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The newsbreak for writing this article was a kind of jubilee: 25 years ago, in 1992, a conference in Rio de Janeiro adopted the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. This event became the first in a series of follow-up conferences and documents aimed primarily at limiting carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere to counter global warming. The author is an active advocate of the concept of the anthropogenic impact on climate as a leading factor in climate change. He stresses the positive potential of international agreements in this field and a new energy-environmental paradigm, which implies the development of low-carbon industry and transition to renewable energy sources and the “green” economy.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Akaev, 2017, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2017, Vol. 87, No. 7, pp. 587–598.
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Akaev, A.A. From Rio to Paris: Achievements, problems, and prospects in the struggle against climate change. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 87, 299–309 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331617040013
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Keywords
- global warming
- UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
- limit on the rise in surface temperature
- emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere
- decarbonization of the economy and energy industry
- development trend of the low-carbon energy industry
- renewable energy sources (RESs)
- new energy consumption paradigm
- economic growth
- Paris Climate Agreement