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Publish date: April 6, 2011
Written by: Niklas Kalvø Tessem
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The alliance will launch a pilot project abating 10,000 tonnes of CO2 per year by 2015, with wide scale deployment expected by 2020. Taiwan has a geology which could make it suitable for multiple CCS projects.
– Land-based and offshore carbon dioxide storage capacity measures a sizeable 2.8 billion and 113.5 billion tons respectively, said EPA minister Stephen Shen, according to Taiwan Today.
The CCS alliance includes public and private partners, and the government seeks more private partners to contribute.
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.