Prospects for the implementation of forest climate projects in the Russian Federation in modern conditions
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The article analyzes the current state of state climate policy in the forestry sector of the Russian Federation, key approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and carbon accumulation in forest ecosystems, legislatively ap-proved regulations on forest climate projects, and the mechanism for their implementation. According to rough esti-mates by scientists, forests in Russia annually absorb about 600 million tons of CO2, that is, about a third of all green-house gas emissions in the country. In Russia, the total area of the forest fund is about 1.2 billion hectares, 78% of the forested lands of the forest fund belong to managed forests, where one of the most important factors of external influ-ence on the carbon cycle, in addition to interference in forest ecosystems in order to obtain forest resources, is the im-plementation of a complex of forestry measures. A number of studies have shown that carbon reserves and the rate of its deposition in forest ecosystems depend on the condition, species composition, age and commodity structure of for-ests. A reasonable choice of strategy for forest management, forest management, and forestry activities can have a significant impact on this aspect. Despite the fact that the forestry industry in our country has previously paid attention to measures to preserve the ecological potential of forests, adapt to climate change and increase forest sustainability, the system for assessing the effectiveness of their achievement required improvement. Until 2024, forest-climate initia-tives were not regulated by sectoral legislation, although the issue has been overdue for a long time and gained special importance after the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2016, in order to implement the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The amendments to the Forest Code of the Russian Federation that have entered into force regarding forest climate projects are aimed at increasing the possibilities of absorbing greenhouse gases from forest ecosystems and bringing Russia closer to carbon neutrality by 2060.
Source: Forestry Engineering Journal
Author: Leonid Vetrov
Institution: Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical University
Language: English
Topic: Forest Management and Policy
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDGs: Climate action, Life on land
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414832232
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