Russia takes on climate challenge
Russian government leaders this week pledged budget funds for clean energy and called for limits on greenhouse gas emissions. The new Russian green focus comes after a period of major reluctance to embrace the Kyoto Protocol.
“We must limit ourselves. We must limit any emissions that accelerate global warming or simply pollute the environment,” Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov told a conference Wednesday.
His comments came a day after President Dmitry Medvedev called an ad hoc meeting of top government officials to discuss clean and efficient energy, a theme he has driven to the foreground since coming to power in May, the Moscow Times reports.
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