Ecosystem Risks News Today

UK Ministers are wooing the United Arab Emirates - reportedly thestate-owned Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) and its sovereignwealth fund owner, ADQ - to be a partner in Sizewell C. This is highlycontroversial given the UAE's position on sensitive issues such as Israeland Palestine, and its support for Saudi Arabia's stance on the murder ofjournalist…

  GLOBAL 2000 publishes fact-checking video on the COP 28 climateconference - nuclear power more than twice as expensive as renewables,aging-related nuclear power plant failures endanger security of supply. At the start of COP 28 in Dubai tomorrow, GLOBAL 2000 and its German partnerorganization BUND Umwelt are publishing an animated video that analyzes thefacts about…

 The main low-carbon energy sources available in the UK in the battleagainst climate change are solar, wind, biomass and nuclear energy, butwhat sorts of people prefer these different options? That’s the topic ofa new study in the December issue of the journal Energy authored at theEnergy Policy Research Group at Cambridge Judge Business School, whichfinds…

EDF to “build 1 reactor a year in 2030s” – CEO. French utility EDFplans to build at least one nuclear reactor per year in the next decade inEurope, its CEO told the World Nuclear Exhibition in Paris late on Tuesday.“We're counting on an accelerated rate of construction capacity for largereactors, from what we have today,…

The scale of the challenge faced by diplomats pushingfor a new global agreement to 'phase out' unabated fossil fuels at theupcoming UN Climate Summit in Dubai was underscored yesterday by reportsdetailing how both the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia areprivately working to sustain long term demand for oil and gas. Just hours after…

Mary Robinson: This year will go down in history as the one when globaltemperature records were not merely surpassed but shattered. There is alsoa risk that 2023 becomes the year that multilateral co-operation on climatefractures, if leaders do not respond at the scale and with the urgency thescience demands. As COP28 starts in Dubai against…

On November 30 officials will begin to discuss an agenda in the UAE thatincludes measures on fossil fuels and boosting funds for vulnerablecountries. We were walking for 12 hours in 37 or 38-degree heat, and youcould feel the heat from the fire,” Joanna Harber said, recounting howwildfires on Rhodes turned her summer holiday to hell.…

SOPHIE TETREL, Paris, MURIEL BOSELLI, Paris, France, 28 Nov 2023  (Montel) France’s plan to replace the Arenh regulation with a nuclear tax is a “leap into the unknown” and does not guarantee that EDF will sell atomic output at EUR 70/MWh, analysts told Montel. “We are switching to a full market system. It is a…

The UK government is seeking backers for the nuclear power station in Suffolk. Ministers havelined up Abu Dhabi investors to take a significant stake in the Sizewell Cnuclear power plant, as concerns grow among Conservative MPs over aseparate Emirati bid for The Daily Telegraph. The government is looking for backers for the £20 billion power…

 A University of Reading team of researchers looked back at a model thatpredicted nuclear power would expand dramatically in order to assess theefficacy of energy policies implemented today. Results published in thejournal Risk Analysis showed the team found simulations that inform energypolicy had unreliable assumptions built into them and that they need moretransparency about their…