Climate change: Russia and the United States have "common interests", according to Putin

Moscow and Washington share

on climate change, Russian President Vladimir Putin told US special climate envoy John Kerry, visiting Moscow.

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the Russian president underlined in a statement released by the Kremlin on Wednesday.

According to the Kremlin, Vladimir Poutine

to achieving the objectives of the Paris climate agreement.

He also supports

on this issue, according to this source.

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The Russian president and the American envoy

confirmed the US State Department. John Kerry notably highlighted the role that Russia must play in the fight against global warming in the Arctic Council, as well as in the campaign to end greenhouse gas emissions from coal, explains the State Department press release. Visiting this week in the capital, John Kerry had already called for developing cooperation with Moscow on the climate during a meeting Monday with the head of Russian diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov.

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Russia, one of the world's largest producers of oil and gas, has made commitments in recent years suggesting that it takes climate change seriously, amid increasing forest fires every summer in Siberia and melting permafrost, which endangers several cities in the Arctic. During his annual speech in April, President Putin declared that Russia must adapt to climate change and ordered the creation of an industry to recycle carbon emissions. Climate change is one of the few areas in which the United States and the European Union have declared their readiness to engage in cooperation with Russia, in a context of permanent tensions.