Russia is creating a common voluntary carbon cargo market of the Eurasian Union
“We offer practical tasks for the formation of a voluntary market for carbon units. To do this, we need to solve several problems: we need to agree on large standards, and this carbon regulation is expanded to a voluntary type at the level of combination – this is the time. Secondly, we need to agree on who will verify and, accordingly, create an accreditation system for those who will verify and validate projects. And, accordingly, to agree on mutual recognition,” he said.
The minister noted that the synchronization of approaches to the climate agenda and the creation of a system of cross-border trading in carbon units is an incentive to achieve national goals to limit greenhouse gas emissions. It will also strengthen the position of the EAEU countries at specialized negotiating platforms, including within the framework of the Conferences of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Organization on the Use of Climate (COP).
Maxim Reshetnikov also proposes to consider the issue of producing a document that will consolidate the main areas of economic cooperation within the framework of climate practice.