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The Importance of the Climate Agenda in Key Eurasian Economies

16 Jun , 15:00–16:15
The New Economic Order: Responding to the Challenges of the Time
Pavilion F, conference hall F3

A joint climate agenda should be one of the unifying projects in such a diverse region as Eurasia. Today, economic cooperation needs to be developed as part of the climate agenda, partly in an effort to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, including the necessary approaches and mechanisms based on the principles of the EAEU functioning as a single market. Realizing the unique potential of Greater Eurasia to achieve climate goals will require rapid solutions to a number of practical issues: reaching a political consensus on key areas of cooperation; preventing negative socioeconomic effects, such as the widening gap between developed and developing nations and the emergence of barriers to trade and investment; finding a balance in public-private partnerships in green financing to stimulate technological transformation, including through extrabudgetary funds; creating a foundation for the free movement of carbon units within the EAEU and further integration with major trading partners; and facilitating the availability of technologies that help reduce emissions and ensure low-carbon development as well as the efficient and sustainable use of fossil-based resources. Given the current geopolitical situation, is the climate agenda a focus in economic collaboration? How do such issues as accelerated import substitution correlate with the objectives of low-carbon development? How can funding be secured for the transition in technologies? Are the funding sources clear, and how can we bridge the gap with the actual scale of the investment that is needed? How can we transform low-carbon technologies from a zone of competition into a zone of cooperation? Is an international climate technology bank a real possibility?

Moderator
Kirill Nikitin, Director, Tax Policy Center of the Department of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Panellists
Tatiana Zavyalova, Senior Vice President for ESG, Sberbank
Kairat Kelimbetov, Governor, Astana International Financial Center (online)
Samvel Lazarian, Head of the Centre for Macroeconomic Research, Financial Research Institute of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation
Zafar Makhmudov, Chief Executive Officer, The Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia
Andrey Slepnev, Member of the Board, Minister in Charge of Trade, Eurasian Economic Commission
Sergey Storchak, Senior Banker, VEB.RF
Ilya Torosov, First Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Andrey Sharonov, Chief Executive Officer, National ESG-Alliance

Front row participants
Kirill Purtov, Minister of the Government of Moscow; Head, Department for Economic Policy and Development of the City of Moscow
Ivan Sovetnikov, Head, Federal Forestry Agency

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