Environmental Financing in the Russian Federation [electronic resource] /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
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Paris : OECD Publishing,
1998.
In Russia, there has been a severe lack of financing for environmental projects in recent years. Traditional sources of financing, such as government budgets, lack resources in this time of crisis, while new sources have yet to develop their potential. How can Russia finance the projects and programmes to tackle its most serious environmental problems? This volume brings together papers from an OECD workshop that assessed the challenges and opportunities of environmental financing in Russia today. Its case studies focus on the regional and local levels of government, which have taken over the main work of implementing environmental policy in Russia today. The book also looks at the water sector, which has traditionally required large public investments. The papers examine how current financial mechanisms can be used more effectively and consider opportunities for new sources of financing in Russia's current transition to a market economy. Furthermore, they point to key areas for reforming Russia's environmental policy framework.
I. Workshop Conclusions -- II. Environmental Financing at the National and International Level -- -Environmental Financing in the russianFederation by Alexander Golub -- III. Environmental Financing at the Oblast Level -- Environmental Financing at the Oblast Level by Alexander Podust -- Environmental Investment Policy in Nizhniy Novgorod Oblast by Alexander Ivanov -- IV. The Water Sector -- Financing Water Supply and Wastewater Treatment Systems: A Case Study of Nizhniy Novgorod City by Yury A. Garanin -- Alternative Sources and Mechanisms of Financing Municipal Water Supply and Wastewater Treatment Projects in the Russian Federation by Alexander Martusevich -- Funding for Municipal Environmental Services in the Russian Federation: Lessons from the Water Sector in Belarus and Other Newly Independent States by Sergei Stepanischev, Karsten Vest-Hansen and Michael Jacobsen -- Low-Cost Approaches to Reducing Waste Water Problems: Case Study of the Moscow Drinking Water Project by Vladimir Vlaskin -- V. Improving Funding Mechanisms -- Regional Environmental Funds: Problems and Opportunities in Light of Central and Eastern European Experience by Michael Jacobsen -- Alternative Sources of Financing, Collateral and Financial Leveraging for Environmental Policy in the Russian Federation by Ted Devlin -- Annex. Conclusions of the Moscow Seminar on Strengthening the Environmental Fund System in Russia
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In Russia, there has been a severe lack of financing for environmental projects in recent years. Traditional sources of financing, such as government budgets, lack resources in this time of crisis, while new sources have yet to develop their potential. How can Russia finance the projects and programmes to tackle its most serious environmental problems? This volume brings together papers from an OECD workshop that assessed the challenges and opportunities of environmental financing in Russia today. Its case studies focus on the regional and local levels of government, which have taken over the main work of implementing environmental policy in Russia today. The book also looks at the water sector, which has traditionally required large public investments. The papers examine how current financial mechanisms can be used more effectively and consider opportunities for new sources of financing in Russia's current transition to a market economy. Furthermore, they point to key areas for reforming Russia's environmental policy framework.
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