New Delhi: Russian President Vladimir Putin will deliver a recorded message to the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, the Kremlin said on Monday, according to a Reuters report.
No arrangements have been made for Putin to address the summit live, the Kremlin said.
Russia is the fourth highest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world.
On October 20, Russia announced that Putin won't be attending the summit in person. China's President Xi Jinping is also not attending the summit.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Monday it will not be feasible for Putin to speak at COP26 by video conference.
Putin To Deliver Recorded Address On Forestry, Land Use Management
Peskov told reporters that a conference on forestry and land use management will be held in Glasgow as part of the climate change summit, and the Russian President has already recorded an address to the participants of that conference of the COP26.
The Kremlin official earlier said Putin had addressed climate-related issues at the G-20 summit held over the weekend, through a live video link.
Psdkov said Russia announced "weeks earlier" that it has set guidelines for its transition to carbon neutrality, and that they plan to achieve this goal by 2060, news agency TASS reported.
He also claimed that Russia is making "huge efforts" to cut load on climate, but added that this needs "adequate measures on behalf of all the states".
"...in many respects, Russia is ahead of many countries, including the countries of Western Europe, in terms of transition to less carbon-intensive technologies of generation and production," Peskov said, adding that the world "cannot ignore this".
On October 28, a day after the Kremlin said he would not attend COP26, Putin urged international cooperation, and not rivalry, to tackle the climate crisis.
"Any geopolitical, scientific, technical and ideological rivalry in such conditions sometimes seems to lose its meaning if the winners have nothing to breathe or nothing to quench their thirst with," Putin told an international gathering of Russia experts, according to Reuters.
He said there was a lack of international cooperation to save the environment and tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.
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