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Publish date: October 19, 2008
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Last week’s European Parliament vote is a shove in the direction of creating an agreement to defend the vulnerable Arctic region, for which individual nations have their own policies, but for which there exists no unified policy, on Arctic fishing, or the contentious topics of oil and gas recovery.
According to the report, the American Geological Survey Committee estimates that the Arctic zone contains 22 percent of the worlds untapped oil resources, the Barents Observer reported.
The EU initiative consists of including an international ecological agreement within the UN’s Law of the Sea, which would be adopted to facilitate the work of various organs such as the Arctic Council.
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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.