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Publish date: March 16, 2004
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Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the foreign policy committee of the Lower House of the Russian parliament, told recently RBC Daily about that. The CTR program allocated $6.5 billion in total to secure weapons of mass destruction since 1992. The USA still has not signed the paragraph regarding responsibility for technogenic accidents in Russia due to the possible US fault during implementation of such programs as Cooperative Threat Reduction Program (CTR) and the Multi-Lateral Environmental Protect in the Russian Federation agreement (MNEPR).
It is stated in the MNEPR agreement that deliberate damage caused by an individual during implementation of this program stipulates certain responsibility. According to Kosachev, this principle is civilised and used in international relations. Almost all countries signed it. The USA, however, does not like this principle and they insist on the rules used since 1992 in the CTR program, when the US responsibility was not determined. Both programs are extremely profitable for Russia, as it does not have resources to eliminate excessive nuclear and chemical weapons itself. If we do not find a legal solution, we might not get this money Konstantin Kosachev 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.