Putin Pimps 2060 Net-Zero Plan Which Depends On Russia's Forests Absorbing More Carbon Then They Can

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Even as large swaths of the Siberian forest have burned during summer wildfires — made increasingly worse by climate change — the Kremlin’s strategy to slash emissions is a bet on those same trees. President Vladimir Putin announced earlier this month that Russia “will strive” for carbon neutrality by 2060 — its most ambitious climate goal.

But how Russia plans to accomplish that has been met with criticism and skepticism. Putin claimed earlier this year that Russia’s vast territory, especially its forests, could neutralize “several billion [metric] tons” of carbon dioxide emissions — a figure climatologists say is unrealistic and undermines the viability of his carbon-neutrality pledge.

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“The statements Russia makes at [the U.N. climate conference] can often be considered as window dressing,” said Anna Korppoo, a research professor at Norway’s Fridtjof Nansen Institute, specializing in Russia’s climate policy. “You have to say that you’re doing something,” she added, “but then there’s the other question of whether that something is concrete.” It’s not enough, she noted, to make pledges by “simply recalculating” how much carbon a forest absorbs. Russia has long faced criticism for setting weak climate targets and not doing more to curb the carbon footprint of its massive fossil fuel industry. Experts at the Climate Action Tracker, which monitors countries’ climate promises, rate Russia’s 2030 target under the Paris climate agreement as “highly insufficient.”

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To meet a Putin goal of reducing Russia’s carbon emissions to below the E.U.’s level by 2050, Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development outlined four strategies in a draft proposal seen by The Washington Post. Three of the scenarios hinge on Russia’s ecosystems — forests, tundra, swamps and more — absorbing at least 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide in 30 years, double what they do now, according to most studies. Putin insists the number can be as high as 2.5 billions tons of carbon dioxide.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russia-carbon-cop26-forests/2021/10/26/a5b8948c-2860-11ec-8739-5cb6aba30a30_story.html

[exboyfil]

1. I think we have reached the bargaining phase of grief

The thing about that is the environment doesn't get a s__t.

[hatrack]

2. Yep, physics gonna physic

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[SergeStorms]

3. Putin's bullshit sounds....

alarmingly like republican bullshit.

You don't suppose they could be sharing tips on how to "govern", do you?