Mitigating black carbon emissions from gas flaring and Arctic maritime shipping: Russia’s anti-Western ambitions in the Arctic
Journal: Trepo - Institutional Repository of Tampere University
Year: 2025

The Arctic region and Russia, the major emitter of greenhouse gases, are facing effects of climate change faster than the rest of the world. Evidently, climate change and adoption to it will shape Russia’s future, and vice versa, regardless of who or what kind of a government is in power. This includes addressing the problem of black carbon and other short-lived climate pollutants from hydrocarbon industry and maritime shipping in the Northern Sea Route accelerating climate warming, with harmful