Go to media bankMOSCOW, Oct 7The West is abusing environmental slogans to advance its interests and is trying to shift responsibility for failures in the carbon neutrality policy to others, including the Russian Federation, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. It is obvious that the West is trying to shift responsibility to others, including our country, both for the inevitable failures in its own policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and for the more than likely failure of global efforts to achieve carbon neutrality. by the middle of this century,” reads the minister’s address at the final meeting of the International Cross-Party Conference “Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development”, published on the ministry’s website. /> September 30, 10:11 a.m. The pad uses the environmental agenda to destabilize, said PatrushevLavrov noted that Westerners have long been trying to blur the mandate of relevant international legal instruments in the field of climate change.
"Into these mechanisms, issues that do not have a direct relationship with the core issues are compulsively pushed through. We are talking about peace and security, migration, human rights and gender equality. Extremely alarmist rhetoric is spreading everywhere, which is repeatedly reinforced by the leading Western media and NGOs. Such controversial concepts as "environmental rights" and "climate justice", Lavrov added.
According to him, the obsession with the ideology of the «climate crisis» has acquired the character of painful dependence and a quasi-religious cult among some representatives of the political and public circles of Western countries. «Against this background, it is important to promote a unifying environmental agenda on international platforms based on a reasonable balance between environmental aspects and social economic development on the basis of scientific substantiation of all decisions made,” the Russian Foreign Minister noted. He stressed that Russia is firmly committed to deepening mutually respectful and mutually beneficial cooperation in the interests of strengthening environmental security based on the principles of international law. “We believe that only such an approach can ensure sustainable development in harmony with nature will make it possible to find new points of contact with foreign partners, including in the Asia-Pacific region, the development of relations with the states of which is among the unconditional priorities of our foreign policy,» — concluded Lavrov.
August 31, 13:55 The EU environmental agenda has been sent to the trash today, Miller said