The draft of this very strategy was made publicly available back in December 2023. In the fine print on page 18, you can easily find clause 1.2.5, and in it subclause 1 – “Introduction of a carbon pricing system.” Deadline: I quarter of 2028. That is, industrial enterprises of the Russian Federation will have to pay a tax on carbon emissions – an invariable companion of growing production in our country and its developing neighbors.
The Ministry of Economic Development is already raising this issue for discussion with business and other relevant authorities. At the same time, it is clear that Russian industrialists, according to established tradition, will shift the payment of the “carbon tax” to the consumers of their products. 
They simply will have nowhere to go. Especially for those who are now working for government orders or are otherwise in the grip of state interests, and this is the vast majority of more or less operating factories and enterprises. They will no longer be able to compensate for the carbon tax, as well as fines for environmental pollution, by increasing the cost of supplies abroad. Prices in government contracts are, in fact, determined by the authorities, and here, too, there’s no getting around it.
So it turns out that ordinary Russians will be the first to experience the rapidly improving climate, some of whom will follow the poverty line. And there, along with the rest, they will enjoy double-digit inflation, rising prices for everything domestic, including travel by transport and fees for housing and communal services.
The funny thing about this story is that the main lobbyist for the “carbon tax” in Russia was Chubais. Yes, that same great man whose proposals have the inertia of fantastic power. Of course, the consequences of Russia’s “low-carbon development” will be less deadly for the country’s economy than privatization according to Chubais, but their tectonic destructive scale for both the industrial and socio-political spheres is already visible.
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