Putin Sticks to Weak Climate Target as Other Nations Aim Higher
- Russia should get credit for forest absorption, Putin says
- Russia is one of few major economies without a net zero target
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President Vladimir Putin promised to “significantly reduce” Russia’s net accumulated emissions over then next three decades, but didn’t set out any changes to the nation’s unambitious targets.
Speaking via video link at a climate summit organized by his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden, Putin said that Russia, the world’s fourth-biggest polluter, should be given credit for reducing emissions since the end of the Soviet Union and for the absorption capacity of its vast forests.