BAKU, November 13. /TASS/. Russia has more than halved greenhouse gas emissions since 1990, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said at the UN Climate Change Conference in Baku, adding that Moscow also plans to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.

Russia together with the international community is making active efforts for tackling the global climate change, he noted. Those efforts are aimed at ensuring the prosperity of future generations, the official added.

"We managed to more than halve greenhouse gas emissions since 1990. By 2060, we plan to achieve carbon neutrality. We focus on improvement of energy efficiency, development of electric transport, introduction of advanced solutions in the agriculture and forest sectors," he said.

Clean, low-emission generation currently accounts for 85% of Russia’s energy balance, this first of all being gas, nuclear energy, the use of renewable sources, Mishustin noted.

"We boost own technologies and production capacities for de-carbonization of sectors. We also use natural possibilities. One fifth of global forest resources is situated [in Russia]. The absorption volume exceeds 1 bln tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year," he stressed.

Carbon neutrality suggests reduction to zero of greenhouse gas emissions in production of goods and services or environmental initiatives offsetting them.