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SCO leaders tell West to bite bullet and hand billions to Taliban
With Afghanistan on brink of humanitarian and economic hell, it might be that only access to capital frozen abroad can stop the country becoming an incurable narco-state that is a hive of terrorism.
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bneGREEN: Serbia issued debut €1bn green Eurobond
First green Eurobond from the Western Balkans to finance environmental protection and climate change mitigation projects as Serbia pursues green transition.
bneGREEN: Global coal plans collapse by 76%
The global pipeline of proposed coal power plants has collapsed by 76% since the Paris Agreement in 2015, bringing the end of new coal power construction into sight, new research by green think-tank E3G finds.
bneGreen: Finland’s Betolar develops green cement as construction races to decarbonise
Finland’s Betolar is pioneering the production of low-carbon cement by using alternative industrial waste products in a process that could reduce CO2 emissions by up to 80%.
bneGREEN: Turkey’s lakes and rivers drying up amid drought and climate change
Reports in the country’s press of severe water depletion becoming more and more frequent.
Black soldier fly start-up Entoprotech starts first funding round
Bugs can become big business. Entoprotech, an Israeli biotech start-up has raised $2mn to develop its black soldier fly (BSF) to process organic waste that will reduce methane emissions from landfills and create animal feed as a byproduct.
bneGREEN: Fertiliser, electricity producers count the cost of the EU’s CBAM
Emerging Europe's fertiliser and electricity exporters to the EU face a guessing game to estimate the costs of the EU's CBAM.
FPRI BMB Ukraine: Ukraine records one of its hottest summers ever
Summer 2020 was one of the hottest ever recorded in Ukraine. With the agriculture sector generating about a tenth of the country’s GDP and employing 22% of the population, experts suggest that Ukraine is more sensitive to climate change than many.
bneGREEN: CBAM to have less bite than bark
The cost of the EU’s proposed CBAM may turn out to be less than initially feared by exporters into the EU, a new report from Sandbag and E3G, two pro-green think-tanks, have found.
bneGreen: Steel faces paying for its carbon
The steel industry in Emerging Europe is staring at mounting costs as it must contend with paying for the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions it creates.
bneGREEN: Russia drafts hydrogen development plan
Russia plans to emerge as an exporter of hydrogen within the space of a few years and supply as much as 12mn tonnes per year (tpy) of the fuel by 2035, under a draft development plan approved in August.
bneGREEN: Wishful thinking in Russia's EconMin CO2 strategy
Economic Development Minister Maksim Reshetnikov has outlined the main directions of the country's GHG reduction strategy, which is increasingly focusing on ESG as the Kremlin wakes up to the dangers of global warming.
bneGREEN: Will the Belarus NPP become the elephant in the room for Lithuania?
Lithuania has passed legislation to ban electricity imports from Belarus, but power from Lithuania’s hostile and unpredictable neighbour keeps trickling across the border through four 330-kV interconnectors.
bneGreen: Last chance to cut emissions and save the climate
The UN said in its strongest statement yet that human influence is unequivocally responsible for creating climate change, with only immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in CO2 and GHG emissions able to limit global global warming to 1.5°C.
Russia’s Sibur sees emissions flat amid major growth plan
Russia’s largest petrochemicals producer Sibur aims to complete massive growth plans without additional emissions, according to a comprehensive report on results and sustainability in 2020.
Czech industry ministry signs memorandum to back country's first EV battery plant
€2bn battery factory to be built by state-owned utility CEZ with Germany's VW or South Korea's LG.
bneGREEN: EU takes carbon pricing initiative with CBAM
The EU on 14 July unveiled the details of its proposed Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, which aims to protect EU CO2 emitters from carbon leakage by making exporters to the EU market pay for the CO2 they produce.
bneGREEN: Global investors turn to green energy and away from fossil fuels
The world’s largest global debt and equity investors are continuing to invest in renewable energy despite the pandemic, driven by the wealth of investment opportunities, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis said.
bneGREEN: BlackRock raises $250mn to fund climate transition in emerging markets
BlackRock has raised $250mn from a consortium of ten institutional investors, governments and charities for its flagship blended finance fund, which aims to help emerging market economies reduce carbon emissions.
bneGREEN: EU carbon pricing set for radical reforms
The European Commission is to publish legislation on July 14 that will detail the EU’s plans, dubbed “Fit for 55,” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55% from 1990 levels by 2030 as part of wider reforms to European energy and climate laws.
