The entire work on the development and realization of the regulations on the agreement, including financial issues, should be publicly available and open for public participation.
Numerous organizations, cities, and companies will show at COP-23 their successes in high-tech low-carbon development. This will be a direct demonstration of the feasibility of the Paris Agreement goal: to hold the temperature growth in the first half of the 21st century at the level below 2оC and strive for 1.5оC.
Presently, countries’ national goals on the greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 do not follow the 2оC way and should be strengthened by 20-30%. The goals were developed three years ago, and main changes have taken place in the past period: RESs became cheaper, global emissions stabilized and abandonment of coal power production started; these conditions should be incorporated into the strengthening of the goals. To facilitate reconsideration of the goals, the Dialogue-2018 will be organized at UN FCCC.
The COP-23 goal is to work out an effective format for the Dialogue-2018, get out of the frames of official countries’ presentations, attract all interested parties, and use all sources of information.
Energy efficiency and renewable energy sources are the priorities of Russia’s low-carbon development. This requires strengthening of the state support of those and developing of a RES roadmap for RF subjects. It should become the base for the long-term strategy of low-carbon development for the period until 2050 (its existence is required by the Paris Agreement). It should not include enhancement of the quota of NPSs and major dam HPSs in the country’s energy balance and should correspond to the global transfer to carbonless power production by the middle of the 21st century.
We stand for the reorientation of subsiding from fossil energy resources in favor of RESs and energy efficiency (with provision of the support to the most vulnerable groups of population and creation of “green” jobs).
We stress that the major water power engineering and nuclear power engineering cannot be considered as environmentally justified solutions for the reduction of human impact on the climate system of the Earth!
This Position was adopted by the network of the Russian Social and Ecological Union uniting more than 200 individual and group members (non-commercial organizations) from eight RF Federal Districts.