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Publish date: April 4, 2013
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Bellona Europa will host a hearing on the future of CO2 capture and storage (CCS) at the forthcoming plenary session of the European Parliament on 16 April.
This open hearing, co-hosted by Chris Davies, British MEP from the ALDE Group, will launch a discussion on new ways of enabling CCS to help the EU achieve its climate goals. New instruments to promote and fund the CCS technology will be presented by the co-authors of the CCS Market Incentives Report of Bellona Europa.
Recent developments enable an open and progressive discussion on new CCS policy framework. On 27 March the European Commission published the CCS consultative communication in which it invites stakeholders’ views on policy options going beyond the ETS funded New Entrants Reserve (NER300) scheme. Policy measures such as Emission Performance Standards, CCS certificates, support through auctioning recycling or other funding approaches are listed in the consultative part of the document.
On 21 March the European Parliament’s environment services supported a proposal from Chris Davies, that the future of (CCS) in the EU will be the subject to a 2013 Implementation Report by the Environment Committee. The Parliament will thus parallel the ongoing Commission’s consultation procedure with an own – initiative report. The report, according to Chris Davies, should both analyse the reasons for failure to secure funding for the CCS demonstration projects and propose new instruments to promote and fund the development of CCS.
The hearing will take place in Strasbourg, Louise Weiss Building, Room S3.5 on Tuesday 16 April from 16:30 to 17:30.
For registration please respond by e-mail to ccshearing@bellona.org
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.
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