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Publish date: January 18, 2009
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Kuneva emphasised in statements reported by the Focus 1 Information Agency that further discussions of energy in Europe should centre around “a plan for reconstruction and development, because there are many devices for the energy efficiency in that plan.”
Kuneva also underscored that Bulgaria was compensated by the EU for the closure of the Kozloduy nuclear power plant, which was a condition of the counties acceptance into to the EU in 2006.
“With our signature we have undertaken engagements that these nuclear units would be closed off because they couldn’t be renewed”, she said, according to Focus 1.
“Besides the EU has offered to give financial assistance to Bulgaria, which the state has taken,” she added.
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.