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Publish date: September 14, 2008
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By so doing, the share of bio-ethanol flowing to the European Union transport sector will be 5 percent. It was earlier assumed that the share would be raised to 10 percent.
The deputies also called for governments of the European Union to limit the production of fuel from corn and concentrate on electric and hydrogen energy, Oil.ru reported.
According to the United Nations, the spread of bio-fuels is a major cause behind the world-wide spike in food costs because the amount of arable land that could be devoted to food production is being used to grow fuel products.
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.