Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov spoke at the international environmental forum Clean Country
Press Release, 16.03.2021
Photo: Nikolai Rybakov. Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov spoke at the round table “The Influence of Ecology on the Formation of the Political Agenda” which was organised as part of the programme of the international environmental forum Clean Country held in Skolkovo.
During a discussion with representatives of the public and non-parliamentary parties, Rybakov stated the need to take a number of emergency measures in the field of environmental policy in Russia:
“First, we need to ban incineration. We should not adopt outdated technologies, but we need to introduce effective methods of waste recycling.
Second, we should liquidate the federal and the regional garbage operators that are intermediaries. They simply should not have emerged, since this was an additional burden on consumers.
Third, we should guarantee the status of specially protected natural areas. These territories should grow, rather than shrink.
And the most important item is to stop persecution of environmental activists, stop use of force against them, initiation of cases against environmentalists. It is also necessary to abolish the law on foreign agents”.
Posted: March 18th, 2021 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment.