INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
once again struggle to agree on how to collectively address the climate crisis.For Russia, which remains under harsh Western sanctions and
bogged down in its 21-month war on Ukraine, the conference will serve as a test of whether its voice can still be heard in the global
ministers, a deputy prime minister and dozens of officials from government agencies.Along with rising geopolitical tensions, wars in several
parts of the world and economic uncertainty, the climate crisis leaves no chance of becoming less of a headache for world leaders.The World
Meteorological Organization has warned that the world might breach 1.5 C of warming for at least one year between 2023 and 2027
Crossing this threshold will bring increasingly devastating impacts to many parts of the world, scientists say.The 1.5 C temperature target
is a key goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement, an international pledge to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels
cover a wide range of topics during sessions organized by state agencies, businesses and scientific institutions, including climate finance,
energy transition, nature-based solutions and nuclear energy.Ahead of COP28, Edelgeriev saidRussia fully adheres to its climate commitments,
share in both historic and current emissions at about 5%.As the UN climate conference usually revolves around who is more responsible for
Reuters in June revealed that Russia is attempting to block European Union countries from hosting next year's UN climate negotiations,
declaration at the UN Sustainable Development Goals summit in New York, arguing that sanctions undermine efforts to achieve these
Moscow.One of them concerns phasing out fossil fuels
2030 and eliminate it almost entirely by 2050 in order to stay below the 1.5 C mark.But achieving progress in this regard can be
challenging, given that certain countries continue to heavily rely on their fossil fuels of choice, with China and India preferring coal and
the United States and Russia preferring oil and gas, Vasily Yablokov from the Coalition for Sustainable Development of Russia and a UN
enshrined in its Climate Doctrinereleasedone month ahead of COP28
principle at international platforms to promote nuclear energy.Besides nuclear power, the principle of technological neutrality might also
Russia plans to showcase its Pleistocene Park experiment, which aims to restore Arctic ecosystems by reintroducing ancient wildlife
Russia will advocate for anything in order to leave the main portion of its emissions untouched and somehow report that everything is going
before the war in Ukraine there was still hope that the simulation of climate policy could turn into real action due to economic incentives
finance, another issue that will dominate COP28, might be less of a nerve point for Moscow since it is not obligated to provide financial
for developing countries receiving climate financing..
voluntary donors, including Russia, which are not recipients [of climate finance], this conference is significantly less important."
