Russia is already drafting proposal for post-Kyoto agreements on greenhouse gas emissions and hopes international deals for the period after 2012 may be agreed already this summer, according to Natural Resources Minister Yuri Trutnev. However, he said on Thursday that no talks had been held yet.
"Post-Kyoto agreements shall be fair and efficient," the minister said, adding Russia wants its climatic specifics to be taken into account in new agreements.
He specified Russian forests consume a lot of greenhouse gases.
Trutnev said after a government meeting that considered the Russian Climate Doctrine that post-Kyoto agreements should definitely involve all major economies.
"We believe it would be strange to reach any agreements, in which major countries with rapidly developing economies would not participate," he said and recalled the United States and China did not join the Kyoto protocol.
"We all have to care for the climate," he insisted.
The new agreements have to replace the Kyoto protocol that calls to decrease greenhouse gas discharge by 5 percent by 2012 against 1990 level. Thirty-eight industrialized countries, including Russia, joined the protocol.
European Union countries are calling for stricter provisions in post-Kyoto agreements and pledged to cut gas discharge by 20 percent in 2020 against 1990.