23.03.2020, 07:48
Russia Has a Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2050
Source: OREANDA-NEWS
OREANDA-NEWS. The Ministry of Economic Development has prepared a strategy for the long-term development of Russia with a low level of greenhouse gas emissions until 2050.
The strategy was prepared in the development of the Paris climate agreement, in which countries are trying to keep the global average temperature growth within 1.5-2 ° С. Moscow ratified this agreement in September 2019. Russia can't ignore the climate agenda - it creates risks for the sustainable development of the national economy after 2040, the strategy says.
In the baseline scenario, Russia will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 36% by 20% (from the 1990 level), to 2 billion tons of CO2 equivalent. At the same time, the cumulative reduction in emissions will amount to 80–81 billion tons, or about 8% of the global carbon budget (the allowable amount of carbon dioxide that can enter the atmosphere without causing a temperature increase of more than 2 degrees).
Russia's goal to reduce emissions by 48% by 2050 in an intensive scenario cannot be called ambitious when compared with the goals of the leading countries, says Yuri Melnikov, senior analyst at the Center for Energy at the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo.
The strategy was prepared in the development of the Paris climate agreement, in which countries are trying to keep the global average temperature growth within 1.5-2 ° С. Moscow ratified this agreement in September 2019. Russia can't ignore the climate agenda - it creates risks for the sustainable development of the national economy after 2040, the strategy says.
In the baseline scenario, Russia will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 36% by 20% (from the 1990 level), to 2 billion tons of CO2 equivalent. At the same time, the cumulative reduction in emissions will amount to 80–81 billion tons, or about 8% of the global carbon budget (the allowable amount of carbon dioxide that can enter the atmosphere without causing a temperature increase of more than 2 degrees).
Russia's goal to reduce emissions by 48% by 2050 in an intensive scenario cannot be called ambitious when compared with the goals of the leading countries, says Yuri Melnikov, senior analyst at the Center for Energy at the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo.
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