Balancing competitiveness and climate objectives: Bellona Europa’s insights on the Draghi Report
Introduction Competitiveness has been the dominating topic in EU political discussions in recent months and is set to be a key focus of the upcomi...
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Publish date: December 11, 2003
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Earlier Sergey Mitrokhin took part in the meetings of the Inter-Parliamentary Working Group established by Bellona.
The discussion concerned nuclear and environmental safety. The Russian Minister of Atomic energy Alexander Rumyantsev, Deputy Head Science Secretary of the Russian Science Academy Boris Myasoyedov, and the President of the Centre for Environmental Policy Alexander Yablokov also took part in the meeting.
The participants discussed safety problems of the Russian nuclear sites and nuclear submarines dismantling. Putin said Minatom signed a $100m contract with foreign partners concerning nuclear submarines dismantling, although he mentioned that the Russian state budget spent $68m on this issue in 2003. Yabloko leader mentioned that his party suggested in the Russian parliament to ban completely foreign nuclear waste import into Russia and provide maximum transparency for the revenues earned from foreign nuclear materials storage and reprocessing. They claimed that the nuclear waste import project is unprofitable and dangerous for environment. If one calculates all Russias expenses on handling foreign spent nuclear fuel (storage, reprocessing, waste treatment etc.), he will see that the expenses are much higher than the expected revenues. Moreover, the costs can rise due to possible accidents during storage or shipment of the spent nuclear fuel.
Introduction Competitiveness has been the dominating topic in EU political discussions in recent months and is set to be a key focus of the upcomi...
Russia is a world leader in the construction of nuclear power plants abroad. Despite the sanctions pressure on Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, its nuclear industry has remained virtually untouched.
Today, the Bellona Foundation is launching the establishment of the Center for Marine Restoration in Kabelvåg, Lofoten. At the same time, collaboration agreements related to the center were signed with Norrøna, the University of Tromsø, the Lofoten Council and Blue Harvest Technologies
To ensure that Germany achieves its goal of climate neutrality by 2045, negative emissions are necessary, as depicted in the global IPCC scenarios.