Going green in the energy sector is associated with the expected restructuring of energy markets and a decrease in imports of carbon products. In addition, work is underway to remediate the land, eliminate landfills and implement a waste recycling system.
To date, the “green” agenda has become a global trend. The “Green Deal” that the European Union approved in 2019, — is an economic development strategy that aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Its implementation will impact not only the EU economy, but also the economy and the foreign trade of its trading partners. This is due to the expected restructuring of energy markets and reduced carbon imports.
Russia is a leader in the movement towards “green” energy. Work is underway to sanitize the soil, water and air. Within the framework of the national project “Ecology” landfills are being eliminated and a modern waste treatment and disposal system is being built, the accumulated damage to old industrial sites is being eliminated, the territories of 12 cities where the situation is particularly difficult are reconquered as a priority.
< p>About what the “green economy” is and what are its current problems, Head of the Center for Bioeconomy and Eco-Innovation at EF MSU, Head of Department of Environmental Economics at Faculty of Economics, Moscow State University named after MVMV Lomonosov, Doctor of Economics, Professor Sergey Bobylev.
The scientist drew attention to the fact that three billion people in the world do not have enough fresh water. “To me, the water crisis may seem even more dangerous than the climate crisis. When hundreds of millions of people will have nothing to drink, in my opinion, it is a tragic problem. Back to the “green” economy… By the way, this term is thirty years old… Almost the entire economy of the world has promised to become carbon neutral by the middle of the century. Absolutely New Canonical Reality — it is that humanity must reach a degree and a half. It is a narrow logical hallway. What to do with GDP? What to do with income? What to do with the job? What to do with new technologies? In fact, in the world of awareness, this is a major problem. How to measure “green” transition? There's a wonderful expression in economics: you can't manage what can't be measured. The classic problem: what to do with consumption? Are we ready to reduce it? If everyone on Earth lives like the average American, we will need five planets, — he thinks.
Bobylev also pointed out that if we compare the carbon footprint of production and consumption, we can get an interesting picture. “Greta Thunbergfrom Sweden, a country that emits few greenhouse gases. But it imports a lot of products with a very long carbon chain, and this figure is minus 60! Maybe Greta Thunberg will teach her people, her government to change their consumption model? Here is the string of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals — change in the production and consumption model. Changing consumption patterns is psychologically much more difficult than changing production patterns. The production is more or less clear. Excellent example — Europe is moving towards low carbon technologies. A month ago, the Russian government adopted a strategy for transitioning to low-carbon development until 2060. Big question: what will it be? Humanity is trying to figure it out, but from the perspective of mainstream economics, there is a huge question: how do you get into this one and a half degree narrow ecological corridor?” — asks the expert.
On Monday, seismologists recorded an earthquake in Kamchatka. This was reported by TASS with reference to the local branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
According to experts, the magnitude of the earthquake was 5.0 on the Richter scale. The source was at a depth of 89 kilometers, the epicenter was 40 kilometers from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
Residents of the region felt an earthquake of up to three magnitudes.
During this time, a series of tremors occurred off the Philippines from magnitude 3.0 to 5.7. The epicenter of the most powerful earthquake was located 109 kilometers southeast of the municipality of Jose Abad Santos.
Detachments of warships of the Pacific, Northern and Black Sea fleets, as well as Il-38 anti-submarine aircraft of the naval aviation, carried out exercises in the Mediterranean Sea, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.
It should be noted that the main tasks of the maneuvers were the search and monitoring of; a fake enemy submarine, the exchange of information on targeted maneuvers, as well as the development of the use of aviation weapons.
Varyag missile cruisers participated in the exercises; and “Marshal Ustinov”, frigates “Fleet Admiral Kasatonov” and “Admiral Grigorovich”, anti-submarine ships “Admiral Tributes” and “Vice-Admiral Kulakov”, as well as the crews of aviation aircraft naval force of the Navy.
Recall that in the period from February 15 to February 25, naval exercises are held in the Eastern Mediterranean under the leadership of the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov .
Earlier it was reported that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu visited Russian Navy exercises in Syria.
Press service of the Amur Tiger Center reported that the corpse of a young tiger was found near the village of Yuzhny in the Lazo region of the territory of Khabarovsk on February 18, reports Interfax. , — the message says.
It should be noted that the animal probably died from wounds received in a fight with a larger male. The exact cause of death will be established by specialists at the center based on the results of the autopsy.
Previously, the Amur Tiger Center reported that at Primorye, they had saved an Amur tiger cub that had fallen into a trap with its paw.
It was noted that the animal had been examined. No serious injuries were found in him, so rescuers decided to leave him in the wild.
Cloudy weather is expected in the Russian capital on Monday, February 21, according to the official website of the Hydrometeorological Center of the Russian Federation.
“Cloudy. Light precipitation (rain, sleet),” the report said.
The daytime air temperature in the city will be between two and four degrees Celsius. Atmospheric pressure – 737 millimeters of mercury.
Winds from the southwest and south at a speed of 6 to 11 meters per second.
Cloudy weather, sleet and precipitation in the form of rain and sleet.
The wind is southwesterly and southerly at a speed of six to 11 meters per second. The air temperature will be zero to two degrees Celsius. Atmospheric pressure – 734 millimeters of mercury.
Former leading employee of the Meteorological Center of Phobos Evgeny Tishkovets said that spring weather will continue in Moscow in the near future.
In recent years, the term “extreme consumer” has entered the everyday life of entrepreneurs. These clients — professional buyers who deliberately take the case to court and collect money from sellers under a wacky pretext.
Acting according to a well-established pattern
Elena Konovalova10 years of experience in e-commerce. One of the commercial directions of his — provision of climatic equipment. A few years ago, a customer bought a water-based climate complex in his store, and after a year and a half turned to service.
“The buyer said he would have used the complex only for 2 weeks. Then there was a swamp smell in the water and he did not turn it on again, — said Helen. — There was no evidence that the client did not use the complex. He obviously acted according to a well-established pattern. All documents, requests for appeal were drawn up through his attorney.
The online store conducted its own mini-survey and discovered that it was not the first victim of “consumer extremism”; from a dissatisfied customer. Information “Consumer extremism is the behavior of consumers and/or their associations, with the aim of obtaining a certain profit and income, manipulating consumer rights legislation for selfish ends.”
“We analyzed the legal practice and found that our client's store is far from the first and, most likely, not the last on the list for filing claims, — says Elena Konovalova — Every year , he is constantly going to court under the Consumer Protection Act. At the time of contacting us, he had already “successfully” traveled and taken out loans from different banks. As a result of the litigation, our store was forced not only to leave the product with the customer, but also to pay its cost, compensation and to reimburse the services of a lawyer.
The entrepreneur admits that; it is extremely difficult to deal with such buyers.Today, each store has its own customer “blacklists”, but there is no single register today.
< h2>In the risk zone — marketplaces
Dmitry Bylov — market seller. A few days before the New Year, it was also subject to “consumer extremism”: buyers started ordering Christmas trees in bulk, and a few days later, with the start of 2022, they have rendered.
“Customers used the item and sent it back 15 days later,” says Dimitri. thing with the outfits. It was motivated by the fact that the product did not match the color. And if there is a label, then according to the law and according to the rules of the market, I cannot refuse to sometimes you can even see from a thing that it is worn, but at the same time the buyer keeps the tags.And sometimes they replace good expensive suits with similar things, but cheaper quality.
Davidyuk Maryana is also the owner of an Internet project. Mariana sells women's clothes. One day a buyer came to her. approached claiming he had received shoddy merchandise from the store.
“It turned out that the man did not buy me any clothes, — says Mariana Davidyuk. — He only clarified some information about the desired set of clothes in the correspondence, but in the end he didn't buy anything. In fact, he bought things from another store similar to mine. But the complaint accordingly was sent to me. He asked for the refund the product I had to get a lawyer Eventually the buyer apologized to me but if he really made a mistake or if he 39; intentionally sent such a claim, I don't know.
“If there's no mutual understanding, we just don't get to work”
Clothing, footwear and jewelry retailers aren't the only ones suffer from consumer extremism. Sometimes these “specially aware of their rights” clients receive services for free — car repair, dry cleaning, haircut or, as in the case of Taisiya Chebotareva, — new website.
“Even after correcting the performance of a certain service, the customer can still say that he did not think so and that everything must be redone from scratch. Or he changed his mind, changed his strategy, changed his preferences, — says the CEO of an IT services company Taisiya Chebotareva. — To protect ourselves from such cases, we enter into an agreement in which we set out the most detailed terms of reference, deadlines and obligations possible. We agree on everything, even the smallest changes in writing. We record absolutely all telephone conversations with customers. It also works in court cases. However, it is always better not to mention them so as not to damage the reputation of the company.
Taisiya Chebotareva says consumer extremism most often occurs when the seller wants to meet the customer's needs — to grant a wish different from the technical task.
“We want, for example, to humanely do a little more than what is written in the technical task, — the businesswoman shares. — But we get some nasty feedback and even a complaint. The actions, it seems, are meant to increase customer loyalty, but sometimes they can have the opposite effect.
Notice expert
Constantin Erokhin, lawyer:
Unfortunately, in Russia, the term “consumer extremism” is informal in nature, since it is not reflected in the current legislation of the Russian Federation. At the same time, by its very nature, consumer extremism — This is an abuse of due process. As a lawyer, I face similar issues when maintaining restaurant operations. Consumers want to enrich themselves illegally or gain some sort of preference over a well-known restaurant that wants to maintain its positive image. But it is possible to resist such an unscrupulous approach by consumers.
First, if it really isn't a disservice, it's important to first consider such a person as a potential nuisance and resist them in any way possible. In this vein, you need to educate your employees and all staff. It's not that the company will be forced to give it anything — cash, discount cards, free dinner, etc. Such cases cause service sellers to take a more critical look at their customers, reduce the level of trust.
Secondly, in such cases, it is important to immediately declare and inform the manipulator that he will not receive any money or compensation from the company. The only possibility — carry out all the procedures prescribed by law (administrative, claimant, judicial), including appeals against the acts issued and enforcement procedures. It is important to impress on the consumer that the company will go all the way, protecting their interests in every possible way.
Third, it is important to carry out regular audits of the quality of the company and the compliance of all business documents and processes with the requirements of current legislation (information on services, consumer properties of goods , etc.), compliance with warranty and other conditions. Perform purchases “control”.
Consumer corner in the store. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org
Fourth, it is necessary to record all actions of employees when communicating with customers, including problematic ones.
Fifth, it It is high time that business representatives join forces on these issues. Often an extremist consumer can be identified by obtaining background information from co-workers.
AIF at dacha No. 4. Arrangement of cucumber beds 02/15/2022
Useful activity — caring for fast-growing greens at home. In addition, it develops fine motor skills of the child well.
Main & mdash; immediately understand what the child likes the most, what heroes of animated films he is not indifferent to. For example, it is enough to buy a figurine of Masha, a house, and in front of it lay out a real garden of onions and green salads, so that the impudent character will turn into a hardworking gardener. Future farmers will love a small paddock with sown lawn grass and horse, pony and cow figurines. But you can't do without birds, let's say broilers with their yellow chickens on the farm.
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For housekeepers who miss their dacha on winter evenings, you can simulate a semblance of 6 acres of land with a house, trees, flower beds, flowerbeds and a swimming pool. All miniature structures are easy to rearrange and plan to your liking.
No time for tedious projects? It is enough to take two metal or plastic cans and paint them in bright colors, buy Chinese “eyes” in the store, glue them to the containers. A funny smile can be made from any red yarn. Another — accumulate eggshells. It is enough to carefully crack the eggs without damaging the whole shell.
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Even easier — don't think of seed containers at all, greens don't need large volumes of substrate for germination and growth. You can take the first toys that come to hand. Let's say a big dump truck with a — an impromptu bed for homemade vitamins.
Many children have fallen in love with ready-made toys — Herbalists. They can look like fairy tale characters or animals. Their care consists of regular moisturizing.
Next week the spring weather will continue in the Russian capital – in the afternoon the thermometers will reach plus 5, a leading employee of the Meteorological Center of Russia told RIA Novosti Fobos. Evgeny Tishkovets.
According to the forecaster, February 2022 is among the ten warmest in the last 74 years – the average monthly air temperature is almost 5 degrees above the long-term norm.
“Until the end of the civil winter, the The atmosphere will most likely remain in a permanent state of meteorological spring,” Tishkovets said.
The first half of the coming week, according to the forecaster, will be under the influence of cyclone Antonia, which brings adverse weather conditions. The weather will be cloudy with sleet and rain. At night in the capital, thermometers will show zero – plus 2, during the day the air will warm up to plus 2-4 degrees, on Tuesday afternoon – up to plus 5.
This time in Central Russia corresponds to the beginning of April, Tishkovets said.
Thursday and Friday, the inhabitants of the capital wait for the beautiful days – an anticyclone will come to the area. At night it will freeze until minus 1-6, & nbsp; in the afternoon, thermometers will show zero – plus 5.
However, by the weekend the weather will deteriorate again, the forecaster said.
Tishkovets added that in recent days, snowdrifts in the capital region have decreased by 46 to 23 centimeters, and they continue to melt. As a result, according to the expert, the height of the snow cover will fall to 19-20 centimeters, which corresponds to the typical values for March 27 – dates when climatic spring comes to Moscow.
Earlier, the meteorologist told how much it costs to name a cyclone and an anticyclone and why naming an anticyclone will cost more.
Before that, the Hydrometeorological Center Russians should wait for the beginning of spring.
The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed to initiate criminal proceedings on the facts of attacks by the forces of Ukrainian security forces in the Luhansk People's Republic, reports the press service of the department.
According to the source, on the morning of February 20, an attempted attack by the Ukrainian security forces caused civilian casualties, in particular following shelling in the direction of the village of Cominternovo, a un civilian received a shock shell, two other people died.
Depending on these facts, criminal proceedings will be initiated and an investigation will be carried out in all circumstances with collection of evidence, added to the commission of ;RF investigation.
On Sunday morning, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to cause civilian casualties, but also to destroy five buildings.
From the beginning of the attack climbing – February 17 & ndash; The People's Militia of the DPR recorded five acts of sabotage. The authorities of the DPR and the LPR have announced a general mobilization. Civilians evacuated to Russia.
The Presidents of Belarus and Russia have decided to continue testing the Union State Response Forces against the backdrop of increased military activity near borders and the situation in the Donbass. This was reported by the Republic Department of Defense.
The department clarified that the parties will carefully address defense issues that have not been covered in such detail. in the previous step.
« adequate response and de-escalation of the malefactors' military preparations near our common borders”, – summary to the ministry.
According to Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin, the joint military exercises have shown that Minsk and Moscow, with their efficiency and consistency, outstripped the actions of their adversaries.
A day earlier, Russian leader Vladimir Putin had launched exercises of strategic deterrence forces with ballistic missile launches. followed the launches from the situational center with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko.
Recall that the day before, negotiations took place in the Kremlin between Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko, during which politicians discussed the prospects for the development of Russian-Belarusian relations, opposition to Western sanctions, as well as joint military exercises and other issues.
The s The situation on the contact line in the Donbass worsened on February 17. The authorities of the self-proclaimed people's republics of Donetsk and Lugansk announced a general mobilization. Civilians are evacuated to Russia. Meanwhile, the situation in eastern Ukraine remains critical.
