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The biggest climate challenges for Russian cities are air, wastewater and soil pollution in industrial megacities. The state has already developed ’Clean Air’ and ’Clean Water’ programmes and has allocated significant funds to change the situation in the regions for the better.
The third issue is climate change. For Russia, it is probably more acute than for the rest of the world: temperatures in the Arctic zone are rising by 5–7 °C annually while the global average warming is about 1.5 °C.
This changes the ecological situation in the Far North, including in terms of biodiversity: it has become warm enough in Yamal for crows to nest there. This has never happened before.
In addition, warming threatens to destroy all the infrastructure built on permafrost. Russia alone cannot cope with this problem.
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