Russia in Global Affairs

Since it is unlikely that universalist claims of Western liberalism will evaporate any time soon, they will continue to produce a rationale for counter-ideological alignments.

A stronger climate policy is an integral part of the national agenda the way Russia’s leadership has formulated it. It can prompt measures to technically upgrade the economy and to shift to more efficient use of the available resources. That the Russian leadership’s interest in the climate issues has been growing is seen in the approval in December 2009 of the Climate Doctrine.