Asian Property Losses

Posted on June 2, 2011 in News

The greatest number of casualties from natural disasters seen in the Asian region, with the largest property losses are as a rule, the U.S., China and Europe. It should be noted that today the natural disasters occurring in the world four times more than 30 years ago, and the economic damage caused by their destruction has increased more than sevenfold. Russia will play an important role in resolving problems of climate warming Russia as the largest country in the world, and, respectively, and the largest emitters of greenhouse gases, along with countries such as usa, China, India, Russia and Brazil will make every effort to play a crucial role in global warming and reduce greenhouse gas emissions on the planet. On this Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, addressing the public in his video blog, and later – from the podium of the climate un conference in Copenhagen. President Medvedev has called the largest world economies to undertake the necessary commitments to greenhouse gas emissions.

He recalled that Russia has already stated the possibility of reduce their emissions by 25% by 2020 instead of the previously planned 15%. Thus, Russia from 1990 to 2020 will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 billion tons, said the president. Medvedev stressed that the scale reduce emissions, our country is already a world leader. Russia accounted for half of the world volume of emission reductions over the past 20 years. He said that the deal with energy efficiency and reducing emissions Russia will be regardless of whether the agreement, since 'it is beneficial to ourselves.