January 14, 2022 Arctic, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Russia’s newline Sibir nuclear icebreaker sets sail for Arctic The Sibir, the second in a line of powerful new icebreakers that Russia hopes will tame the Arctic, has set sail from St Petersburg to its […]
January 7, 2022 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Ukraine Ukraine to step up efforts to produce a domestic uranium supply Ukraine, facing a lack of fuel for thermal power plants and surging gas prices, aims to increase its uranium production to fully cover the […]
January 3, 2022 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia retires Chernobyl-era reactor at Kursk nuclear plant As 2021 drew to a close, the No 1 reactor at the Kursk nuclear power plant in Russia was permanently shut down after 45 years in operation, […]
November 29, 2021 Electric mobility, Transport By electric car from St Petersburg to Vladivostok, installing charging stations along the way Pyotr Movchan, who heads Portal Energy – a St Petersburg company that develops and manufactures its own charging stations for electric […]
November 13, 2021 Climate change, International climate conferences Bellona sees a tightening of the Paris Agreement at COP26 After extending negotiations for an extra day, leaders of the United Nations summit in Glasgow have offered a new draft agreement that aims […]
November 12, 2021 Climate change, International climate conferences Report exposes the shaky data underlying claims to emissions cuts at Glasgow’s COP26 As the final days of the United Nations COP26 climate talks began in Glasgow, the Washington Post published a remarkable and possibly […]
November 10, 2021 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change, International climate conferences The world will be cooked without CCS Bellona has been working for carbon capture and storage (CCS) since 1992. Yet it took several decades for the UN Climate Panel to recommend […]
November 2, 2021 Climate change, International climate conferences Norway’s prime minister opens Bellona’s pavilion at COP26 in Glasgow Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre was on hand to open the Bellona pavilion at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland Sunday, […]
November 1, 2021 Electric mobility, Transport A new EV charger opens on the Russian shore of the Barents Sea Another brick in the Barents Baltic Electric Road has been laid in Teriberka, a village on the Barents Sea popular with tourists and the […]
October 29, 2021 Climate change, International climate conferences Bellona’s 30-year history at UN climate summits Bellona made its international breakthrough at the world’s first environmental conference in Rio in 1992, where we presented a report […]
October 28, 2021 Climate change, International climate conferences Norway is out of step with the world The European Union, the United States and the other western countries with Arctic territory are now in favor of stopping oil and gas […]
October 27, 2021 Climate change, Electric mobility, International climate conferences, Transport Bellona takes off for Glasgow in an electric car On Monday, Bellona set out for the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in an electric car – of course. Most have heard that electric car sales […]
October 22, 2021 Electric mobility, Transport Russian government flirts with supporting electric cars in new ‘concept’ The Russian government has announced a program geared toward producing electric vehicles and the infrastructure to keep them charged, all […]
October 19, 2021 Climate change Key Democrat torpedoes Biden’s most significant climate action A critical piece of US President Joe Biden’s climate agenda, which would replace coal- and gas-fired power plants with wind, solar and […]
October 14, 2021 Arctic, Fossil fuels, Gas, Oil Bellona cheers EU proposal to leave Arctic oil, coal and gas in the ground The European Union will seek a ban on tapping new oil, coal and gas deposits in the Arctic to protect a region severely affected by climate […]
October 14, 2021 Climate change, International climate conferences Bellona readies its ‘blue zone’ presence at Glasgow’s COP26 “The future depends on the results of the climate summit in Glasgow,” said Oslo City Councilor Raymond Johansen when he welcomed […]
October 12, 2021 Climate change There’s more – much more – than politics at stake in Biden’s infrastructure bills As President Joe Biden’s conjoined infrastructure bills struggle against opposition from within his own party, much of their critical […]
October 8, 2021 Climate change Putin urges ‘smooth’ transition to green energy Russian President Vladimir Putin this week argued that the world needs a smoother transition to green energy technologies, saying European […]
October 6, 2021 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Rosatom official puts deadline on raising old nuclear submarines An official with Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, has announced a deadline for raising two Soviet-era nuclear submarines that […]
October 4, 2021 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Norway and Russia mark 25 years of cooperative work on radiation security Two and a half decades ago, a green four-car train would make the rounds every few months of Russia’s icy Kola Peninsula to cart nuclear […]
