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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Isabella Kaminski

Activists sue Russia over ‘weak’ climate policy

An oil processing facility outside the Siberian town of Nefteyugansk
Russia’s energy strategy focuses almost exclusively on extracting, consuming and exporting fossil fuels. Photograph: Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters

A group of activists are fighting for the right to scrutinise Russia’s climate policies, and in particular its enormous methane emissions, in court.

Russia’s constitutional court is considering a claim brought by 18 individuals and the NGO Ecodefense that insufficient action by the Russian state to cut national greenhouse gas emissions is violating their rights to life, health and a healthy environment.

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