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Publish date: October 22, 2009
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As it stands, the European Commission’s “CCS deployment roadmap” (See PDF to right) proposes commercial viability of CCS to occur between 2020 and 2025. At the conference on Wednesday, ZEP called for the deadline to be no later than 2020 to avoid global temperature levels to rise more than the 2°C as recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
In parallel, the issue of how permits for CCS demonstration plants would be administered was raised given that these projects need to start being built before the deadline for transposition of the **CO2 Geological Storage Directive comes into force as national law by June 2011. Commission officials said that this question would be considered by a panel of expert lawyers in due course.
“It is imperative that any new coal plants being built from now on are fully equipped with CCS technology by 2020,” says Eivind Hoff of Bellona Europa.
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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.