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This was stated by the Minister in charge of Trade of the Eurasian Economic Commission during the "Relevance of the Climate Agenda in Key Economies of Eurasia" session held as part of SPIEF-2022

"Climate was the key topic at the last forum. Today, the emphasis has certainly changed, but no one has canceled the technological transition. We need to understand how we can combine these two trends," he said. .

Andrey Slepnev recalled that recently the heads of the EAEU countries had adopted a statement where they had clearly set out the relevant approaches based on the need to be included in the main climate processes precisely in the capacity of the Union. "On the one hand, understanding that obligations to reduce CO2 emissions have been taken by the states at the national level. On the other hand, realizing that our Union is based on a single market and we need to ensure compliance with the challenges of technological transformation without the emergence of barriers or restrictions," Andrey Slepnev explained.
The single market operation will be included in the first package of measures (road map). Issues of cross-border transfer of carbon units are also being discussed. It is necessary to resolve issues of technical regulation: the EAEU remains one of the few large markets where there is still no opinion about admitting cars with traditional internal combustion engines to the market.

"Certainly, the key element includes agreed upon or coordinated tariff and fiscal measures, which should create incentives for the energy transition by industry, by timing. In the context of today's events, there is a significant potential for cooperation on production in the new technological paradigm," the EEC Minister in charge of Trade continued.

At the same time, according to Andrey Slepnev, there are many interesting projects that businesses are already implementing in each of their areas. The Commission has collected a bank of more than a hundred initiatives implemented by serious companies, and these companies are ready to re-implement them both within the Union and in third countries.
Another topic is the financial resource, the EEC Minister in charge of Trade concluded.

The session was also attended by Tatyana Zavyalova, Senior Vice President for ESG at Sberbank, Kairat Kelimbetov, Manager of the Astana International Financial Center, Samvel Lazaryan, Head of the Macroeconomic Research Center of the Research Institute of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Armenia, Zafar Makhmudov, Executive Director of the Regional Environmental Center for Central Asia, Sergei Storchak, Senior Banker VEB.RF, Ilya Torosov, First Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Andrei Sharonov, General Director of the National Alliance for Social and Environmental Responsibility, Corporate Governance and Sustainable Development, Kirill Purtov, Moscow Government Minister, Ivan Sovetnikov, Head of the Federal Forestry Agency of the Russian Federation. The discussion was moderated by Kirill Nikitin, Director of the Tax Policy Center of the Department of Economics of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University.