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Publish date: November 4, 2022
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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.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 | Brussels, Belgium – Today, the European Parliament approved the newly revised Construction Products regulation (CPR)...
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.