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Publish date: December 15, 2009
News
All open side events will be streamed live here, and can be found in the archive.
09.30-11.00: NGO Briefing: Status of US Climate Change Legislation
Co-host: NWF
11.15-12.45: Facing the Challenges: Climate Change adaption in the greater Himalayas.
Co-hosts: ICIMOD AND CICERO
13.00-14.00: Russian Nuclear expansion and climate change
16.30-17.00: Profitable Climate Solutions – in a National and Global Context
Co-host: National Wildlife Federation
17.00-18.00: Carbon Mitigation Strategies – Aspen and Colorado and Beyond
18.00-19.30: Forest Society and Forest Citizenship in the land of Chico Mendes
Co-host: National Wildlife Federation
19.30-20.30: The Business Case for Climate Solutions
Read comprehensive presentations of all side events in the Bellona Room at Bella Centre in Copenhagen here.
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.