US EditionPutin decree allows Russia to increase greenhouse gas emissions
RUSSIA, AUG 6 – Russia’s 2035 target allows emissions to rise 20% from 2021 levels while aiming to reduce emissions to 65-67% of 1990 levels, factoring forest carbon absorption, UN data shows.
- In a decree, Putin ordered the government to implement "by 2035 a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions to 65-67 percent relative to the 1990 level", taking into account Russia's forests that absorb carbon.
- This would set Russia's maximum allowed emissions at around two billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2035, lower than the 1990 record but around 22 percent higher than the 2021 figure.
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Greenhouse gases, especially those produced when fossil fuels are burned, are the main culprits of global warming on the planet. Russia until very recently was reluctant to make real and medium-term commitments in reducing such GHGs. Surprisingly, Putin has recently announced a change of plans in this regard and says that the country will have to reduce by 2035 (in just under a decade) 65% of GHGs, taking as a reference the emissions that occurr…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Wednesday that allows Russia to increase its greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 20% by 2035, compared with the levels of 2021, reports...
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed, Wednesday, a decree allowing Russia to increase its greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2035, compared with the levels of 2021.
By decree, Russia's President Vladimir Putin has increased the greenhouse gas ceiling from 2035. Already now, the country is the fourth largest issuer worldwide.
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