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9.1.8 Telecoms sector news
The impending smartphone scarcity in Russia is being blamed on transportation issues and a lack of components, according to Vedomosti onOctober 13. Several businesses have stated that popular phone models are out of stock. Despite the fact that this isn’t the company’s most recent model, Apple may be able to offer some iPhone 11 devices by the end of November. Samsung and Xiaomi are also experiencing severe shortages, and a source at VimpleCom, one of Russia’s biggest mobile phone carriers, says it’s uncertain when the situation will be resolved. The trend is global – the epidemic has impacted mobile phone manufacturing, and the energy issue has impacted how fast components for them, as well as the phones themselves, are transported across the globe.
9.1.10 Utilities & Renewables sector news
Russia set a new date for carbon neutrality. I
n its revised, more
ambitious strategy, Russia will be carbon neutral by 2060. This will
require a 79% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
During his speech at the Russian Energy Week, President Vladimir Putin
noted that Russia would reach carbon neutrality by 2060. He highlighted
the need to create unified rules of climate regulation that were clear and
fair for all countries, and that these rules needed to be based on the
understanding of the contribution of each country to environmental
improvements, along with mutually recognised models or, and
accounting for, emissions and absorption. Along with that, Putin ordered
that the state programme on energy saving and energy efficiency
improvement be updated and prolonged to 2035. These carbon neutrality
announcements are a major step forward for the Russian climate agenda;
Russia is now joining the 137 countries that have already committed to
carbon neutrality (according to the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit, as
of June 2021).
On 1 November, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin announced the signing of the Low Carbon Strategy through 2050.
The strategy includes two scenarios: inertial and target (intensive). The target scenario is taken as the base. The Ministry for Economic Development plans to develop an action plan to implement the strategy within six months.
Implementing the target scenario will require investments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions of about 1% of GDP in 2022–30, and up to 1.5–2.0% of GDP in 2031–50. The decarbonisation plan includes measures to introduce, replicate and expand low- and carbon-free technologies, encourage the use of secondary energy resources, change the tax, customs and budgetary policies, and develop green finance. There are also measures to preserve and increase the absorptive capacity of forests and other ecosystems, and support technologies for capturing, using and utilsing greenhouse gases.
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