Another 29 cities with high levels of air pollution were included in the updated list of participants in the experiment on quotas of harmful emissions. The order was signed by the Chairman of the Government of Russia Mikhail Mishustin. The aim of the experiment is to halve the number of hazardous polluting emissions by 2030 compared to 2020.
According to the decree, the experiment includes: Abakan, Angarsk, Astrakhan, Achinsk, Barnaul, Gusinoozersk, Winter, Irkutsk, Iskitim, Kemerovo, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Kurgan, Lesosibirsk, Makhachkala, Kyzyl, Minusinsk, Novocherkassk, Petrovsk-Zabaikalsky, Rostov-on-Don, Svirsk, Selenginsk, Ulan-Ude, Usolye-Sibirskoye, Ussuriysk, Chegdomyn, Cheremkhovo, Chernogorsk, Shelekhov, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
Today, according to the federal Clean Air project, work is underway to reduce harmful emissions in 12 cities: Bratsk, Krasnoyarsk, Lipetsk, Magnitogorsk, Mednogorsk, Nizhny Tagil, Novokuznetsk, Norilsk, Omsk, Chelyabinsk, Cherepovets and Chita. For new participants, the experiment should begin on September 1, 2023. Summary calculations of pollution will be carried out in each city and a comprehensive plan to reduce emissions into the atmosphere will be approved.
To reach the level of the established quotas, industrial enterprises in these cities must undergo modernization. Also, the authorities of the cities participating in the experiment, with the financial assistance of the federal center, will take measures to reduce emissions into the atmosphere from the public sector and transport. The plans include the transfer of residential buildings from wood and coal heating to gas or electric, the repair of tram tracks and trolleybus networks, the purchase of more environmentally friendly models of public transport.
Funding for these activities will be provided within the framework of the federal Clean Air project.
The need to expand the experiment on emissions quotas was stated by the President of Russia Vladimir Putin during his address to the Federal Assembly in 2021.
In 2021, under the federal Clean Air project of the national Ecology project, 9 billion rubles were allocated for the first time for measures to reduce emissions of pollutants in six regions - the Trans-Baikal Territory, the Kemerovo Region, the Chelyabinsk Region, the Vologda Region, the Omsk Region, and the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
"In 2022, the Russian government will allocate 12.9 billion rubles to transfer the heating of private households in Omsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novokuznetsk and Chita from coal to alternative fuels. It is planned to co-finance the purchase, installation, installation of in-house gas or electrical equipment, metering devices and heating systems for citizens. Support will also be provided in the construction or reconstruction of electric grid facilities that are publicly owned and necessary for environmental modernization," commented the Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of Russia. Alexander Kozlov.
The government has increased the number of cities participating in the federal Clean Air project
Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia 08 July 2022 13:47
