Contribution assessment of a technological factor to reducing CO2emissions in Russia

P. Changwei,F.-J. Lin,J.-Y. Yoon,V.A. Stennikov,Mikhail Mishenin,N.A. Yusifbeyli,Vasily Nemov,S.V. Alekseenko,Irina Filimonova,M. Negnevitsky,N.I. Voropai,S.P. Filippov,B. Sereter,C. Rehtanz,Ekaterina Zemnukhova

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202020905013

Abstract

Currently, the economy should develop along an innovative way of development with an increase in the efficiency of the use of natural resources and a decrease in negative impacts on the environment to ensure stable economic growth and improve the quality of life of the population. The purpose of the study is to assess the environmental and energy effects that affect the environment and energy intensity in the country. The dynamics of greenhouse gas emissions in Russia are contemporaneously influenced by many different factors, such as the industry structure of the economy, the structure of the fuel and energy balance, the level of technological equipment, and the situation in world markets. Our analysis showed that the dynamics of CO2 emissions in Russia are determined primarily by the growth rates of the population’s well-being and by the growth of industrial production. At the same time, in the period 2000-2012, the effect of welfare growth was partially offset by a decrease in the energy intensity of the economy, but then the potential for reducing energy intensity due to changes in the structure of the economy was exhausted. The contribution of the technological factor is also insufficient. So for the period 2000-2017, the improvement of technologies in the field of heat and electric energy production from fossil energy sources made it possible to reduce CO2 emissions by only 33 million tons. Another significant constraint to the transition to a low-carbon trajectory of development is the low rate of implementation of energy-saving technologies in the production of energy-intensive industrial products, maintenance of residential and public buildings.

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IntroductionThe economy should develop along an innovative way of development with an increase in the efficiency of the use of natural resources and a decrease in negative impacts on the environment to ensure stable economic growth and improve the quality of life of the population
The economy should develop along an innovative way of development with an increase in the efficiency of the use of natural resources and a decrease in negative impacts on the environment to ensure stable economic growth and improve the quality of life of the population.The most intensive period of growth in emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere was from 1990 to 2010
The recovery of the Russian economy after the economic crises of the 1990s and the growth in the utilization of production capacities led to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions

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The economy should develop along an innovative way of development with an increase in the efficiency of the use of natural resources and a decrease in negative impacts on the environment to ensure stable economic growth and improve the quality of life of the population. The most intensive period of growth in emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere was from 1990 to 2010. During this period, carbon dioxide emissions increased by more than 45% (9.7 billion tons). At the same time, during the same period, CO2 emissions in European countries decreased by 13.6%, and in Russia and the CIS countries - by 32%. For the CIS countries, this is not caused by an increase in energy efficiency, but by a decline in industrial production

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