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Publish date: July 16, 2007
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Gordon Brown, the leading candidate for Prime Minister of Great Britain, was the guest of honor. The ‘Virgin Voyager’s’ fuel is a distinct mixture that burns less carbon dioxide than regular diesel fuel with 20 percent coming from processed biological raw materials, including soy beans, rape seed oil and palm oil. Virgin Trains Company will be running the train for six months across England, Southern Wales and Scotland for testing purposes that, if successful, will result in the transfer of all the company’s trains over to biodiesel fuel.
The British Parliament is assisting the projects beginning by lowering taxes on biodiesel fuel to 7 pents per liter, down from 54 pents for regular biodiesel fuel. Virgin Trains President Richard Branson confirms that the amount of carbon dioxide emissions eliminated by the new biodiesel fuel will be the equivalent of taking 23 thousand cars off the road in Britain.
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.