{"id":1903,"date":"2014-11-21T07:39:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T12:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2014-11-21T07:39:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T12:39:56","slug":"the-problems-of-environmental-activism-in-russia-opendemocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1903","title":{"rendered":"The problems of environmental activism in Russia | openDemocracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/od-russia\/angelina-davydova\/problems-of-environmental-activism-in-russia\">The problems of environmental activism in Russia | openDemocracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\">This autumn, in cities worldwide there were climate-themed marches to tie in with the Ban Ki-Moon UN summit, the most of important of which was a 400-thousand-strong demonstration in New York; and Russia too passed a series of measures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\">On 23 September, environmental activists from Moscow and Moscow Region\u00a0pressure groups, together with Russian campaigners from the international 350.org movement, held a meeting in Moscow to publi\u0441ise their demands made to the official Russian delegation at the summit. These included:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">&#8211;\u00a0Cancelling tax perks for mining companies, and subsidies for Arctic offshore development<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">&#8211;\u00a0Stimulating the development of renewable energy<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">&#8211;\u00a0Halting the felling of protected forests for infrastructure construction; prohibiting the mining of minerals in fertile soil, the cancellation of\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0061bf; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/od-russia\/konstantin-rubakhin\/where-there%E2%80%99s-muck-there%E2%80%99s-brass\">development plans for nickel deposits<\/a>\u00a0in the Voronezh region.<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problems of environmental activism in Russia | openDemocracy. This autumn, in cities worldwide there were climate-themed marches to tie in with the Ban Ki-Moon UN summit, the most of important of which was a 400-thousand-strong demonstration in New York; and Russia too passed a series of measures. On 23 September, environmental activists from Moscow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,1337,542,694,822],"class_list":["post-1903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-environmental-activism","tag-moscow","tag-russia","tag-un"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1904,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}