Concerning Ways of Getting Carbon Units of Russian Climate Projects (based on materials of carbon unit register)

In conditions of global climate changes and increasing attention to cutting carbon footprint (emissions) in economy Russian climate projects are becoming a strategic tool of implementing national interests of sustainable development. In spite of international pressure and attempts to exclude Russia from climatic processes the country forms its own market of carbon units, where every project can contribute to lowering or eliminating greenhouse gas emissions. The article studies key ways of getting carbon units of Russian climate projects. The authors identified theoretical and legal basis of functioning of the national system of greenhouse gas emission registration, keeping the register of carbon units, their regulation in national circumstances and general specificity of shaping Russian market of carbon units. The research was based on analyzing the open register of carbon units, which shows the acute climatic projects. In register analysis the authors systematized climate projects by four key approaches to cutting or preventing emissions and increase in greenhouse gas absorption. Special attention was paid to institutional role of carbon unit as economic asset and element of national climatic policy. Drawbacks of the current model were shown, including insufficient development of forest-climatic and bio-oriented projects. The research allows us to draw conclusions about the necessity of further development of national practice of getting carbon units.