Monthly Highlights from the Russian Arctic, October 2024
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution and climate change.
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Open Letter: Joint Statement On The Carbon Removal Certification Framework
Publish date: March 7, 2023
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Open Letter: Joint Statement On The Carbon Removal Certification Framework
With the following NGOs, we strongly support the scaling up of safe and effective carbon dioxide removal (CDR) to accelerate net emissions reductions, address residual emissions in hard-to-abate sectors as part of the transition to climate neutrality by 2050, and achieve net negative emissions thereafter.
With the following NGOs, we strongly support the scaling up of safe and effective carbon dioxide removal (CDR) to accelerate net emissions reductions, address residual emissions in hard-to-abate sectors as part of the transition to climate neutrality by 2050, and achieve net negative emissions thereafter. An ambitious net negative emissions target is crucial for the EU to demonstrate leadership and take responsibility for past and future emissions. This scale-up of carbon removals must occur in parallel with deep and rapid emissions cuts across all sectors of the economy and must not dilute nor delay those efforts.
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Bellona Nuclear Digest. October 2024
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
Putin leaves Kazakhstan without deal to build nuclear plant
A visit last week by Vladimir Putin and a Kremlin entourage to Astana, Kazakhstan sought in part to put Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, on good footing with local officials.
Moscow snips last ties to cooperative nuclear cleanup agreement with West
Russia is formally withdrawing from a landmark environmental agreement that channeled billions in international funding to secure the Soviet nuclear legacy, leaving undone some of the most radioactively dangerous projects and burning one more bridge of potential cooperation with the West.