Figures contained in an official document submitted by the Russian environmental monitoring agency to the United Nations on Monday, show that Russia's greenhouse gas emissions rose by nearly 11 percent between 1999 and 2004.This is the first time in half a decade that Russia has submitted greenhouse gas emission data essential for measuring its impact on climate.
Russian emissions rose to 2.074 billion tonnes in 2004 from 1.873 billion tonnes in 1999, data from Roshydromet said. This is still 30 percent below 1990 levels but a 1.5 percent increase from 2003.
Alexei Kokorin, a climate change specialist at WWF in Russia said that Russia's emissions figures showed economic development did not necessarily mean more pollution.
