The Climate Agenda in the European North of Russia and the North of the EU

Due to the greatest severity of the effects of climate change in the north, this work attempts to identify the features of climate regulation in the northern territories in Russia and EU (the European North of Russia, Sweden and Finland), similar in natural and climatic conditions. An analysis of strategic documents in the field of climate regulation demonstrated that Sweden and Finland have ambitious goals for both decarbonisation and adaptation to climate change. At the same time, some of these measures can provoke negative consequences, such as a decrease in the welfare of the population. At the same time, in most cases, tools similar to those used in Finland and Sweden are applied in the territory of the European North of Russia. The exception is such Russian practices as carbon landfills and farms. However, the former are absent in the territory of the European North of Russia, and the latter are set up by large businesses, but their contribution cannot currently be objectively assessed due to the lack of appropriate methodology. It has been revealed that both in the north of the EU and in the European North of Russia, plans for adaptation to climate change are being developed. However, a distinctive feature of such documents in Russian regions is the absence of a social component, such as the health and education sectors.

climate regulation, the European North of Russia, Finland, Sweden, adaptation to climate change, decarbonisation