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General information
CIA World Fact Book Entry on Russia
Russian Federation Information @ OECD
Environmental information
Russia Geography and Climate @ Encyclopedia Britannica
Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring of Russia
Government agencies
Russian Federation Main Government Site
National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE)
Institute of Natural Resource Economics and Environmental Policy
International organizations
Russian Federation @ United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Russia @ United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Russia @ United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)
Russia 2020 Sustainable Development Goals Link
Nongovernmental organizations
· “aims to meet and fight the climate challenges, by identifying and implementing sustainable environmental solutions.”
Friends of the Earth International (FOEI) - Russia
Russian National Agency for Energy Saving and Renewable Energy
· This page does not have an English translation however, the Wikipedia is here
Russian Social Ecological Union
· Publishes articles on climate change, energy, and environmental policy.
· “This site is intended for support of interaction of members of the Russian Socio-Ecological Union
and their partners in activities on nature protection and participation in forming the national
environmental policy.”
Energy and industry
Long-Term Energy Strategy of Russia
International Energy Agency (IEA) - Russia Information Page
International Energy Agency (IEA) - Energy Policies Beyond IEA Countries: Russia 2014
"Russian approaches to energy security and climate change"
Climate change
Russia Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under UNFCCC
Climate Doctrine of the Russian Federation
Climate Policy Observer - Russian Federation Country Profile
Select readings on media coverage of climate change in Russia
Media coverage of climate change in Russia: Governmental bias and climate silence
· 2014 ~ Mariana Pobrezhskaya ~ SAGE Journals
· “explores which actors and factors influence media coverage of climate change in Russia” through the analysis of five Russian newspapers
Environmental Journalism in Russia and Bringing Climate Change Reporting to Russia
· Chapters 21 + 22 of Routledge Handbook of Environmental Journalism - 1st Edition
· 2020 ~ An gelina Davydova
· “As a scholarly and journalistic work written by academics and the environmental reporters
themselves, this volume is an essential text for students and scholars of environmental
communication, journalism, and global environmental issues more generally, as well as
professionals working in this vital area.”
Measuring and modeling Russian newspaper coverage of climate change
· 2016 ~ Constantine Boussalis, Travis G. Coan, Mariana Pobrezhskaya ~ Science Direct
· “offers a comprehensive investigation of newspaper coverage on climate change in Russia” since the Yeltsin era.
Climate Change Communication in Russia
· 2017 ~ Dmitry Yagodin ~ Oxford Research Publication of Climate Science
· “reviews the development of climate change communication as practice and as a field of
academic research in Russia...the article splits the discussion into two parts—the realities of
communication in climate politics and environmental communication”
Communicating Climate Change in Russia: State and Propaganda - 1st Edition
· 2016 ~ Mar iana Pobrezhskaya ~ Routledge
· “discusses how the state and economic elites have influenced Russia's environmental communication,
with the state's control of the media strengthening since Putin came to power, and with control being
exercised in some cases by ignoring or silencing the key issues.”
· 2021 ~ Dmitry Yagodin ~ International Political Science Review
· “As the country generally lacks substantial climate policy initiatives, the focus of this study is on
the symbolic policy reactions operationalized as the media coverage of climate change at the
national and regional levels in Russia during 2017–2018.”
Transportation
Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation
World Bank Report - Sustainable Urban Transport in Russia
· This link is a 2012 framework for improving national urban transit models
Oceans & marine
Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of Russian Academy of Sciences
Biodiversity
World Bank Report on Biodiversity Conservation in the Russian Federation
· This report while extensive, was published in 1997
Biodiversity Conservation Center (BCC) of Northern Eurasia
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) - Russia Page
Wildlife Conservation Society Russia
Lake Baikal
Cooper Gottfried, Leeza Barstein, and Aaron Pins of Brandeis University developed this page in 2022, 2021 & 2018 respectively.
Russia
Contents of this page:
· General information
· Environmental information
· Government agencies
· International organizations
· NGOs
· Energy & industry
· Climate change
· Select readings on media coverage of climate change in Russia
· Transportation
· Oceans & marine
· Biodiversity
· Lake Baikal
