Abstract The changes in the main climate variables that determine the atmospheric hydrological cycle and the hydrological regime of land (surface air temperature and precipitation) are considered for the first decades of the 21st century, as well as in comparison with the most significant changes during the 20th century. Regional changes in seasonal climate statistics…
Category: environment
Comparing climate risk across Russian regions
Abstract Climate risks pose a threat to the economy and the society, making their accurate assessment crucial for effective adaptation strategies. However, such estimates are complicated due to incomplete data on the potential risk-related damages. In this study, we apply a simplified heuristic approach using the hazard-exposure-vulnerability framework to assess climate risks in Russia. We…
Green infrastructure – what’s growing or not – in urban subarctic Western Siberia
Abstract The northern part of western Siberia, which comprises the Khanty-Mansiysk and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Districts of Tyumen Oblast, Russia, is one of the most urbanized areas exposed to the subarctic climate. Here, we study the specific socio-natural interactions affected by the development of urban green infrastructure in such climatic zones as middle and northern taiga,…
Decarbonizing Russia: Lessons from global carbon pricing practices
Abstract Climate change mitigation increasingly relies on carbon pricing as a core policy tool. This study investigates the applicability of such mechanisms within the Russian context, given the country’s heavy fossil fuel dependence and evolving energy landscape. A mixed-method approach is used, combining case studies (EU ETS, Nordic carbon taxes, Sakhalin pilot) with scenario modeling based…
Tea bag monitoring of soil quality across 3000km of European Russia
Abstract The increasing popularity and recognition of citizen science approaches to monitor soil health have promoted the idea to assess soil microbial decomposition based on a standard litter sample – tea bags. Although tea bag initiatives are expanding across the world, the global datasets remain biased in regard to investigating regions and biomes. This study…
Comparing Green Smart Cities in Russia and China
In full (RU) Abstract: With the in-depth development of Big Data and artificial intelligence, as well as the strengthening of the concept of green and low-carbon development, a new concept has emerged in the system of urban functioning — “green smart city”. Currently, the level of urbanization and urban development in Russia and China is…
Trends and prospects for the development of a national model climate legislation from the Russian Federation
Abstract: The article identifies the main gaps and conflicts of the climate legislation of Russia, examines the ways to solve them and trends in the development of judicial practice to protect the climate rights of citizens. For the first time, the authors developed the category “conditions for the implementation of climate policy”, which represents legal…
Evaluating carbon emissions and removals from Russia’s trade in harvested wood products
Abstract Harvested wood products (HWP) are carbon reservoirs that remain underutilized in decarbonization policies due to the superficiality of carbon flux estimates in international trade in forest products. This paper focuses on the emissions and removals associated with Russia’s foreign trade in HWP. For the first time, we provide estimates of these carbon fluxes for…
Bee breadmaking becomes renewable in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan researchers alongside Ryazan researchers, investigated the energy processes required for the two stage drying processes involved in the extraction of bee bread. Bee bread is used for medicinal purposes for a range of treatments. For Kazakhstan’s high solar energy potential, providing a renewable drying energy source could reduce costs, increase bee happiness and sustainability…
Heartwood and carbon in NW Russian pine trees
Heartwood (HW) has a major proportion of a tree trunk, compared with its outer sapwood (SW). Researchers investigated the carbon accumulation to understand the depths of carbon sequestration in pine species in north-western Russia. They mentioned that 64% of the forests of Russian Karelia are Scots Pine which they compared across lingonberry (30% Karelia, 42%…
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