At the forum, the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment delivered a report at the roundtable, Russia’s Green Agenda: A Sustainable Approach to Drive Russian Productivity and Competitiveness.
Mr Donskoi said that the state had set itself the goal of increasing in the next seven years the proportion of used and sterilised production and consumption waste from 11% to 80%, thereby creating what will be in essence an industry for handling solid household waste.
The Minister told the participants of the meeting about the Government’s initiatives to rectify past environmental damage, create an industry for processing and recycling waste, and carrying out environmental upgrades of enterprises by introducing the best available technologies. In particular, he recalled that the Ministry is finalising the drafting of an approved federal targeted programme, Eliminating the Accumulated Environmental Damage, in 2014-2025. In addition, work is nearly finished on a list of priority projects which are geographically spread over 45 Russian regions. “All in all, we are planning to spend over 165 billion roubles from the federal budget on implementing the projects to eliminate the accumulated damage,” the Minister said.
Source: Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment
