Monthly Highlights from the Russian Arctic, March 2024
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.
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Energy Efficiency measures as directly electrifying heating are low-hanging fruit to reduce EU’s dependency on Russian gas. The Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) remains one of the key levers to operationalise and increase energy savings and ensure our energy security. Yet, despite such a significant consumption and emissions reduction opportunity, energy efficiency gains have slowed significantly since 2015, and the rate at which the building stock improves its energy performance remains at just 1%, even as EU policy goals require this figure to triple between now and 2030.
Together with several NGO’s we asked the European Commission to adopt binding national targets, moving from ambition to implementation.
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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.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
Russian president Vladimir Putin has told the United Nations atomic energy watchdog that Russia plans to restart Ukraine’s embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, currently occupied by Russian troops and technicians, fueling worries about a serious nuclear accident on the front lines of a grinding military conflict.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 | Brussels, Belgium – Today, the European Parliament approved the newly revised Construction Products regulation (CPR)...