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What have been the Russian Negotiating Positions on the Kyoto mechanisms?
What have been the arguments in Russia for and against ratifications of Kyoto Protocol?
What have been/were the arguments in Russia for and against ratifications of Kyoto Protocol?
Who were/are RussiaÕs Kyoto stakeholder players?
What has been RussiaÕs history regarding Kyoto?
Andrei Illarionov, still frame from NTV channel
Meeting of the Russian Cabinet of Ministers / Frame from NTV Channel
Why did Russia ratify the Kyoto Protocol?
Cap and Trade:
 Data for Two Case Studies
Carbon Intensity by Region, 2001-2025 (Metric Tons of Carbon Equivalent per Million $1997)
Impacts of Economic Reform  & Technical Energy Savings on Energy Consumption
Scenarios for Russian CO2 emissions assuming growth rates of 2, 4, 6, and 7.2% (GDP doubling in 10 years) for fast and slow intensity improvements
Kyoto Cross
Russian GDP and Energy Intensity Projections
World energy-related CO2 emissions in 2003, by country (25.2 GtCO2)
RUSSIAN FEDERATION Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions (in 1000s metric tons C).
Greenhouse gases (in CO2 equivalents) in Russian Federation
 by sectors, 1990 & 2004.
Illustration 2. Share of different greenhouse gases in total discharge in Russia (in CO2 equivalents), 1990 & 2004.
Fig. 5.  Dynamic discharge of greenhouse gases 1990, 1998, 2000-2004, without consideration of land use, land use change and forestry.

Source: 4th National Communication in Compliance with Articles 4 & 12 of the Framework Convention of United Nations about Climate Change and Article 7 of the Kyoto Protocol (Moscow 2006), p. 9. In Russian.
Discharges of Green House Gases in million of metric tons
 Table I.13.  Characteristics of Scenarios of Emissions of Kyoto Gases in the Russian Federation to 20201
Estimated GHG emissions in 2004 & potential for reductions in RussiaÕs natural gas sector & gas flaring
Import Economic Growth factors
Per-capita economic & emission growth rates for Economies in Transition, 1995-2001.
Key Kyoto mechanisms
Generic  potential JI project types by sector
What are/were the elements/needs for Russian institutional compliance?
Status and Importance of Regional GHG Inventories in Russia
What were/are the Russian major compliance/data gap problems?
Russian Kyoto Compliance Summary
Russian Challenges to Creation of a Strong Climate-Change-Related Policy and Strategy
Significant Results Arising from Russian Ratification of Kyoto
Benefits to Russia from Kyoto Ratification
Key Challenges to Russia as a Result of Its Ratification of Kyoto Protocol
Some unanswered Big Questions
Focusing forward
Climate Change in the Arctic:
Beating a retreat

The Economist
September 24th, 2011
p. 99
http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/09/melting-arctic-sea-ice-and-shipping-routes
The North-South Ecological Space Problem
What is the major obstacle to effective climate change control?
Military spending
2007 U.S. Domestic Budget Proposal
News from the Climate Talks (COP-17) in South Africa
EEZ Boundaries
Gorbachev calls
for new vote
in RussiaÕs
disputed elections
Not What Mr. Putin Planned
Natural Gas
Map of Transneft and CIS Main Oil Pipelines
Russian Natural Gas Production