Putin and Kozlov meet Climate and pollution plans

Jun 3, 2025

Olga Knyazeva reports Putin's Kremlin meeting with Alexander Kozlov. The minister describes warming, forest-species and water-regime changes, logging implications and increased wildfire-response funding in Yakutia, Krasnoyarsk and Transbaikalia. The report describes revenue-based emissions penalties and a bill passed in first reading; Kozlov compares investment with a larger possible fine. Putin demands consistent state action and discipline while the report retains industrial-survival concerns. Kozlov cites Norilsk and Cherepovets programmes. He reports 126 wastewater plants built and nineteen delayed, naming regions and individual completion road maps. The ending mentions waste plants/equipment in territories Russia claims. Official statistics and projected effects are attributed; first reading is not final enactment.

At his June 3, 2025 meeting with Putin, Kozlov reports changing climate and forest species, effects on forest productivity and timber processing, and first-time 2025 reporting on forestry adaptation plans. Asked whether the changes are only forecasts, he says they are already visible, citing fires farther north in Yakutia and satellite monitoring. He also reports additional firefighting support for Krasnoyarsk and Transbaikalia without dating the earlier allocations. Vremya's same-day retelling emphasizes heat and forest changes and describes southern pine and oak as at risk of disappearance; that stronger wording remains the reporter's framing. The occurrence is this public forestry/climate update, not a newly dated wildfire, funding decree or independently verified national climate finding.