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Published on: 23. February 2023

The war also damages Russia's climate policy

KHANTY-MANSI AUTONOMOUS AREA, RUSSIA - 21, 2020: A helicopter battles a wildfire in the taiga in Sovetsky District of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area, north-west Siberia. On 14 July 2020, the local authorities declared a state of emergency in wooded areas of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area. Since the start of the fire season , more than 240 wild fires covering an area of more than 29,000 hectares have been reported in the region. Denis Bushkovsky/TASS PUBLICATIONxINxGERxAUTxONLY TS0E0B30

One year after the start of the Ukraine war, Russia's climate policy continues to favor natural gas, nuclear power and a controversial statistic that records forests as carbon sinks. Moscow discredits the international climate process as Western power politics. And climate action is also hampered by war and sanctions.

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