News
Publish date: March 9, 2006
News
During the nearest decades the country intends to built and install numerous windmills to supply its cities and villages, ITAR TASS reported. Nowadays the total capacity of all the windmills stands for one million kW.
China has a possibility to increase this capacity up to one billion kW. According to the plans of the Chinese State Committee on Development and Reforms, capacity of all the windmills in the country in three years will stand for 3.3 million kW, 4 million kW by 2010 and 30 million kW by 2020.
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.