An interview with Andrei Illarionov :

“We are defending our economic interests,” he tells me. “So the chances of us ever signing Kyoto are low. The Russian Academy of Science has just reported, after lengthy hearings, that Kyoto won’t help meet the goals of the UN climate change convention, and that it will undermine growth.”

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“Signing Kyoto is counter-productive,” says Illarionov. “A relatively poor country like Russia will only improve environmentally if it becomes wealthy. So we need more growth to have more money for environmental measures.”
The Russian government – like that of many emerging markets – suspects European countries of using the banner of environmentalism to deny potential competitors the chances they once had. “The EU countries have high environmental standards today not because they pursued green policies during the 19th century, but because they achieved rapid growth. We should do the same.”

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“America hasn’t ratified Kyoto,” he says, smiling once again. “And America is a very advanced country, is it not? So perhaps us Russians should follow America’s example.”
The smile has now gone. And lest the EU feel left out, Illarionov lashes Europe too. “I notice EU growth isn’t exactly galloping along,” he observes. “You need to remove all possible obstacles to growth – like Kyoto. There will come a time, perhaps very soon, when the EU will be grateful to Russia for not ratifying Kyoto. You will say ‘Thank you Russia, we’re glad you were a little bit smarter than us’.”

As Illarionov is the main advisor to Putin on these matters, perhaps Kyoto really is dead.