MOSCOW, December 27. /TASS/. Russia's energy sector is the cleanest in the world, and imposing carbon quotas on Russia is an attempt to restrict development, the president of the Kurchatov Institute research center, Mikhail Kovalchuk, said in an interview on the Rossiya-24 TV channel.
"This [diktat of carbon emission quotas] is swindling. We ought to understand and analyze everything that is being said. We should have our own understanding, and not live abide by someone else's imposed scientific agenda, which is almost always aimed at our weakening. We should form our own agenda and understand what is going on around us so as not to overlook something new," he said.
Russia's energy sector, Kovalchuk said, is the "greenest" because "everybody uses coal or something else, while Russia burns gas."
"Second, we have a huge number of hydroelectric power plants, which emit nothing. Third, nuclear power, which emits nothing, either," he added. Also, Kovalchuk recalled that Russia had the largest forest area, which absorbs a huge amount of carbon dioxide.