Monthly Highlights from the Russian Arctic, October 2024
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution and climate change.
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Publish date: February 18, 2005
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International conference Cleaner production as a contribution to sustainable development is finishing in Moscow tomorrow. The aim of the cleaner production system is to minimize impact of industry, agriculture, transport and living complexes on environment. Russian-Norwegian Center, supported by Ministries of Natural Resources, has been implementing the Program in Russia for 10 years. Valentin Stepankov, Russian deputy minister of natural resources, said that implementation of this system allows to come to a model of sustainable development. The model will decrease impact on environment by establishing systems of rational use of the world natural resources. The Cleaner production program has proved the possibility of resource consuming reduction without new and expensive technologies, RBC daily reports.
The program was started in Russia after intergovernmental agreement about environmental safety cooperation between Russia and Norway in 1994. Nowadays 558 small and large Russian enterprises are implementing The Cleaner Production Program. The Program works in St. Petersburg, Novgorod, Republic of Karelia, Archangelsk, Murmansk, Lipetsk, Kaliningrad, Leningrad and other Russian regions.
Specialists of Russian Ministry of Natural Resources predict great economical and environmental effect in case the Program is implemented in the majority of the Russian enterprises. Unfortunately, the Program has been implemented not everywhere, because some directors of big Russian enterprises are not interested in impact reduction on the environment.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution and climate change.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
A visit last week by Vladimir Putin and a Kremlin entourage to Astana, Kazakhstan sought in part to put Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, on good footing with local officials.
Russia is formally withdrawing from a landmark environmental agreement that channeled billions in international funding to secure the Soviet nuclear legacy, leaving undone some of the most radioactively dangerous projects and burning one more bridge of potential cooperation with the West.