This Order implements United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The purpose of this Order shall be data collection and centralized registration of documentation on emissions and greenhouse gas sinks as a result of climate projects, reducing anthropogenous emissions or increasing greenhouse gas sinks, carried out by economic entities on the territory of the Russian Federation, with a view of inserting the aforesaid data into the Unified state database of environmental information. Data collection and centralized registration thereof shall be carried out by the Federal Hydrometeorological and Environmental Monitoring Service and other federal executive bodies in the process of carrying out environmental monitoring activity. Data collection results and reports shall be submitted within 1 April with the reference period of the previous year. Criteria recommended by the UNFCC Intergovernmental expert group.
Order No. 40 of the Federal Hydrometeorological and Environmental Monitoring Service validating the Regulation on centralized registration of the documents on emissions and greenhouse gas sinks.