Russia’s war in Ukraine is casting a long shadow on the debates and negotiations at the United Nations climate change conference COP27. MsReads via pass_blue
, even if current climate promises are kept. This is much higher than the originally agreed-upon goal of capping the rise at 1.5 C, or 2.7 F. The difference will likely lead to more catastrophic climate disasters, many experts say.
After the European Union sanctioned Russian oil and gas entities and relevant individuals at the start of the Ukraine war in February, Russia found alternative buyers. India and China now account for more than half of Russian seaborne oil exports, and they have been buying it at cheaper prices since April. Russia has become China’s biggest oil supplier. This undercuts European Union sanctions and enables Russia to flourish in its export of fossil fuels.
This is behavior that Arshak Makichyan, a prominent Russian climate and antiwar activist who was recently stripped of his citizenship in retaliation for his advocacy, saw at COP26, when Russia asked that Western sanctions be lifted on nuclear energy and sought to have it promoted for its own financial advantage. That shift would have helped to ensure Russia’s geopolitical stature as a provider of such energy.
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