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Publish date: September 26, 2011
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The letter was issued on the 19th of September addressing Presidents Van Rompuy, Barroso, and Buzek, as well as the EU Heads of State and government. It welcomes the strong focus on research and innovation in the Commission’s proposal for the next EU multiannual financial framework for 2014-20 and the specific commitment to implement the EU SET-Plan. The letter also underlined the priority given to the SET-Plan by the February 2011 special European Council on energy and innovation.
Stakeholders accentuated that support for the SET-Plan in the new financial framework is essential in order to deliver the energy technology breakthroughs Europe needs to meet its strategic objectives for 2020: fulfillment of greenhouse gas emission reduction targets; secure local energy supplies; and global competitiveness in the fast growing market for low-carbon solutions.
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.