Shishkin Sergey Ivanovich Kolobov Roman Yurievich

There is growing concern about global climate change in the twenty-first century. The special role of market mechanisms for reducing greenhouse gas emissions based on emissions trading is highlighted. The study examines the current legal regulation of the creation and operation of sites for the development and testing of carbon balance control technologies (carbon sites). The provisions of subordinate agency regulations are analytically grouped in order to identify their systemic interrelationships. The objectives of the critical analysis of the regulatory framework governing the implementation of activities at carbon testing grounds predetermine the need to study the practice of its application. The initial results of the activities of a number of sites are presented, with a focus on the implementation of climate projects involving the issuance of carbon credits. Attention is drawn to the uneven distribution of the created sites across the territory of the Russian Federation. The main feature of the regulation of carbon sites is the predominance of departmental subordinate regulation. Based on the analysis, contradictions and gaps in the system of existing regulatory acts are identified. Various possibilities for improving the legal regime for the activities of participants in programs for the creation and operation of carbon sinks are presented. Specific amendments to the Federal Law “On the Limitation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions” will make it possible to quickly establish the necessary conceptual framework, requirements for entities participating in the activities of the carbon sink, and their rights and obligations. More extensive changes involve modifying the structure of the federal law and adding sections to it, one of which could be devoted to the legal regime for carbon sinks. The conclusion formulates the desirability of creating carbon sinks in the Irkutsk region.

carbon neutrality, carbon sink, carbon credits, carbon farm

Shishkin Sergey Ivanovich – Doctor of Juridical Sciences, Professor, Chief of the Department of the Constitutional Law and Theory Law, Law Institute, Irkutsk State University (1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation); Head of the Laboratory for Legal Issues in High-Tech Industries, A. E. Favorsky Irkutsk Institute of Chemistry (1, Favorsky st., Irkutsk, 664033, Russian Federation), RSCI Author ID: 482251, ORCID: 0000-0003-4498-8631, e-mail: shishkin1957@rambler.ru

Kolobov Roman Yurievich – Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of International Law and Comparative Law, Law Institute, Irkutsk State University (1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation); Leading Researcher, A. E. Favorsky Irkutsk Institute of Chemistry SB RAS (1, Favorsky st., Irkutsk, 664033, Russian Federation), ORCID: 0000-0003-1488-7530, Researcher ID: H-4644-2016, e-mail: roman.kolobov@gmail.com

Shishkin S. I., Kolobov R. Y. Pravovoj rezhim karbonovyh poligonov v Rossijskoj Federacii: sovremennoe sostoyanie i perspektivy razvitiya [The legal regime of carbon sites in the Russian Federation: current status and prospects for development] Sibirskij yuridicheskij vestnik [Siberian Law Herald]. 2025, no 3(110), pp. 40–47. – DOI 10.26516/2071-8136.2025.3.40 (in Russian)

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