TY - JOUR

T1 - Contribution assessment of a technological factor to reducing CO2emissions in Russia

AU - Nemov, Vasily

AU - Filimonova, Irina

AU - Mishenin, Mikhail

AU - Zemnukhova, Ekaterina

N1 - Funding Information: The research was carried out with financial support from the grant of the President of the Russian Federation for support of young scientists No. MK-1819.2020.6, No Nsh-2571.2020.6, and the RFBR grant No. 20-010-00699. Publisher Copyright: © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2020. Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2020/11/23

Y1 - 2020/11/23

N2 - Currently, the economy should develop along an innovative way of development with an increase in the efficiency of the use of natural resources and a decrease in negative impacts on the environment to ensure stable economic growth and improve the quality of life of the population. The purpose of the study is to assess the environmental and energy effects that affect the environment and energy intensity in the country. The dynamics of greenhouse gas emissions in Russia are contemporaneously influenced by many different factors, such as the industry structure of the economy, the structure of the fuel and energy balance, the level of technological equipment, and the situation in world markets. Our analysis showed that the dynamics of CO2 emissions in Russia are determined primarily by the growth rates of the population's well-being and by the growth of industrial production. At the same time, in the period 2000-2012, the effect of welfare growth was partially offset by a decrease in the energy intensity of the economy, but then the potential for reducing energy intensity due to changes in the structure of the economy was exhausted. The contribution of the technological factor is also insufficient. So for the period 2000-2017, the improvement of technologies in the field of heat and electric energy production from fossil energy sources made it possible to reduce CO2 emissions by only 33 million tons. Another significant constraint to the transition to a low-carbon trajectory of development is the low rate of implementation of energy-saving technologies in the production of energy-intensive industrial products, maintenance of residential and public buildings.

AB - Currently, the economy should develop along an innovative way of development with an increase in the efficiency of the use of natural resources and a decrease in negative impacts on the environment to ensure stable economic growth and improve the quality of life of the population. The purpose of the study is to assess the environmental and energy effects that affect the environment and energy intensity in the country. The dynamics of greenhouse gas emissions in Russia are contemporaneously influenced by many different factors, such as the industry structure of the economy, the structure of the fuel and energy balance, the level of technological equipment, and the situation in world markets. Our analysis showed that the dynamics of CO2 emissions in Russia are determined primarily by the growth rates of the population's well-being and by the growth of industrial production. At the same time, in the period 2000-2012, the effect of welfare growth was partially offset by a decrease in the energy intensity of the economy, but then the potential for reducing energy intensity due to changes in the structure of the economy was exhausted. The contribution of the technological factor is also insufficient. So for the period 2000-2017, the improvement of technologies in the field of heat and electric energy production from fossil energy sources made it possible to reduce CO2 emissions by only 33 million tons. Another significant constraint to the transition to a low-carbon trajectory of development is the low rate of implementation of energy-saving technologies in the production of energy-intensive industrial products, maintenance of residential and public buildings.

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U2 - 10.1051/e3sconf/202020905013

DO - 10.1051/e3sconf/202020905013

M3 - Conference article

AN - SCOPUS:85097646087

VL - 209

JO - E3S Web of Conferences

JF - E3S Web of Conferences

SN - 2555-0403

M1 - 05013

T2 - 2020 Sustainable Development and Smart Management, ENERGY-21

Y2 - 7 September 2020 through 11 September 2020

ER -