emissions. […]
February 14, 2022 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change, European Union Joint call to action for a strategy on regional CO2 infrastructure in the Netherlands, Belgium and North Rhine-Westphalia This letter, signed by a large group of civil society and private sector stakeholders from the Netherlands, Belgium and North-Rhine […]
