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Publish date: December 9, 1999
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Russia may come out of START-I arms reduction treaty if the talks over the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty with the U.S. lead nowhere, Russian agency APN reported quoting the Commander of the Russian Strategic Forces Vladimir Yakovlev. The present Russian State Duma, lower house of the Russian parliament, failed to ratify the START-II Treaty signed in January 1993. Earlier this month, Vladimir Lukin, chairman of the Duma committee for foreign affairs, said the next State Duma would be more rational and ratify the treaty. But he stressed that no amendments should be introduced to the ABM Treaty.
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.