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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NGO letter to the European Commission on the CRCF
Publish date: November 4, 2022
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NGO letter to the European Commission on the CRCF
Bellona co-signed an NGO letter to the European Commission on the Carbon Removals Certification Framework, together with Carbon Market Watch, ECOS, EEB, IATP, FERN and WWF.
Bellona co-signed an NGO letter to the European Commission on the Carbon Removals Certification Framework (CRCF), together with Carbon Market Watch, ECOS, EEB, IATP, FERN and WWF.
This CRCF can have merits and address a gap in the EU climate policy framework, but risks seriously undermining its own declared purpose of climate ambition. The following priorities need to be taken into account in the proposal for it to fulfill its potential,
and for the EU to take a leadership position in rolling out real and sustainable carbon removals.
Read the full letter here.
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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.