The Role of the National Climate Law in Ensuring “Energy Transition”

The paper is devoted to the identification, analysis and assessment of potential threats and risks associated with the implementation of the Federal Law of July 2, 2021 No. 296-FZ «On Limiting Greenhouse Gas Emissions». Based on the results of a study of the provisions of the Federal Law (in particular, the rules related to the implementation of climate projects, the creation of legal mechanisms and the market for trading carbon units, a monitoring system, incentives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, etc.), the authors outline the most controversial and debatable issues and problems that can potentially affect the effectiveness of the implementation of the law in question. The role of the national climate law in ensuring the «energy transition» is also substantiated. It is proved that it is necessary to adopt a special Climate Law of the Russian Federation, as well as to introduce a number of adjusting changes into the regulatory legal acts regulating public relations in the field of ecology, economics, and technology, medicine, transport, construction, infrastructure and communications.

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