... Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), by 2020, the increase in global average temperature compared to the pre-industrial era (1850-1900) reached 1.1 degrees Celsius. However, climate change mitigation measures currently pledged by nations are insufficient to maintain the rise in the global temperature within the limits set by the 2015 Paris Agreement.
BRICS countries play a crucial role in global climate policy. Even before its expansion, the association ...
... Russia’s chairmanship included: issues of a just transition, adaptation to climate change, natural solutions, carbon markets and carbon pricing. Initiatives to share experience in the development of carbon markets and implementation of adaptation measures, as well as a proposal to foster scientific climate cooperation sparked considerable interest.
The discussion of climate agenda within BRICS already has a certain background. With its proposal, Russia took an important step towards institutionalizing ...
... on Climate Change (COP-27) is taking place in Sharm el-Sheikh. Egypt hosting the World Climate Summit is a landmark event in the recent history of this country. In addition, this is an excellent opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of the measures taken by the Egyptian government to protect the environment, as well as build a green economy.
The Egyptian economy is facing various challenges, including peculiarities surrounding agricultural development, demographic issues, threats to food security,...
... (GHG) emissions based on individual targets. The Convention was therefore initially backed by the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 and further by the Paris Agreement of 2015, legally binding the 196 participating countries to limit the increase of global temperatures to below 2 degrees Celsius, as compared to pre-industrial levels. The Paris Agreement compelled every signatory to submit plans for climate mitigation by 2020, defined as nationally determined contributions (NDCs), which are a set of binding guidelines ...
... the point where Russia has begun to
dispute
the idea of it being part of the European civilization, and identity issues are increasingly becoming a cause for mutual grievances and misunderstandings [
1
]. Looking from Russia, one often gets the impression that some EU states, particularly those in Eastern Europe, are engaged in a contest for the best new interpretation of the history of World War II and the relations between the peoples of the former USSR, trying to find new grounds for distancing ...
