As President Dmitry Medvedev prepares to join talks to save the planet in Copenhagen, only a minority of Russians will be worrying much about the outcome.
Climate change and the environment are not big issues for most Russians - and most of the time the government seems equally unconcerned.
"Global warming, the Kyoto Protocol, cutting emissions, nuclear waste, incinerators - it might be a topic of discussion among Moscow's business elite, but the masses are nowhere near these issues. No-one's talking about them," said former Russian deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov, an outspoken critic of the current Russian government.
"There is one popular opinion, though - that Russia is a cold country and warming it up slightly wouldn't do any harm."
Russia has pledged to ensure that greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 are at least 25% below 1990 levels.
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