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Publish date: May 25, 2009
Written by: Camilla Langsholt
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EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said that in order to support China’s fight against climate change, the European Union need to share know-how on CO2 capture and storage (CCS).
“It is crucial to put CCS for China on the top of the political agenda”, says Eivind Hoff of Bellona Europa. “The deployment of CCS in China as an instrument to cut CO2 emissions need to start further rather than later, and concerns about intellectual property rights cannot be allowed to be a barrier in this endeavour,” he underscored.
The importance of a quick deployment of CCS in China was also highlighted earlier this month at the second meeting of the EU-China High Level Trade and Economic Dialogue (HED), between the European Commission and the Chinese government. During the meeting, both parties recommitted to build a coal-fired power plant with CO2 capture and storage by 2020.
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.