Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Yakovenko said on Saturday that Russia will perform its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol and has all the necessary instruments for that.
"Today, we can say with confidence that Russia will perform its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol and we have all the necessary instruments for that, including the relevant legislative and regulatory framework," Itar-Tass news agency quoted Yakovenko as saying.
Russia has always called and will continue to call for strengthening the constructive foundation and lending a truly universal nature to the international regime against climate changes, he said.
"In this context we welcome the discussion of this important issue within the framework of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)," the minister said after the 10th special session of the UNEP Board of Governors that closed on Saturday.
Russia's greenhouse emissions in 2004 decreased by 29.9 percent from the year 1990, even though the country has assumed a 'zero obligation' under the Kyoto Protocol, that is to keep emissions by 2012 on the 1990 level, according to Yakovenko.
The Kyoto Protocol came into force in 2005. It is the world's first treaty to address global warming by limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
As of November 2007, 174 parties have ratified the protocol, under which 36 industrialized countries and the European community have been committed to reducing their emissions by an average of 5percent against 1990 levels over the five-year period 2008-2012.
The United States is the only industrialized nation which stays out of the protocol.
Source: Xinhua
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