“There is a growing tendency for developed countries to abuse environmental slogans in order to promote their narrowly selfish opportunistic, including economic interests,” Lavrov said, his words are quoted by TASS.

Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Economic Development said that unilateral sanctions threaten to solve the climate problem.

In early August, Ilya Kalenkov, General Director of PJSC Evropeyskaya Elektrotekhnika, in a conversation with FBA Economics Today, expressed the opinion that Russia should not imitate Western countries that use the “green agenda” to the detriment of the interests of fossil fuel producers.