Putin on climate change, a record for the sick. The main thing over the weekend

Putin warned about the consequences of climate change for Russia, almost 41 thousand cases of COVID-19 were detected in the country for the first time, announcer Igor Kirillov died. The main thing for the weekend - in the review of RBC

Putin warned about the consequences of global warming

According to the president, Russia is facing desertification, soil erosion and melting permafrost. Vladimir Putin clarified that the average annual temperature in Russia is growing faster than the global one and has increased by almost half a degree in ten years. “In the Arctic, the rate of warming is even faster,” he said at a meeting of the G20 summit.

The G20 leaders announced the need to achieve carbon neutrality throughout the planet by the middle of the 21st century. In addition, the G20 countries called for "meaningful and effective" action to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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Ruslan Edelgeriev, the president's special envoy for climate issues, said in an interview with RBC that "Russia has a great absorption potential in forests and ecosystems." “Therefore, we start with the forestry sector. A number of decisions have already been made, the president has allocated an additional 24 billion rubles. to fight [forest] fires,” he explained.