Policy Brief # 56 / 2024
Policy Brief # 56 / 2024
Climate change is identified in Russia’s Climate Doctrine as “one of the most serious challenges of the 21st century,” a statement that is hard to disagree with. Scientists around the world have agreed that anthropogenic factors play a key role in this process through greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. According to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), by 2020, the increase in global average temperature...
... center on Svalbard could pave the way for extensive scientific collaborations, including polar research, environmental monitoring, and joint expeditions that could significantly advance Arctic science. Projects like electrifying drilling rigs and other energy infrastructure initiatives present further opportunities for Turkish involvement. Turkish firms can contribute to efficiently exploiting Arctic resources by leveraging their energy technology expertise. The potential for future collaboration in ...
... what matters for India is the study of climate change and the potential disastrous effects it may have on its population that lives within 50 kilometers of an over 5700 km coastline. The other factor contributing to India’s interest in the NSR is energy security. India imports 87% of its oil and over 45% of its gas. India not only seeks stable and economical energy supplies but also strives to diversify them. This is also important to avoid undue dependence on one country and one shipping route....
... carbon markets and pricing to mitigation of climate change mainly by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The interest in carbon markets can be explained by the willingness shared by the BRICS nations to ensure the inflow of foreign investment in renewable energy projects, energy efficiency, and energy infrastructure.
The same argument is generally applicable to climate change adaptation. It is known that international climate finance (from developed to developing countries) is accompanied by a serious ...
On September 21, 2021, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) with the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and Third Generation Environmentalism (E3G) held workshop (chatham house format) on green agenda approaches and energy transition. The workshop was organized within the framework of the sixth round of the project “A New Agenda for Russia–UK Relations”
On September 21, 2021, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) with the Royal United Services ...
... way of deepening the rift in ideas and values.
Another important process that is rapidly developing amid the devolution of EU–Russia relations is the deliberate
deconstruction of economic interdependence
. The European Union’s strategy to reduce energy dependence on Russian hydrocarbons, the global trend towards increased protectionism, and the course of economic autarky that Russia settled on in 2014 are augmented today with a new challenge to economic interdependence, which is the EU’s transition ...
... Willershausen, Member of the Management Board, CREON Group; Anastasiia Lavrenteva, Managing Director at Gazprombank; Alexey Spirin, Director of the Environmental and Climate Risk Management Department of En+ Group; and Ernesto Ferlenghi, Chairman of the Energy Committee, Chair of the Green Initiative Steering Committee of the Association of European Businesses; spoke about the vision of the business community on the prospects and challenges of interaction between Russia and the EU in the ecology sphere, green investments, and sustainable development.
Video
..., restoring biodiversity and curbing pollution.
While obviously having an impact on the EU economy, the implementation of the Deal will also concern the economies and foreign commerce of its trading partners through the anticipated re-structuring of energy markets and reduced carbon-intensive imports. In the next decade, the European Green Deal will mostly affect coal imports, possibly followed by oil and gas imports after 2030. By 2030,
coal imports
are expected to reduce by 71–77% of the 2015 ...
We have no need in a VIP limousine equipped with a motorcycle engine
Our world is immersed in a huge ocean of energy, we fly in
infinite space with an incomprehensible speed. Everything
rotates, moves, everything is energy (N. Tesla)
Defining the concept of energy security
In the countries whose economy is largely dependent on exploration of the principal fossil ...
... 12:00 (MSK), Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and CREON Group company will hold a seminar on the topic “Prospects for cooperation between Russia and the EU in the ecology sphere”.
Cooperation between Russia and the European Union in ecology and sustainable development field is one of the promising areas of bilateral relations. For Russia and Russian companies, this opens up prospects in the EU energy market and access to technologies for waste processing and production of renewable energy sources. For the European Union and companies from the EU countries, this is an opportunity to import products that meet its environmental standards.
However,...
