Bellona nuclear digest. February 2024
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
News
Publish date: June 5, 2008
News
It is possible to reduce global emissions by 85 percent by 2050, Bellona’s new report, "The Bellona Scenario: How to combat global warming," illustrates by showing that the technologies to solve the issue of climate change are already in our hands. Read the report here: www.bellona.org/reports/How_to_Combat_Global_Warming.
”The solutions are here. What we need is national, regional and global political leadership that ensures that the solutions are put into use,” says Hauge.
Solutions to the climate crises
The Bellona scenario considers seven steps to halt global warming (numbers in parentheses show the percentages by which each of the steps can help to reduce emissions):
A combination of these solutions will together reduce emissions by 85 percent by 2050. Without these solutions climate emissions will increase by 80 percent by 2050.
Climate conference
Frederic Hauge presented the Bellona scenario today at the International Climate Conference 08 (CC8) in the Norwegian town of Sarpsborg. The conference is a cooperative effort between Bellona, the Norwegian electric company Hafslund, and the Club de Madrid, an organisation of former democratic heads of state. The conference has assembled about100 heavyweights from the climate change arena. One of the key participants is Lord Nicolas Stern, former chief economist at the World Bank, who came into the limelight for his stark financial analysis of what climate change would do to the world economy.
Contribution to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009
When world leaders meet at the UN’s climate conference in Copenhagen, Bellona urges them to take the following measures based on Bellona’s report:
Contacts:
Anne Karin Sæther, head of information in Bellona (annekarin@bellona.no): +47 90 20 55 20,
Frederic Hauge, President of Bellona: +47 90 20 55 20,
Marius Holm, Deputy President of Bellona: +47 95 72 16 32,
Aage Stangeland, Bellona scientific advisor and editor of Bellona’s new report: +47 95 82 29 03
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
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The European Union doubled its purchases of Russian nuclear fuel in 2023, data from Eurostat and the UN’s international trade service Comtrade show.