Russia promotes collective solutions to climate issues, distinguishing itself from the eco-extremist tendencies observed in Western countries, Alexei Drobinin, Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Russian Foreign Ministry, wrote in an article published in International Living magazine.
"We acknowledge the existence of problems in the sphere of ecology and climate. We advocate for finding collective solutions to address them. However, the Western approach is increasingly taking on features of eco-extremism," he said.
In this context, the diplomat highlighted the imposition of the strictest standards and norms of "green transformation" on the countries of the global South, where developed nations historically placed harmful industrial production.
"Developing states are compelled to undergo an energy transition, involving a drastic reduction in the use of fossil resources and the discontinuation of investments in the development of the traditional fuel and energy complex," - Drobinin emphasized. - "The calculation, following neocolonial logic, aims to extract super profits from the supply of products with 'green' technologies and establish long-term subordination of the energy sector to American and European transnational companies, including for channeling funds into their own energy transition."
The director of the department emphasized that "as a result, many countries risk falling into energy poverty and, as a consequence, face a lack of resources for development." "Western nations themselves, for example in the EU, do not hesitate to increase coal and fuel oil generation if necessary," the diplomat pointed out.
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Based on materials from TASS