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Russia's position at the seventy-eighth session of the UN General Assembly:
Climate change
We attach great importance to international cooperation in addressing
climate change. We regard the
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its
Paris Agreement as the main international legal mechanisms to achieve a durable solution to the climate issue. We consider it important to strictly adhere to the provisions of the Paris Agreement in terms of keeping the average global temperature increase within the range of 2–1.5° C and achieving
carbon neutrality in the second half of the century rather than by
2050.
We oppose the "blurring" of the mandate of the UNFCCC and the establishment of a system of treaty obligations duplicating it. The division of labour between environmental mechanisms should be respected while avoiding the creation of artificial overlaps making it harder to pursue common goals and interests.
❗️ We are convinced that climate action should build on
non-discriminatory international cooperation with due regard for economic realities and interests of all the countries concerned.
We oppose linking climate and security agendas and vesting peacekeeping missions with unnatural climate-monitoring functions. By doing so, major donor states are seeking to shrug off the responsibility for economic problems faced by least developed countries.
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