The agenda includes: extending the programme to subsidise preferential loans for the purchase of domestic aircraft; social support to citizens who had to leave the DPR and LPR; building a unified national system for monitoring active substances affecting climate; and financing the elimination of unauthorised city landfills and sources of accumulated environmental damage.
Mikhail Mishustin’s opening remarks:
Good afternoon, colleagues.
Before we move on to our agenda, I will tell you about the decision made to support the aviation industry.
A mechanism has been active for the past ten years for subsidising Russian leasing companies’ interest on loans for the purchase of Russian-made aircraft. This measure was effective, and helped the industry to increase the demand for aircraft.
As we can see, this mechanism continues to be useful in the context of external sanctions. Therefore, the Government is extending this programme and will continue to finance preferential loans for the purchase of 59 Sukhoi Superjet aircraft, including seven aircraft built this year. About 10 billion roubles have been allocated in the federal budget for this purpose. The corresponding resolution has been signed.
It is important that this will not only reduce the leasing companies’ costs, but will also partially compensate for the increasing financial burden on airlines, so that additional costs would not be passed on to passengers.
Now let’s get to the agenda. Under the President’ instructions, the Government has prepared all the documents needed to provide social assistance to the people who had to leave the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, or Ukraine, as well as to the stateless people who came to Russia. The Government has also defined the procedure for making payments and the rules for allocating funds to the Russian regions for these purposes. This year, nearly 10.5 billion roubles has been set aside to fulfill this.
The head of state has determined a list of support tools. From 1 July to the end of the year, monthly payments of 10,000 roubles are being distributed to seniors, or pensioners, and people with disabilities. A single parent will receive the same amount per child. Moreover, an extra payment of 3,000 roubles per month is envisaged for first-degree disabled people, children with disabilities, and persons who have come of age.
This year, Great Patriotic War veterans will be able to receive 5,000 roubles per month. Families with children under 18 and intramural students under 23 will receive 4,000 roubles per each. If a minor is under custody or under tutelage, the amount will be 15,000 roubles a month.
Also included are lump-sum payment benefits for pregnant women and new mothers after childbirth. This will allow the Government to help people at a difficult time and provide minimal financial support for further life.
Now let’s turn to the environment.
Many countries have been facing the consequences of climate change for a number of years. Both the economy and people are suffering. Heat waves, dried up rivers, and the lack of drinking water are just a few consequences observed in the EU countries this year.
Russia continues to support its economy’s adaptation to global climate change.
Creating a unified national system to monitor active substances affecting climate will be an important step towards forestalling the negative impacts of this change. This is an innovation project with state priority, and we will allocate 1.8 billion roubles for its implementation. The funds will be extended to dozens of research organisations across the country, which will conduct nearly 50 studies and other research.
These will include creating an improved system of forecasting, an ocean model with ice cover, a model of planetary climate over the past two centuries, a permafrost thaw monitoring system, and decarbonation scenarios for Russia and the world. Owing to this, national action programmes to fight desertification will be devised for 13 regions.
On the whole, the Government has set aside over 11 billion roubles for the next three years to finance the low-carbon agenda. We hope that the results of these studies will be presented before the end of this year. Specifically, this research effort will help prevent the negative impact of climate change on all economic sectors and on the quality of life.
Yet another issue concerns environmental protection.
The Government continues the clean-up in the Russian regions as part of the Clean Country project, eliminating unauthorised urban landfill sites and sources of accumulated damage. These have a negative impact on the environment and on people’s health.
To make these measures more effective, we will redistribute over 9.3 billion roubles to the Environment national project, with over 2.7 billion roubles to be extended before the end of this year, and the rest – during the next two years. This will make it possible to eliminate 40 environmentally hazardous sites in 36 cities and complete the reclamation of hundreds of hectares of land.
This work should be continued; it is extremely important for improving the quality of life and the environmental situation as a whole.
