Russia's Post-Paris Climate Policy: Slow Progress and Problems.

The Paris Agreement is exerting a positive influence on Russia's climate policy: the country's response is in the right direction, but progress is significantly slower than what is actually possible. Although the main problem is that Russia relies on a fossil-fuel-based national economy, the slow progress is also the result of objections from high-carbon businesses, and complications in figuring out how to account for forest CO2 absorption and large methane emissions in the natural gas sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]