"ST PETERSBURG - Russia's offer to reduce emissions as part of a new global climate change agreement due to be agreed in December is not ambitious enough as it will require little additional effort, experts have said.

Russia submitted its climate action plan to the United Nations late Tuesday, joining other big emitters ahead of a soft end-of-March deadline, pledging to cut its emissions by 25-30 percent by 2030 from 1990 levels.

With Russia's submission, 32 developed countries, covering nearly 80 percent of total emissions from industrialised nations, had delivered their contributions to the Paris agreement, the U.N. climate change secretariat said."

Angelina Davydova reports for the Thomson Reuters Foundation April 2, 2015. [2]