Points in MedvedevÕs remarks to several ministers & senior aids

Create incentives for private sector to play in addressing climate change

Called for adapting governmentÕs Climate Doctrine, policy framework
Medvedev signed in 2009 - make in a Òliving documentÓ

Repeated his ideas in a speech a month later to the Russian Security Council

Asserted climate change is real

Global warming threatens RussiaÕs future

Acknowledged Russia has responsibility to address it both domestically & internationally

Argued, in effect that old policy-making patterns need to change
  (i.e., regulation-first approach and paper-tiger framework)

(Pattern of grand speeches with little concrete change or follow through)