The Russian Ministry for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic has supported the idea of creating a separate legislative act on permafrost, which can include the entire system of regulating the effects of climate change, said the First Deputy Minister Hajimagomed Huseynov.
"We support the idea of the possibility of adopting a separate legislative act on permafrost, which would include the whole range of issues, including monitoring, construction issues, and other aspects related to responding to the degradation of permafrost. Of course, there is no need to build new urban planning legislation or any other building regulations, maybe this unified law should be called something else, but it is important to resolve this issue now," Huseynov said.
The Arctic zone of the Russian Federation is two-thirds permafrost. The warming process violates the conditions for maintaining the stability of permafrost soils. These processes have accelerated in the last five years, TASS reports.
"We need to adopt a separate law, if you want, let's remove the word "law", but we need to create a system to respond to this problem," the deputy head of the Ministry of Regional Development stressed.
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