Residents of big cities leave a smaller footprint on the environment compared to residents of small towns.
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said in his blog on the website of the Russian Metropolitan Municipality: “Moscow’s carbon dioxide emissions have decreased by a quarter since 1990, although its population has increased by a third. Today, harmful substances released into the environment are twice as high. As low as 10 years ago.
“The development of megacities is not an obstacle, but the key to solving many environmental problems,” said the mayor of Moscow.
According to Sergey Sobyanin, residents of large cities leave a smaller environmental footprint compared to residents of small towns. This is because the population density and energy efficiency in large cities are higher than in small towns or villages.
Moscow has now witnessed the realization of major projects that will improve the city’s environmental condition. One of them is the large-scale reconstruction of the Moscow Oil Refinery. In this way, the refinery reduced the discharge of polluted waste into the Moscow River by 99.9%, the discharge of harmful substances into the atmosphere by 2.2 times and the discharge of hydrogen sulfide by 9.6 times.
Moscow has become the first region in Russia to ban the sale of fuel whose efficiency is below the Euro-5 environmental standard.
source: mos.ru
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