UNITED NATIONS, December 10 (Sputnik) — Russia has "tremendous potential" in reducing emissions, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said.
The meeting was held on the margins of the UN Climate Change Conference and was devoted to emissions reductions.
Russia's "leadership role on climate change could have a tremendously positive impact in mobilizing higher levels of ambition and action from others," the readout stated.
A two-week long climate change conference, which is currently taking place in Lima, Peru, started on December 1 and gathered experts from across the globe amid increasing concerns about record-breaking temperatures.
The Lima climate talks aim to propose a binding universal draft agreement on climate change, which is expected to be adopted at the UN Climate Change Conference in France in 2015.
