Forest.ru
All about russian forest
This site supported by Forest Club Logo
All about Russian forests | Russian NGOs Forest Club | Useful links | Site map | Site search
Russian version

Basic info about Russian forest and forestry

News

Russian forest legislation

If is everything OK with forests in Russia?

Russian old-growth forests - the world natural heritage

Sustainable forestry in Russia

Forest Bulletin

Other Forest Club periodicals

Forest Club Publications

Forest Club Hot spots

 

RSS-News
RSS-News

POBEDITELI — Soldiers of the Great War

The campaign to restore Russian independent environmental agency

30 November, 2000 Russian officials rejected a referendum bid for a nationwide poll on the formation of an independent environment protection agency. "Out of 2,490,000 signatures collected in support of the referendum only 1,873,000 were recognised as authentic, falling short of the required minimum of two million for a referendum to be called," a spokesman for the commission said by telephone.


27 October, 2000 Two And Half Million Russians Back Environmental Protection Referendum . The initiators of an All-Russia environmental protection referendum have submitted to the election commissions of Russia's 60 composite regions the signatures of nearly 2.5 million supporters of this step.


21 September, 2000 World Bank Conditions Russian Forest Projects on Restructuring of Environment Agency, But Will it Cave in to Weak Reforms?. CEE Bankwatch Network and Pacific Environment and Resources Center Press Release.


9 September, 2000 Russian environmental organizations and the Pacific Environment and Resource Center (PERC) asked us to circulate this Emergency Action.. Please send a quick fax to World Bank president James Wolfensohn and US Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers to pressure the Russian government to reinstate environmental agencies that were abolished in May. A model letter is given below.


27 August, 2000. Prime Minister Mikhail Kas'yanov Opposed to Referendum. The Prime Minister believes that at the current time, it is unnecessary to conduct an All-Russian Environmental Referendum on the issue of nuclear waste storage.


24 August, 2000. The Moscow based Advocacy group Ecojuris is challenging the abolition of the Russian State Ecology Committee.
On August 22 nd the organization filed suit in the Supreme Court against the Russian government for its decision to eliminate the State Ecology Committee and the Federal Forest Service by merging its functions with the Natural Resources Ministry. The suit asks the Supreme Court to declare the presidential decree abolishing the Committee unconstitutional and invalid.


29 June, 2000. National Environmenmental Referendum in Russia is hopefully on its way. Moscow Municipal Election Commission started the registration-process of the initiative group for the national nature protection referendum.


13 June, 2000. All-Russian Extraordinary Environmental Conference organized by Russian NGO community has taken place in Moscow.


12 June, 2000. Over 170 environmental activists met in Moscow and formed the initiative group for organizing the all-Russian referendum on the restoring an independent environmental protection agency. According to the legislature, the initiative group should be formally registered and will have two months after that to gather 2 millions signatures by Russian citizens to organize the all-Russian referendum.
More information (in Russian): http://www.greenpeace.ru/econews/june/reff1.htm


08 June, 2000. The Council of Federation (upper house of the Russian Parliament) asked Russian President to restore Environmental Protection Committee and Forest Service.
More information (in Russian): http://news.battery.ru/theme/ecology/?id=22044


5 June, 2000. In the International Environmental Day Biodiversity Conservation Center, Greenpeace Russia, Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) and other Russian environmental NGOs made joint protest action in front of the former Environmental Protection committee building.
More information (in Russian): http://www.greenpeace.ru/econews/june/action.htm


29-31 May, 2000. Environmental ministers of the Nordic countries met in Malmo, Sweden expressed their concern on abolishing Environmental Protection Committee in Russia.
More information (in Russian): http://www.greenpeace.ru/econews/june/animals.htm


25 May, 2000. The Environmental Committee of State Duma (lower house of the Russian Parliament) turned to Russian President to restore the Environmental Protection Committee.
More information (in Russian): http://www.greenpeace.ru/econews/may/komit.htm


21-25 May, 2000. Russian environmental NGOs wrote the open letter to Russian President. The text could be found in http://www.ecoline.ru/actions/goscomeco/relis.htm. (In Russian, sorry.)


17 May, 2000. New Russian President Vladimir Putin abolished Russian Environmental Protection Committee and Russian Forest Service by the Decree no. 867.

Back to the first page on Abolishing of Russian Environmental Agencies

Back to the If Everything OK With Forests In Russia page


Share |
Back to top of this page Back to Homepage

Mail us!

id=