Russia's carbon neutrality must be achieved by 2060, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the G20 summit via video link on Sunday, October 31.
"Counting natural gas, the lowest-carbon fuel among hydrocarbons, the share is 86%", Putin noted.
It is one of the best indicators in the world, Putin stressed. He...
A recent deadly explosion at a military testing site in northwestern Russia hasn’t posed any radiation threat, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday, without specifying the circumstances of the mysterious incident, the Associated Press reports.
Putin emphasized that neighboring nations haven’t recorded any spike in radioactivity.
“These are the objective...
Waste management is one of the growing environmental problems of Russia’s Moscow Region, as local authorities look to lessons from the European Union’s expertise in an effort to eliminate huge waste dumps inherited from the Soviet era, New Europe reports.
“In Russia, nobody paid serious attention to waste management...
Russia’s biggest restaurant group is counting on the country’s meat-loving population to embrace Meatless Mondays, a global health initiative encouraging people around the world to go meatless one day a week, The Moscow Times reports.
Rosinter launched their Meatless Mondays initiative in restaurants in six major cities mid-October. It encourages...
Russian authorities said the fuel spill at an Arctic power station earlier in 2020 was the largest in world history, a top emergencies official said Thursday, The Moscow Times reported.
Some 21,000 tons of oil poured into the surrounding ground and waterways near the city of Norilsk after a diesel...
Russian food retailer X5 Group has teamed up with Coca-Cola to test “reverse vending machines” in its Pyaterochka stores in Moscow, Cre.ru reports.
The retailer aims to use the initiative to collect and recycle used plastic bottles and aluminium beverage cans. The vending machines will dispense a 15% discount coupon,...
According to a Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology study published by the business newspaper Kommersant, eleven endangered species are now “likely extinct” in Russia.
According to the evaluation, these species include the European sea sturgeon, crested ibis, western capercaillie, Jankowski's Bunting, monk seal, onager, and Przewalski's horse.
While overhunting and...
U.S. biotechnology company Genetic Immunity has granted an exclusive license of its trans-dermally delivered plasmid DNA-based therapeutic HIV vaccine technology to Russian company Pharmadis, the two firms said in a statement.
Under the agreement, Pharmadis received rights to market Genetic Immunity's HIV technology in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States...
According to a collaborative research by two European climate think tanks, the world's first carbon border tax planned by the European Union is expected to impact Russia the most while leaving Chinese commerce relatively unaffected, Reuters reports.
In July, the EU proposed a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), or CO2...
Russia is looking for ways to develop a market for hydrogen in Europe, a move that would help maintain demand for one of its primary exports as governments everywhere work to cut pollution, Business Times reports.
With Europe working to make dramatic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, Russia is...