China News Agency, Moscow, March 12 (Reporter Tian Bing) The Russian government stated on the 12th that Russian Prime Minister Mishustin has approved the second phase of Russia's national action plan to adapt to climate change before 2025.
The official website of the Russian government issued a statement on the same day, stating that the government will continue to work on enabling Russia to adapt to global climate change and prevent negative impacts on the economic sector and the quality of life of the people.
Russian Prime Minister Mishustin has signed an order approving the second phase of the National Action Plan for Adapting to Climate Change.
The implementation period of the action plan is until 2025. It is divided into 17 measures according to different levels of the federation, department and federal subject, and provides necessary measures in terms of organization, law, scientific research and information security.
The action plan proposes to improve and perfect Russia's protection mechanism against natural disaster risks, create and introduce new technology programs for climate change research, compile a list of the best programs for Russia and the relevant economic sectors of the international community to adapt to climate change, and annually detect and evaluate the current situation. The effectiveness of countermeasures, etc.
In order to develop a climate risk management system, the action plan will introduce relevant data obtained with the help of spacecraft, create a special information resource library reflecting the situation of climate change in Russia, and include information on the characteristics of climate and various climate conditions in various regions of Russia.
Based on this, the probability of economic loss due to climate impacts is assessed and the vulnerable areas vulnerable to climate impacts are summarized.
The action plan emphasizes the need to intensify work in the Russian Arctic region, plans to monitor the soil condition and stability in settlements and production enterprises in the region, and makes technical recommendations based on the results of its analysis.
In addition, the action plan also puts forward requirements for relevant universities in Russia, including scientific research projects in response to climate change, professional training in the field of climate risk, and advanced training in the field of climate change risk in the economic sector.
In 2019, the Russian government approved the first phase of the national action plan to adapt to climate change until 2022.
Within its framework, relevant national systems have begun to form, clearly stipulating a series of specific tasks and goals for Russia to deal with climate change at this stage.
It is reported that the third phase of the national action plan to adapt to climate change before 2028 will be formulated by the end of 2025.
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