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Publish date: May 24, 2009
Written by: Camilla Langsholt
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Its aim is to share information about CCS to its members that consist of 16 governments including the US and 40 major companies in the oil and gas, electricity, finance and coal sector.
Eivind Hoff of Bellona Europa welcomes this move by the EU, which is in line with recent EU decisions to finance CCS projects: €1.05 billion were set aside for CCS in the EU economic recovery package adopted this month, complementing the 300 million emission allowances reserved mainly for CCS projects in the revised directive on EU emission trade scheme adopted in April.
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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.