{"id":39678,"date":"2025-11-02T09:52:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=39678"},"modified":"2025-11-02T09:54:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:54:33","slug":"russia-uses-climate-issues-as-a-weapon-in-the-information-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/global-south\/russia-uses-climate-issues-as-a-weapon-in-the-information-war\/","title":{"rendered":"russia uses climate issues as a weapon in the information war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>kremlin&#8217;s disinformation machine has launched a new campaign \u2014 an attempt to undermine trust in the European Green Deal and portray climate policy as a &#8220;threat to ordinary Europeans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f As EUvsDisinfo analysts point out, previously the kremlin paid little attention to the topic of climate change, but after the adoption of the 18th package of sanctions against russia, it sharply intensified attacks on the European Green Deal. These messages have a single goal \u2014 to weaken support for sanctions and maintain Europe&#8217;s dependence on Russian energy resources.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f In its propaganda, russia spreads a number of fake narratives: &#8220;green energy is a deception and a failure,&#8221; the EU &#8220;destroys its own industry&#8221; and &#8220;kills farmers&#8221; through climate policy. A separate direction is manipulations around the topic of &#8220;green protectionism.&#8221; The kemlin tries to mislead Global South countries by imposing the idea that the EU &#8220;uses environmental standards to block their development.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In reality, the Green Deal and reducing dependence on russian energy resources are key factors in the EU&#8217;s energy security. When the kremlin attacks the West&#8217;s &#8220;green policy,&#8221; calling it &#8220;green tyranny&#8221; or &#8220;climate fraud,&#8221; it is not protecting the environment but its own profits to finance the war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>kremlin&#8217;s disinformation machine has launched a new campaign \u2014 an attempt to undermine trust in the European Green Deal and portray climate policy as a &#8220;threat to ordinary Europeans.&#8221; \u25ab\ufe0f As EUvsDisinfo analysts point out, previously the kremlin paid little attention to the topic of climate change, but after the adoption of the 18th package&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":933,"footnotes":""},"categories":[933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-south"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}