FfFfFfFF 58,120 Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 Russia aims to make the fossil-fuel rich Pacific island of Sakhalin carbon neutral by 2025, and later to extend the ambition to its top oil production province in western Siberia, a deputy prime minister said. Major listed oil and gas companies have set themselves goals to reduce emissions and increasingly are shifting their portfolios towards renewable energy. Viktoria Abramchenko, who oversees ecology, nature and agriculture in the Russian government, told Reuters Sakhalin, Russia's largest island, was working on how carbon neutrality could be achieved. "This is something we are interested in as we will work out a carbon reporting verification system for companies working in this region (on Sakhalin), and we will move on to testing the turnover of carbon units," Abramchenko said. Many countries at the climate talks rely on some form of absorbing emissions to achieve their targets of being “net zero” by 2050 — that is, emitting only as much greenhouse gas as can be recaptured by natural or artificial means. Source - https://www.newsweek.com/russia-moves-make-island-home-half-million-residents-carbon-neutral-2025-1647504, https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/russia-aims-make-sakhalin-island-carbon-neutral-by-2025-2021-06-02/, https://wtop.com/europe/2021/11/russia-comes-in-from-cold-on-climate-launches-forest-plan/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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