CLIMATE CHALLENGES TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Abstract

ABSTRACT
The problem of scrutinizing the legal mechanisms for implementing the basic principles of sustainable development in the face of climate challenges as well as systematizing and coordinating the totality of legal regulation of environmental and climate nature is extremely important. The article deals with topical problems of the climate component of the environmental and economic policy of the European Union, their impact on ensuring the national economic interests of the Russian Federation. It is shown that today the issues of climate change are considered in the context of the general problems of global politics, as illustrated by the UN World Climate Summit held in Glasgow. The authors conclude that in foreign practice the issues of global warming are becoming not only a tool for ensuring environmental safety, but a convenient mechanism for solving economic problems. The authors show that at present the process of transition to sustainable development both in the global world and in Russia is proceeding with tangible contradictions and difficulties. One of the main reasons is that in the indicated decision-making models, the economic component of sustainable development, which is fundamental for business, goes by the wayside. The article is aimed at improving environmental and legal mechanisms for ensuring climate security in order to advance a balanced state environmental (climatic) policy in the new economic and political conditions of Russia's socio-economic development.