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The wastewater treatment plant will be upgraded partly with a loan from NEFCO. Photo: Patrik Rastenberger
8.5.2012 |
NEFCO and the water company, OKOS, have signed a loan agreement to rehabilitate wastewater treatment facilities serving the towns of Svetlogorsk, Pionersk and Zelenogradsk in Russia.
Thomas Nilsen, Barents Observer
8.5.2012 |
The Russian industrial giant Norilsk Nickel is a world-leading producer of metals needed for the development of clean energy technologies and renewable energy sources. So why hasn’t the company, after 20 years of negotiations with its Nordic neighbors, improved its environmental image by solving the large-scale emissions from its smelter in Nikel?
Production of furniture with less emissions. Photo: Patrik Rastenberger
24.4.2012 |
NEFCO and Rossibbalt Ltd, a furniture producing company based in Znamensk in the Kaliningrad region of Russia, have signed a loan agreement to replace two diesel-fired boilers with a new 320 kW boiler, which will be fired from wood waste.
Project Manager Anne Marie Holt Christensen
10.4.2012 |
The climate challenge we are facing today is extensive and complex. The consequences of lack of action may seem overwhelming. We are sharing the challenge, and local solutions may show the pathway.
Vnesheconombank's branch office in St. Petersburg. Photo: Anders Mård
10.4.2012 |
NEFCO and the state-owned Russian Vnesheconombank have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to facilitate the financing of environmental-related projects in Russia. Areas of cooperation will include energy efficiency, cleaner production, wastewater treatment, waste management, municipal services and renewable energy initiatives in Russia.
Signs of eutrophication in the Gulf of Finland. Photo: Matti Snellman
5.4.2012 |
NEFCO and the municipality of Kingisepp in Northwest Russia, have, today, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to finance the modernisation of the latter’s water distribution and wastewater treatment facilities.
14.3.2012 |
The Nordic Climate Facility (NCF) team has reviewed the 128 applications received for the third call for proposals and 30 applicants have been shortlisted.
3.3.2012 |
NEFCO has published a new video clip on energy saving measures in the Kaliningrad region in Russia. The video highlights a project in the town of Gurievsk close to Kaliningrad.
2.3.2012 |
The Nordic countries are at the forefront of environmental technology innovation.
Increased R&D spending in all the Nordic countries generates new inventions and
technologies, but it often takes time before these innovations are adopted and realize
their business potential.
NEFCO reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 3.7 million tonnes in 2011.
1.3.2012 |
NEFCO’s financial accounts for 2011, which were approved by the Board of Directors today, show encouraging environmental results. According to the corporation’s environmental status report, NEFCO’s climate investments in 2011 reduced carbon dioxide emissions by some 3.7 million tonnes, a figure corresponding to the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by 6.75 million persons travelling by airplane from Helsinki to Bangkok.
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