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Publish date: August 21, 2008
Written by: Ola Innset
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The Offshore Northern Seas Conference (ONS) took place in Stavanger from 26th to 28th of August. ONS is an important event for the oil and gas industry, and last Monday Bellona hosted the seminar “How to combat global warming – is there a role for the oil and gas industry in the future of energy?.
You can watch the whole seminar here:
The role of Sovereign Wealth Funds in financing a clean energy future
(Henriette Westhrin, State secretary of Finance)
Fossil dinosaurs and the challenge of global warming
(Frederic Hauge, Bellona)
How to combat global warming – the Bellona scenario
(Ane Brunvoll, Bjørn Utgård & Aage Stangeland, Bellona)
Policies for change
(Marius Holm, Bellona)
Can energy companies make more profit despite selling less?
(Anthony White, Climate Change Capital)
The promise of our energy future
(Lois Quam, Piper Jaffray)
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.