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Russia’s Arctic energy ambitions depend on a delicate balance: stable production, predictable shipping routes, and a logistics network that can withstand both harsh conditions and geopolitical pressure. Developments in March suggest that balance is becoming harder to maintain. Two events highlighted in Bellona’s latest Arctic Digest—the disabling of the LNG tanker Arctic Metagas and a […]

Bellona’s new Nuclear Digest for February is out now and catalogs a number of mounting pressures on Russia’s global nuclear footprint. From stalled projects in Europe to rising strategic risks after the collapse of arms control agreements, the events of last month show a more fragmented and less predictable nuclear landscape. Among other things, our analysis shows three important fault lines: Hungary’s Paks-2 […]

A new ISO standard was published last week to help port authorities, shipowners and operators navigate rules on how ships should be cleaned in an environmentally sound way. Hull cleaning is gaining traction among shipowners, while countries are increasingly introducing regulations—but many ports still lack practical guidance on how to manage it.    Tvedten is the project manager for the […]

The following op-ed by Eivind Berstad, Bellona’s CCS team leader, originally appeared in Teknisk Ukbladet. When the European Free Trade Association Court establishes that the Norwegian continental shelf falls under the EEA Agreement, it challenges one of the main arguments Norwegian authorities have used to keep the EU’s new industrial regulations at arm’s length. At […]

r the past eight years, disinformation has dominated news around elections all over the world. Despite this, it is still a widely misunderstood concept—as are its solutions. As divisiveness drives more and more political rhetoric in today’s world, we must throw out preconceptions about what disinformation looks like to protect ourselves against manipulation.

A ruling by the European Free Trade Association Court that Norway’s continental shelf falls under the European Economic Area Agreement could dramatically reshape the country’s climate obligations—and trigger a massive expansion of carbon dioxide storage capacity in the North Sea. Bellona hailed the decision as a historic breakthrough with far-reaching consequences for European climate policy. […]

“When narratives are dictated, the consequences can become very real,” said Bellona’s Yuri Sergeev as he opened Bellona’s event on the Kremlin’s attempts to influence discussions about the development of the Northern Sea Route and the Arctic more broadly

Bellona has launched the Oslofjord Kelp Park, a pilot kelp cultivation facility outside Slemmestad, about 30 kilometers southwest of Oslo, aimed at restoring environmental conditions in the heavily stressed Oslofjord. “We are going to show how we can use nature’s solutions to fix nature’s problems. Great values have been lost here, and the hope is […]

Økokrim, Norway’s authority for investigating and prosecuting economic and environmental crime, has imposed a record fine on Equinor following a complaint filed by the Bellona Foundation. “Equinor has violated the law over a long period of time, and a record fine is fully warranted. The next step must be personal criminal liability,” says Bellona founder […]

The United Nation’s COP30 global climate negotiations in Belém, Brazil ended this weekend with a watered-down resolution that failed to halt deforestation and made no direct mention of fossil fuels, long known to be the main driver of global warming.   The final statement, criticized across the board by diplomats as insufficient, represented a victory for […]