Russia And Their Environmental Policies

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of increased frequencies and severity of natural phenomena such as floods, winter melts, and gas leaks. According to Russian Natural Resources Minister Yury Truntyev, "Over the last 100 years, sea levels have risen approximately 10 centimetres - if this tendency continues they will rise by 10 to 20 centimetres by 2050. If the oceans rise by 10 centimetres by 2050 to 2070, a significant portion of St. Petersburg and Yamal could flood - if they rise by 20 centimetres the Arkangelsk and Murmansk regions are at risk of flooding as well as a number of other regions in the country." This in itself is proof of the severity and importance Russia places on the negotiations and fundamental policies members of the UN can agree and act upon.

Russia supports the position of the Kyoto Protocol to offset the carbon emissions of the world. Although strongly believes that other key polluters need to re-access the importance they place on the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol policies. In ...

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gases than their commitments require when in fact they should be exploring ways to reduce, not increase, their emissions.

· CDM systems have been criticised by nations for being too expensive and for improvements to be made it is necessary for the responsible parties to lower the transaction costs of CDM's to allow for future development.

· Improvement of CDM technology transfers needs to be made, as developing countries will be negatively affected by the free trade scheme, which will ultimately lead the developing countries into more dependence from the developed nations of the world.

:: The development responsibly to projects in agriculture, planted forests, ...

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