Russian Chelyabinsk, Magnitogorsk, Nizhny Tagil To Cut Emissions By 20% By 2024 - Minister

Three cities of Russia's Ural Federal District Chelyabinsk, Magnitogorsk and Nizhny Tagil will be covered by the federal program "Clean Air," stipulating a 20 percent reduction in air emissions by 2024, Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Dmitry Kobylkin said on Thursday.

YEKATERINBURG (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 01st November, 2018) Three cities of Russia's Ural Federal District Chelyabinsk, Magnitogorsk and Nizhny Tagil will be covered by the federal program "Clean Air," stipulating a 20 percent reduction in air emissions by 2024, Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Dmitry Kobylkin said on Thursday.

"Federal project 'Clean air' covers Chelyabinsk, Magnitogorsk and Nizhny Tagil, under which it is planned to reduce the total volume of emissions by 20% in the period up to 2024," Kobylkin said at a meeting on environmental issues in the Ural Federal District.

According to Kobylkin, the Ural Federal District demands special attention in light of its environmental problems, with the work under the project expected to be divided into five main areas: waste management, air, water, biodiversity, and affordable technologies.

One of the main goals is to improve the quality of air, the ministry stressed, adding that water treatment was another acute problem, as some water bodies in the region are assessed as polluted or even extremely polluted.

The Ural Federal District is an industrial region, with the Chelyabinsk, Magnitogorsk and Nizhny Tagil being the cities with high level of air pollution.