Climate change threatens Russia’a North
Speaker in the Russian Federation Council, Mr. Sergey Mironov, says global warming poses a major threat to infrastructure and societies in the Russian far north. He now proposes the establishment of international institutions on Arctic risk management and catastrophe prevention.
Commenting on this week’s G8 session, which had the climate issue high on its agenda, Mr. Mironov said that international humanitarian projects of today are focusing mostly on catastrophe management and little on prevention. The parliament speaker also called for the establishment of a global fund prevention and handling of climate change risks. He believes the 16 leading industrialized countries of the world easily could provide 30-40 billion USD to the fund. At the same time, Mr. Mironov underlined that international institutes on climate monitoring must not act in the interests of a country or a group of countries, and should not be used to put pressure on national governments.
