RUSSIA’S GREEN AGENDA: ECOLOGY FOR SUSTAINABLE GROWTH

RUSSIA’S GREEN AGENDA: ECOLOGY FOR SUSTAINABLE GROWTH

23 June, 10:00–11:15


With climate change and environmentally sustainable growth remaining high on the global agenda, Russia holds huge potential for economic modernization and improved environmental management through green investments. Is it an opportune moment to reassess Russia’s environmental policies and promote a green agenda for more sustainable development? What are the risks and opportunities to such an approach?











Key moments

Increasing energy efficiency provides a real economic benefit, both to the consumer and to the companies that process, transmit, generate, and sell it. This is obvious; therefore this can be a direct incentive.
Alexei Poleshchuk
Household environmental responsibility means business, income and jobs.
Vsevolod Gavrilov