Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special representative on climate issues, Ruslan Edelgeriev, said that Russia plans to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 at the latest. His words guide the way TASS.
The statement was made by an official at the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28). Edelgeriev emphasized that Russia remains committed to the Paris Agreement goals.
“No one and nothing will stop us from doing this,” Putin’s representative emphasized.
Before that, Russian energy and metallurgical conglomerate En+, which includes Rusal, the world’s leading producer of low-carbon aluminum. presented the company’s achievements in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and its plan to decarbonize by 2050.
The Paris Agreement was adopted on December 12, 2015. While it aims to limit the increase in global temperature to 2 degrees Celsius in the 21st century, it also finds ways to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees. A total of 194 parties participated in the agreement.
Earlier paleoclimatologists approved The link between the greenhouse effect and storms.