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Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech for the opening day of the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris, France, November 30, 2015.
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech for the opening day of the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris, France, November 30, 2015.
US President Barack Obama, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russia's President Vladimir Putin were among those who have delivered their speeches today. The Russian leader revealed his country's efforts in fighting with global warming that slowed down the process for at least a year.
"We have gone beyond the target fixed by the Kyoto Protocol for the period from 1991 to 2012. Russia not only prevented the growth of greenhouse gas emission, by also significantly reduced it," Putin said. "Nearly 40 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent weren't released into the atmosphere. As a comparison, the total emissions of all countries in 2012 reached 46 billion tons."
Russia is planning to keep progressing by bringing breakthrough technologies into practice, "including nanotechnology," Putin continued saying the country is also open to exchange and share the findings. Apart from that, Putin has also promised Russia will reduce its polluting emissions by 70 percent by 2030 as compared to base level in 1990. A new agreement must lay emphasis on the role of forests as major greenhouse gases absorber, Putin said. This would be especially important to Russia with its large forest lands. Preserving the lungs of our planet is a top priority, he added. Russia is also going to provide financial and other support to developing countries willing to deal with climate change.
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Comment: Does Putin actually believe any of this? Not likely. The time period he refers to includes the 1990s, during which the Russian economy contracted so violently that, of course, its industrial output, and thus 'carbon footprint', was drastically reduced. What happened to Russia and the other former Soviet Republics then is what the Western elite want for all 'lesser' countries everywhere: massive cutbacks so that there is more for them and less for everyone else, all under the guise of 'saving the planet', of course.
In any event, natural global cooling is the real climate event they're covering up. German scientists predict, based on declining sunspot activity and natural climate oscillation, that the world will cool over the next century. Temperatures will eventually drop to levels corresponding with the 'little ice age' of the 17th-18th centuries.
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