Monthly Highlights from the Russian Arctic, October 2024
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution and climate change.
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Joint Letter: Recommendations for an Environmentally Ambitious Construction Products Regulation (CPR)
Publish date: April 19, 2023
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Joint Letter: Recommendations for an Environmentally Ambitious Construction Products Regulation (CPR)
Bellona signed a joint letter, alongside 22 stakeholders, calling EU Member States for ambitious environmental provisions on the Construction Products Regulation.
Bellona signed a joint letter, alongside 22 stakeholders, calling EU Member States for ambitious environmental provisions on the Construction Products Regulation. Construction products represent some of the highest energy and carbon intensive products on the EU market, averaging to a carbon footprint of 250 million tonnes every year. In addition to CO2 emissions, construction products require 1.6 billion tonnes of raw materials, representing half of the EU’s consumption, and at end of life a third of EU’s waste generated annually.
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Bellona Nuclear Digest. October 2024
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
Putin leaves Kazakhstan without deal to build nuclear plant
A visit last week by Vladimir Putin and a Kremlin entourage to Astana, Kazakhstan sought in part to put Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, on good footing with local officials.
Moscow snips last ties to cooperative nuclear cleanup agreement with West
Russia is formally withdrawing from a landmark environmental agreement that channeled billions in international funding to secure the Soviet nuclear legacy, leaving undone some of the most radioactively dangerous projects and burning one more bridge of potential cooperation with the West.