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 the June 3 meeting, Putin says favorable conditions for environmental investment never simply arrive and calls for consistent state action and compliance with directives and plans. Kozlov says a pollution-penalties bill has passed its first Duma reading but still needs finalization. He contrasts an unnamed Krasnoyarsk company's 1.2-billion-ruble modernization requirement with a prospective five-billion-ruble fine and says the 29 additional Clean Air cities also require work on utilities, energy, private housing and roads. Vremya's retelling identifies the proposed penalties as revenue-linked and stresses preserving major employers while improving residents' environment. The exchange announces no enacted bill, actual fine or newly dated parliamentary vote.