Stop, warming!

As a collapse of the USSR economy allows Putin 25 years later to report on the successes of Russia in the fight against global warming

The visit of Vladimir Putin to the UN climate conference was interested in many journalists and observers primarily in the context of important events in world politics- complicated Russian-Turkish relations , the Russian-French union in the fight against terrorism and, in general, the situation in Syria . Will Putin say hello to Turkish President Recep Erdogan? Will US President Barack Obama to reconcile Erdogan and Putin try? Will the Russian leader continue to demonstrate his disposition to Francois Hollande to convince the world that he has not become an outcast and without efforts of Russia in the fight against ISIS can not do to humanity? Behind these and other issues, Putin’s very presentation at the environmental conference was a little in the shadow, which is designed to develop new rules of the game for the world community in the fight against global climate changes.

Putin’s speech lasted less than 5 minutes and accommodated several basic theses written in the style of bravura reports on the results of the Soviet five -year -olds. "Russia is taking active steps," "comes out in the first place," "exceeds obligations." Putin even recalled a word that was at the peak of fashion during the presidency of Dmitry Medvedev - "Nanotechnology". His whole speech suggests that Russia is destined to become a locomotive in the salvation of mankind from an environmental disaster. Is this really so - we asked the head of the energy program "Greenpeace of Russia" by Vladimir Chuprov .

Vladimir Putin:

"Russia is taking active steps to solve the problem of global warming" and "exceeded the obligations on the Kyoto protocol due to the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 30–35%, or 40 billion tons."

Vladimir Chuprov:

"Russia really made a great contribution to the fight against climate change. In 2004, the Russian parliament ratified the Kyoto protocol thanks to Putin’s personal intervention. After the United States left the Kyoto Protocol in 2001, this allowed him to earn again. But the decrease in emissions that Putin speaks did not occur due to the actions of the government, but for objective economic reasons, after 20 years ago, after the collapse of the USSR."

Vladimir Putin:

"Russia has come first in terms of a reduction in the energy intensity of the economy."

Vladimir Chuprov:

In Russia, almost every second ton of coal or oil is burned just like that

"Yes, the reduction in the energy intensity has occurred all over the past at least until 2010, and it took a very rapid pace. But it was associated with a change in the structure of the economy. The heavy industry left, the banking sector and the service sector developed. This sector did not require large emission of greenhouse gas. At the same time, they grew up for GDP . Therefore, when recalculating our emissions for each emissions. The ruble of the GDP, but the technical potential of the energy intensity of the economy has not been realized in Russia Modernized, but slowly.

Vladimir Putin:

"Russia expects by 2030 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 70% of the 1990 level."

Vladimir Chuprov:

"Now state policy, unfortunately, is on the contrary, aimed at increasing emissions. These figures are under a big question. If we look at the country's energy strategy until 2035 , then in Russia it is supposed to increase primary energy consumption, mainly due to oil, coal and gas, by 25%. In fact, we are far from disruption of our own obligations, far from not ambitious, and this was recorded in the official officials documents ".

Vladimir Putin:

"Thanks to the contribution, Russia managed to slow down global warming for a year."

Vladimir Chuprov:

"In Russia, they simply calculated how much the country has not thrown into the atmosphere of greenhouse gases since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The same 40 billion tons that are equal to the annual world volume of emissions. Everything is correct here. It is different that at the same time, when Russia reduced the domestic consumption of oil, gas and coal, it increased their export to Soviet indicators. It was burned in other countries.

Vladimir Putin:

"The economy is modernized. Environmentally friendly and energy -saving technologies are being introduced."

Vladimir Chuprov:

Norilsk Nickel plant Oleg Deripaska in Norilsk is planned to be closed as outdated in 2016

"Energy -saving technologies are being introduced, Putin has not lied here. The question is how largely this is the introduction. They are introduced very, very little in industry, projects can be counted on the fingers. Recently [Oleg] Deripaska translated the primary production of aluminum to more efficient technology, reducing the consumption of electricity for the production of each ton of aluminum by half. But if we look at Our black metallurgy, or housing and communal services, then, of course, we will not see such examples in our everyday life.

Vladimir Putin:

"The technology of additives based on carbon nanotubes developed in Russia, used in the field of energy conservation, according to experts, will reduce the emission of carbon dioxide in the country by 160-180 million tons by 2030."

Vladimir Chuprov:

Chairman of the Board of Rusnano Anatoly Chubais at the opening ceremony of the Dubna nanocenter, July 2014

"So far, nanotechnologies in Russia are at the development stage. Perhaps they are used somewhere at the level of scientific research and experimental design developments. The fact that they have been introduced widely, you can’t say so far. We need to see how it will be in practice, on a large scale, and does this not carry some hidden threat that we do not know about. Because the nanotherapists are good, but if they begin to penetrate all over the matter, all over the matter, it begins to penetrate all over the matter. Included by this, it is unknown to the Chubais that nanotubes allow you to reduce the consumption of energy for each ton of materials by tens of percent, and if it really works, it will correspond to the numbers that Putin speaks about. ”

Vladimir Putin:

"Russia has colossal forest resources and does a lot to preserve forests."

Vladimir Chuprov:

Forest Fire near Lake Baikal, August 2015

"The first part of the statement is correct, Russia has very large forest resources, this is true. But the president did not say that it quickly loses them. It is guilty primarily to the state whose policy leads to large -scale forest fires , to theft of forest, to the transfer of millions of forest hectares to the concession of China (information on such an initiative of the Rosleskhoz was refuted by this agency. RS) , as a result, that is now considered as a carbon stock, can turn into a source of carbon emissions.