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Publish date: August 24, 2009
Written by: Martina Novak
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This MoU is one of the positive results of the efforts US and Chinese officials have recently put into bilateral talks on emission reductions before December`s UN climate talks over the past few months.
Meanwhile Duke Energy is engaged in building a 630 megawatt coal gasification plant in Indiana (to be finished in 2012) where the electric utility also conducts research on CCS as coal gasification produces a relatively pure stream of CO2.
China Huaneng on the other hand was the first one to build a CO2 capture demonstration project in China (Beijing) and is currently planning a larger-scale demonstration, to be operational by the end of 2009 in Shanghai.
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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.