Russia: The Long Road to Ratification. - Internal Institution and Pressure Groups

According to the formal procedure, the Minister of Economic Development and Trade must report on the impacts of the implementation to the Deputy Prime Minister, who has to raise the question in a meeting of the government. [...] On the same day, the Russian newspaper Pravda reported a statement of the then-Deputy minister of Economic Development and Trade of Russia, Mohammed Tsikanov, affirming that “’Russia is losing economic reasons to ratify the Kyoto Protocol” because of the impact of the US position at the WSSD talks on Russia’s “ability to negotiate the quota of emissions”3. [...] The federal agencies that play the largest role in the commission and in implementing climate change policies are Hydromet, which leads the Commission, and the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Energy. [...] In the first group are federal ministries that have passed to the direct jurisdiction of the president as head of the executive branch of government: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of the Interior, and the Ministry for Emergency Situations. [...] Another nine federal ministries are under the prime minister’s jurisdiction: the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Health and Social Development, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, the Ministry of Culture and Information, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Industry and Energy, and the Ministry of Tr.