The acute problems of climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, and energy efficiency related issues are widely discussed in the mass media in Russia. As the modern media react faster to trendy aspects of our life, the Internet portals and newsmakers are much more deeply involved and take more progressive positions on information dissemination than traditional...
Category: Russia News Brief and Action Alert
Russia Subnational Best Practices
Provinces/States/Regions Yamalo-Nenetskyi Autonomous Okrug Region (YaNAO)—YaNAO is a region well known for its active and regular work for reduction of GHG emissions since 2008. The YaNAO Government developed and is implementing the Action Plan for GHG emission reduction by 2020, which is aimed as well at creation of effective tools for air pollution reduction and...
Russia Leaders and Opponents
Government Official Mr. Alexander Bedritskyi Presidential Advisor, the Special Representative for Climate in Russia The leading governmental official in Russia dealing with climate change issues is Mr. Alexander Bedritskyi, the Presidential Advisor and the Special Representative for Climate in Russia. While the Paris Agreement was signed by Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Khloponin, Mr. Alexander Bedritskyi...
Russia Leading Research Study
Research Study: “ The 1st and 2nd Assessment Reports on Climate Change and its Consequences in the Russian Federation,” Russian Academy of Sciences (2008) (2014) At the beginning of this century, the problem of climate change was not considered properly in Russia. In general, the progressive part of its population was aware of the climate...
Russia Emissions Reduction Strategy
Russia: Presidential Decree No. 889, Federal Law No. 261-FZ, State Program in Energy Efficiency and Energy Sector Development The carbon footprint of Russia is influenced by the following characteristics: Russia is one of the worldwide leaders in oil and gas production; The country economy is based on energy-consuming industry with heavy and partially old technologies;...
Russia Energy Production Trends
How The Energy System Is Structured Since the early 1990s, the power sector in Russia has undergone significant changes to its structure, priorities, and generation capacities. In 1992, the power industry was reorganized into the 50% state-owned company RAO UES, the largest electric power holding company. Privatization and further restructuring of the power sector took...
Russia Emission Reduction Challenges
Leading Emission Reduction Challenges: (a) Problems in implementing existing climate change policies; (b) Dependence on fossil fuels as energy sources; (c) Changing peoples’ perceptionsCurrent Greenhouse Gas Emission Levels As a Party to the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, the Russian Federation developed and regularly updates its national inventory of greenhouse gas...
Russia Ratification Status
Possibility of Ratification by 2018: Low The intention of the Russian Federation to ratify the Paris Agreement has been announced at official meetings and in interviews, by Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Khloponin and the President’s special representative for the climate, Mr Alexander Bedritsky. Fighting climate change is high on the national agenda and supported at the government level. At the...