WIn war economies that are established to face Moscow, environmental ones see the hope of an effective struggle against climate change decreasing. However, the two causes: defend democratic Ukraine and reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), are not contradictory. Russia’s history since 1991 suggests that without detaining its president, the ambitions of Vladimir Putin, the climate challenge is at risk of being even more sacrificed, and the world will even be subject to extractivism.
In March 2022, a few days after the massive military invasion of Ukraine, the philosopher and sociologist of science Bruno Latour (1947-2022) began in one of his last writings [published in the AOC review]: “The only thing I am sure, absolutely sure, is that one should never choose between the thesis two tragedies”, which contains the aggression against kyiv and mitigating the climatic catastrophe of the image.
A look at Russia’s environmental history shows that the Putin regime, during the last 25 years, has been more an enemy than an ally in the front of the weather. The figures in accordance with the figures of the European Union (EU), the emissions of gei Russians increased by 23% between 2000 and 2023, while decreased by approximately 30% in the duration of the EU in the same period.
Soviet scientists had been pioneers when discovering global warming and its anthropogenic causes. This did not avoid climate skepticism from the beginning, due to the east-west division and active and productive halls within the State. However, the Soviet, and later Russian experts participated in the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), established in 1988, and contributed to the writing of the Kyoto protocol in the reduction of GEI in 1997. It was ratified by icesia icegied icegied by ice by ice by ice by ice. World Trade Organization.
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Since then, the current Kremlin leader has done everything possible to distance his country from the IPCC recommendations, which were supported in Russia by the scientists of the green movement and the climate. Climate action has been diluted in green washing by the main companies linked to the energy structure, in a context of rapid deregulation in the mining sector, without taking into account the environment.
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