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Publish date: March 26, 2021
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As part of the ongoing revision of the TEN-E regulation and the campaign #TenETuesday, the Spanish Manufacturer’s Cement Association, Oficemen, has written a letter in support of it’s recognition of CO2 storage and transport by modalities other than pipeline (such as ship, rail, truck and barge) to reach the set EU’s target of climate neutrality by 2050.
Carbon capture, transport and storage in sectors such as cement is necessary to achieve climate neutrality and enable negative emissions.
According to Ancieto Zaragoza, General Manager at Oficemen, the current development and deployment of CCS in Europe are insufficient. To achieve systemic deployment of CCS, the revised TEN-E Regulation needs to incentivise investments and maintain flexibility to accommodate CCS technologies across the entire value chain.
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.