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)