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Publish date: May 27, 2022
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On April 4th , the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published Working Group III’s contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report on the mitigation of climate change. The NEGEM consortium, of which Bellona is a part, congratulates the hundreds of scientists, technical experts and reviewers involved in the drafting of this important document.
This briefing outlines the NEGEM consortium’s reflections on the way CDR is handled in the IPCC report and provides recommendations for ongoing CDR research and policy developments. The headline message of the report is clear: our current and expected pathways of emissions are not in line with the Paris Agreement and we must move quickly to reduce emissions this decade.
The consortium echoes the statement made by Jim Skea, co-Chair of the IPCC WGIII, at the presentation of the report: “It’s now or never, if we want to limit global warming to 1.5°C; without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors, it will be impossible.”
Read the full briefing here.
About the NEGEM consortium – NEGEM is a Research and Innovation Action made up of 16 partners, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Programme, to assess the realistic potential of Negative Emission Technologies and Practices (NETPs) and their contribution to climate neutrality, as a supplementary strategy to emissions mitigation.
Recent attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "mark the beginning of a new and gravely dangerous front of the war," the UN atomic agency's director general said last week.
After years of inaction, Germany is working on its Carbon Management Strategy to resolve how CCS can play a role in climate action in industry. At the end of February, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action published first key points and a proposal to amend the law Kohlenstoffdioxid Speicherungsgesetz (KSpG). Bellona Deutschland, who was actively involved in the previous stakeholder dialogue submitted a statement in the association hearing.
In the midst of a global discussion on whether natural gas should be used as a transitional fuel and whether emissions from its extraction, production, transport and use are significantly less than those from other fossil fuels, Russia has developed ambitious plans to increase its own production of liquified natural gas (LNG) in the Arctic – a region with 75% of proven gas reserves in Russia – to raise its share in the international gas trade.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our main focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution risks and climate change.