Analysis of ozone-depleting substances reporting in Russian regions for 2018-2024

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Abstract

Depletion of the ozone layer of the atmosphere is one of the global environmental problems, to address which the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer was adopted in 1987. The Montreal Protocol calls for a phase-out of the use of substances that deplete the ozone layer. To implement the requirements of the Montreal Protocol, state registration of the circulation of ozone-depleting substances has been organized on the territory of the Russian Federation. The procedure for state accounting of the circulation of ozone-depleting substances and the forms of annual reporting are established by the Russian Government. In this study, for the period 2018-2022 analyzed annual reports on the management of ozone-depleting substances provided by legal entities and individual entrepreneurs to the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and assessed the dynamics of reporting provided by the Russian regions. It was revealed that the share of the Russian regions, organizations from which do not submit reports on the management of ozone-depleting substances to the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources is on average 36%, despite the fact that the management of ozone-depleting substances in these regions existed. It was established that over the course of five years, more than 50 organizations submitted reports on the management of ozone-depleting substances in just a few the Russian regions. Basically, organizations in the Russian regions either do not report at all, or report, but in small numbers. Based on the results of the work, we can conclude that currently the reporting of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs on the handling of ozone-depleting substances is of a formal nature and does not reflect the real picture of the volume of circulation of ozone-depleting substances in Russia, and therefore state accounting of the circulation of ozone-depleting substances requires improvement.