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Publish date: March 2, 2005
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The convention, which was adopted in 1963 and came into force in 1977, was signed by Russia on May 8, 1996. The document, which has already been ratified by 32 countries, is intended to create an international legal civil liability system for nuclear damage caused by incidents at non-military nuclear sector facilities.
Due to the convention’s cross-border nature, citizens of a country where an incident has taken place and people from other nations affected by it can receive compensation.
It regulates procedures, terms and principles of damage indemnity, setting a states liability at not less than USD5 million, calculated to a formula based on golds value at April 29, 1963. Terms of the agreement say operators must maintain insurance or another financial security for a sum corresponding to the liability. Alongside, it makes operators liable for damage to citizens not only of the state where the incident occurred but any other damaged states additionally. Jurisdiction lies exclusively with courts of nations where the event happened.
Head of the Duma foreign affairs committee Konstantin Kosachev told Kommersant newspaper that ratification envisaged no financial losses for Russia. Russia is neighbor to European countries that use nuclear power, namely Lithuania, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. Before ratifying the convention, if anything happened in these countries, Russia would have been left without compensation reported RBC.
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.