... transformation processes in the region. At the same time, this resilient approach of Russian policy includes and promotes ideas of inclusiveness, finding a balance of interests between global and regional powers, and the need to stabilise the region.
Russia’s Energy Policies in the East Med
One of the key elements of Russian foreign policy in the Eastern Mediterranean subregion—and more broadly in the Middle East—is the desire to ensure stable interaction with major players in the energy market. From this ...
... “green dialogue” is also important from the perspective of transforming the geopolitical situation for both sides.
New Geopolitics of the EU’s “Green Energy”
Natalia Piskulova:
The European Green Deal: Risks and Opportunities for the EU and Russia
Energy transition entails a number of major geopolitical challenges, requiring a transformation of the EU strategy for collaboration with regions and nations, certainly including Russia, which have played a particularly great role in ensuring the EU’s ...
... ranking measuring how much states progress in transferring to clean energy, while the share of wind and solar power in Russia’s UES balance is only 0.15%.
Calculations indicate
that—should the most ambitious plans be implemented—the RES share in Russia’s energy generation will have reached 2–2.5% by 2035. At the same time, Russian companies have been rather active in going “green”, launching “clean”
detachment
of “dirty” assets into separate subsidiaries in order to attract investment and ...
... Willershausen, Member of the Management Board, CREON Group; Anastasiia Lavrenteva, Managing Director at Gazprombank; Alexey Spirin, Director of the Environmental and Climate Risk Management Department of En+ Group; and Ernesto Ferlenghi, Chairman of the Energy Committee, Chair of the Green Initiative Steering Committee of the Association of European Businesses; spoke about the vision of the business community on the prospects and challenges of interaction between Russia and the EU in the ecology sphere, green investments, and sustainable development.
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... Europe’s hydrogen market
at $153bn as of 2050, while the Ministry of Energy suggests it will amount to $32–164bn. The Hydrogen Strategy approved by the European Commission in 2020 as part of the European Green Deal encourages the development of hydrogen energy. In Russia, it may be driven by the Strategy for Hydrogen Energy Development, which is currently being drafted. This strategy provides for collaboration with other states, including the EU.
Plans
for 2021 include presenting incentive measures for hydrogen ...
... topic “Prospects for cooperation between Russia and the EU in the ecology sphere”.
Cooperation between Russia and the European Union in ecology and sustainable development field is one of the promising areas of bilateral relations. For Russia and Russian companies, this opens up prospects in the EU energy market and access to technologies for waste processing and production of renewable energy sources. For the European Union and companies from the EU countries, this is an opportunity to import products that meet its environmental standards.
However,...
... mentioned in the
German and European hydrogen strategies
. These actions triggered movement and, by the autumn of 2020, a discussion had been launched on a series of bilateral entrepreneurial projects. Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and Russia’s Ministries of Energy and of Industry and Trade launched informal contacts in the area. Despite operational difficulties in using Н2 and hydrogen technologies, the Russian-German initiative has good prospects for promoting joint projects on ...
On July 10, 2020, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) in cooperation with Gateway House held an online round-table discussion “Situation on the Global Energy Market and Prospects for Russia — India Cooperation”.
On July 10, 2020, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) in cooperation with Gateway House held an online round-table discussion “Situation on the Global Energy Market and Prospects for Russia — India Cooperation”....
... Russia.
This market analysis provides compelling findings. It seems that the true competitors are Russia versus France on the one hand and Germany versus China on the other for two sets of energy resources respectively. In the case of nuclear and hydro energy, Russia has the upper hand on France. Moscow is already well implanted in Angola and South Africa. However, France will probably be a preferred choice for members of the Francophonie, which already have strong political and economic ties with Paris. Regarding ...
... structurally complementary. And it is not that we have nothing better to do than build pipelines that – despite resistance from some EU countries – bring gas to Europe.
Russia makes a lot of money out of it.
The main thing is that we strengthen Europe’s energy security. Another example: despite EU’s unilateral measures against Russia, we have long-established cross-border cooperation, especially in the North-West of Russia – with Finland, Sweden, Poland and the Baltic countries. This is even financially supported by the EU. It works very well. Such transnational cooperation ...
