Mayor Sergei Sobyanin opened Moscow's first environmental study center, Vorobyovy Hills, and launched the city's "environmental clock."
The ceremony took place on Saturday. The clock, located in the city's southwest, shows CO2 emissions, water and electricity consumption in Moscow, throughout Russia and across the world in real time mode.
"We will work to reduce these indices," Moscow's chief environmental official Anton Kulbachevsky told Sobyanin.
The eco-center has an area of 1,000 square meters (10,760 sq ft). Forty schoolchildren can visit it simultaneously.
MOSCOW, January 23 (RIA Novosti)
