Opening ceremony of the XI Nevsky International Ecological Congress
Food Security amidst Climate Change
Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Andrey Razin — Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation
Artem Belov — Director General, National Union of Milk Producers (Soyuzmoloko)
Alexander Dvoinykh — Chairman of the Federation Council Committee of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Agricultural and Food Policy and Environmental Management
Irina Zhachkina — Member of the Board, First Deputy Chairman of the Board, Russian Agricultural Bank
Johns Kharika — Chief of Science, Technology and Innovation Unit at the secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
Amornsak Kitthananan — Senator and Vice Chairman of the Senate Standing Comimittee on Education, Higher Education, Science Research an Innovation
Vyacheslav Lukomets — Director, P.P. Lukyanenko National Grain Center
Mikhail Rusy — Chairman, Standing Committee for Legislation and State Building, Council of the Republic, National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus
Vyacheslav Timchenko — Chairman of the Committee of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on the regulations and organization of parliamentary activities
Li Hongpeng — Founder, Leshi Agricultural Scientific and Technical Company
Akeksandr Chumak — Deputy head of RusQuality
Andrey Yatskin — First Deputy Speaker, Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Nophadol In-na — Senator and Vice Chairperson Working Group on Science and Technology, Inter-Parliamentary Union (lPU)
Kiatchai Maitriwong — Senator and Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee on Energy, Senate of the Kingdom of Thailand
The Caspian Sea: Cooperation for the Future
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation, Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Interparliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States
The problem of water fluctuations in the sea can only be solved through coordinated response measures at the interstate level of all Caspian states and more collaborative research to study how global climate change in the region is making the sea shallower. Such research is of paramount importance to preserving the ecosystem of the Caspian Sea and ensuring the further sustainable development of the economic activities of Caspian countries. The mechanisms of the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea (the Tehran Convention) are the foundation for the five countries to cooperate on such issues as sea level fluctuations, preventing pollution, protecting the sea against the aftermath of environmental emergencies, as well as the conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of biological resources. What steps need to be taken to enhance cooperation in the transport and logistics sector and build on the region’s tourism potential? What programmes could be developed to preserve biological diversity, including sturgeon and the Caspian seal, as a key indicator of the ecosystem’s sustainability? How can the CASPCOM organization step up its work to address environmental and climate issues in the region? What approaches could be used for the medium-term and long-term forecasting of the Caspian Sea level?
Mukhtar Babayev — Representative of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on Climate Issues
Mahir Aliev — Coordinator, Tehran Convention Secretariat, UN Environment Programme
Sergey Anoprienko — Senator of the Russian Federation
Shina Ansari — Vice President of the Islamic Republic of Iran; Director, Department of Environment of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Denis Afanasiev — Vice-Governor, Chairman of the Government of the Astrakhan Region
Rauf Gadzhiev — Deputy Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Dmitriy Kirillov — Head, Federal Agency for Water Resources
Dmitry Tetenkin — Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation
Ilya Shestakov — Head, Federal Agency for Fisheries (Rosrybolovstvo)
Igor Shumakov — Head, Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring
Andrey Yatskin — First Deputy Speaker, Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Aidar Abdualiev — Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Environmental Regulation and Control of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Baba ANNAEV — Head of the Department for Environmental Protection of the Akhal Velayat, Ministry of Environmental Protection of Turkmenistan
Sergey Zhuravlev — Director, State Hydrological Institute
Yuri Kaminov — Acting Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Kalmykia
Grigory Karasin — Chairman of the Committee of the Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Foreign Affairs
Ibrahim Kerimov — Director, Scientific and Technical Institute of Geoecology and Nature Management; Vice President, Academy of Sciences of the Chechen Republic
Everything for Nature: Artificial Intelligence and High Technologies
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation, Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Interparliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States
Sulaimon Ishanov — Managing Director, ESG Directorate, Sberbank
Evgeny Abakumov — Director for Information Infrastructure, State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom; Scientific Director, Scientific Center of Information Technologies and Artificial Intelligence, Sirius University
Boriy Alikhanov — Member, Committee on Entrepreneurship and the Development of Competition and Industry, Legislative Chamber, Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Alexey Burov — Deputy General Director for Digitalization, Russian Ecological Operator
Nophadol In-na — Senator and Vice Chairperson Working Group on Science and Technology, Inter-Parliamentary Union (lPU)
Stepan Kalmykov — Vice-President, Chairman of the Scientific Council on Global Environmental Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences,Chairperson of the IPA CIS Expert Advisory Board on Ecology and Environmental Management
Alexander Makarov — Director, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
Dimitrios Rallis — Deputy Secretary General of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization
Guo Xinlei — Deputy Director, Department of Hydraulics, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR)
Viacheslav Spirenkov — Deputy Head, Federal Forestry Agency
Konstantin Tsyganov — First Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation
Alexander Zakondyrin — Director, All-Russian Research Institute for Environmental Protection
Dmitriy Kirillov — Head, Federal Agency for Water Resources
Irina Manina — Director, Hydrogen Energy Project Office, Rusatom Integrated Engineering Projects
Ren Minglei — Professor and Senior Engineer, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR)
Oleg Pak — Vice President, Rostelecom
Pavel Cherenkov — CEO, TerraTech
Artem Sheikin — First Deputy Chairman of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Constitutional Legislation and State Building
Sustainable Development of BRICS: How Environmental Projects Change the World for the Better
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation
Kirill Komarov — First Deputy General Director, Director of the Development and International Business Unit, State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM
Shina Ansari — Vice President of the Islamic Republic of Iran; Director, Department of Environment of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Beatrice Atim Anywar — State Minister for Environment of the Republic of Uganda
Irina Bakhtina — Deputy Director General on sustainable development, En+ Group
Balarabe Abbas Lawal — Minister of Environment of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
Bhekizizwe Radebe — MP, House Chairperson for International Relations & MEMEBERS Support National Council of Provinces, Parliament of the Republic of South Africa
Suparwoto Sugeng — Vice-Chairman of Commission XII House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia
Mohammed Saeed Sultan Al Nuaimi — Undersecretary of Ministry of Climate Change & Environment on behalf of United Arab Emirates
Valery Tanaev — Deputy General Director, Chief Engineer, Russian Railways
Dmitry Tetenkin — Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation
Sun Jinlong — Vice Minister of Ecology and Environment of the People`s Republic of China
Ivan Zhydkikh — Executive Secretary of the Climate Policy and Carbon Management Committee, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
Rashid Ismailov — Head of the Russian Ecology Society; Co-Chairman of the Expert Council under the Federation Council Committee on Agriculture and Food Policy and Environmental Management
Alexander Makarov — Director, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
Carlos Alberto Mendez Garcia — Deputy Director of the International Cooperation Department, Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment of the Republic of Cuba
Nelly Paredes Del Castillo — President of the Board of Directors of the National Forest and Wildlife Service of the Republic of Peru
Xin He — Deputy Director, Department for International Cooperation, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research
Developing Ecotourism in Harmony with Nature
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation, Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Interparliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States
Interest in outdoor recreation has been steadily increasing over the last several years. For example, in Russia, federal specially protected natural areas were visited more than 54 million times from 2021 to 2024. Given the growing interest in natural areas among tourists, developing ecotourism as a tool for nature conservation is a major priority.
This session participants will get a better understanding of the specifics of ecotourism, assess the outlook for the further development of these sectors, accentuate the importance of legal regulation and financial support from the government and business, as well as answer pressing questions. What are some common points and paths for the development of ecotourism? What are the main focuses for the development of ecotourism in Russia and around the world? What legislative innovations could be introduced and how should interaction with business be intensified? How crucial are investments for the sustainable growth of ecotourism, state support measures for investors in Russia, and international experience?
Mohmad Akhmadov — Deputy Chairman, Committee on Social Policy, Federation Council of the Russian Federation
Valery Sidorenko — First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Government of the Russian Federation
Yousuf Khalaf Marhoon Al Mujaizi — Assistant Director of Tourism Business Development Ministry of Heritage and Tourism Sultanate of Oman
Natalia Belyakova — Director of the Department of Expedition Activities and Tourism Development, Russian Geographical Society
Filipp Gulyi — Chairman of the Board, Republican Union of Tourism Industry of the Republic of Belarus
Vladislav Donchenko — Doctor of Economics, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, chief scientific officer, St Petersburg scientific research center for ecological safety of the Russian Academy of sciences, Head of international expert group on the development of the model law “On ecological tourism of member Nations Of The Commonwealth Of Independent states”
Anna Zhigulskaya — Head of the Project Office for Internal Communications and Corporate Social Responsibility, Rosatom
Sergei Ivanov — Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation on Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport
Jalal Ismailov — Director of representation office of Azerbaijan Tourism Board in Russia
Roman Koltsa — Chairman, Vitebsk Regional Committee on Natural Resources and Environmental Protection
Elena Kutukova — Director, Ladoga Skerries National Park
Vadim Mamontov — Vice President, Russian Union of Travel Industry; General Director, RussiaDiscovery
Alexey Musakin — Vice President, Russian Hotel Association,co-owner Cronwell Hospitality Group
Elbek Nabiyev — Chief Specialist, Department of International Relations and Ratings, Tourism Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Yevgeny Pankevich — Chairman, St. Petersburg Tourism Development Committee
Elena Perminova — Chairman, Committee on Social Policy, Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Nadezhda Podoplekina — Director, Sebezhsky National Park
Regina Rudakova — Head of the Russian Representative Office of the Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Heritage of Oman, General Manager of COATI Representative
Tatiana Sakharova — Deputy Chairman, Federation Council Committee of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Agricultural and Food Policy and Environmental Management
Batyr Tursunov — Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Sergey Khvorostyany — Deputy General Director for International Relations and Tourism, Rosa Khutor, Representative, Eurasian Alliance of Mountain Resorts
Khaloud Salim Khalaf Al Kaabi — Head of Section of European & American Markets Business Development Department Ministry of Heritage and Tourism The Sultanate of Oman
Oleg Berkovich — Deputy Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region
Nikolay Giryaev — Advisor of the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Y.L. Vorobyova
Vladimir Klimanov — Director, Institute for Public Finance Reform (IPFR); Head of the Regional Policy Center, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)
Irina Makanova — Director of the Department of State Policy and Regulation in the Development of Specially Protected Natural Areas, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation
Mikomba Claudia Mpemba — President, Ocelegii Globale Ecotourisme
Kirill Rodin — Director for Government Relations, Russian Public Opinion Research Center
Sergey Rybakov — General Director, Foundation "Nature and People"
Circular Economy: Growth Points, Challenges and Prospects
Russian Environmental Operator, Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Kirill Tokarev — Editor-in-Chief, Anchor, RBC
Mukhtar Babayev — Representative of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on Climate Issues
Denis Butsayev — Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation
Yekaterina Gorshkova — CEO, Nevsky Environmental Operator
Alexander Dvoinykh — Chairman of the Federation Council Committee of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Agricultural and Food Policy and Environmental Management
Dmitry Kobylkin — Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Ecology,Natural Resources and Environmental Protection
Kiatchai Maitriwong — Senator and Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee on Energy, Senate of the Kingdom of Thailand
Andrey Nikipelov — Deputy General Director for Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Solutions, State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom
Gleb Nikitin — Governor of Nizhny Novgorod Region
Irina Tarasova — CEO, Russian Environmental Operator
Subsoil Use and the Environment: Global Challenges and Maintaining Balance
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation, Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Alexey Bobrovsky — Economic Observer
Aidar Abdualiev — Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Environmental Regulation and Control of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Malik Mohammed Al-Wardy — Associate Professor and Director of Center of Environmental Studies ans Research, Sultan Qaboos University
Elena Gerasimovich — Environmental Manager, Salym Petroleum Development
Ruslan Dimukhamedov — Chairman, Association of Producers and Consumers of Rare Metals and Rare Earth Elements; General Director, Solikamsk Magnesium Plant (SMZ)
Andrey Epishin — Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on the budget and financial markets
Oleg Kazanov — Head, Federal Agency for Mineral Resources
Natalya Komarova — First Deputy Chair, Committee on Agrarian and Food Policy and Environmental Management, Federation Council of the Russian Federation
Vladimir Litvinenko — Rector, Saint-Petersburg Mining University
Stanislav Seleznev — Vice President for Environment and Industrial Safety, Norilsk Nickel
Dmitry Tetenkin — Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation
Valentin Yambarshev — Head of the Main Department of Natural Resources of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus
Svetlana Gerasimova — Head, Project Office “Strategies and Practices of Sustainable Development”
Sergey Davydov — General Director, Good Ecology
Alexander Zhukov — First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Roman Kuchin — Rector of Yugra State University
Low-Carbon Solutions for Green Economy Development
State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, Interparliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Elina Tikhonova — Anchor, RBC
Ousmane Abarchi — Minister of Mines of the Republic of the Niger
Mukhtar Babayev — Representative of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on Climate Issues
Alexander Dvoinykh — Chairman of the Federation Council Committee of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Agricultural and Food Policy and Environmental Management
Alexey Likhachev — Director General, State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM
Sergey Maslyak — Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus
Sara Pavkov — Minister of Environmental Protection of the Republic of Serbia
Suparwoto Sugeng — Vice-Chairman of Commission XII House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia
Valery Tanaev — Deputy General Director, Chief Engineer, Russian Railways
Women’s Role in Achieving Ecological Well-Being
Council of the Eurasian Women's Forum under the Federation Council, Association of Women in the Nuclear Industry
Galina Karelova — Chairperson, Council of the Eurasian Women’s Forum under the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Federal Structure, Regional Policy, Local Self-Government and Northern Affairs
Shina Ansari — Vice President of the Islamic Republic of Iran; Director, Department of Environment of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Beatrice Atim Anywar — State Minister for Environment of the Republic of Uganda
Narnia Bohler-Muller — Executive Director, Developmental, Capable, and Ethical State Research Division, Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa; Climate Scientist
Guzeliya Imaeva — Chief Executive Officer, NAFI Research Centre
Yulia Kalistova — Amur Basin Environmental Prosecutor
Dinara Kemelova — Special Presidential Representative for the Implementation of the Five-Year Action Plan for the Development of the Mountain Regions of Kyrgyzstan
Alexandra Ryabykh — Co-chairman, All-Russian Environmental Public Movement "Ecosystem"
Helina Teklu — Chief Executive Officer, Seed Balls Ethiopia, Climate Change Africa
Tatyana Terentyeva — Deputy Director General for Human Resources, State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM
Anastasia Faterina — Public Figure; Volunteer Group Director, Clean Arctic Public Environmental Project; Director, ‘Skazano–Sdelano’ (‘No Sooner Said Than Done’) Media Project
Le Thu Ha — Deputy chief of the National Assembly's Office
Ecology of Big Cities
Moscow Government, Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, The Roscongress Foundation
The ecology of big cities is one of the pressing issues of our time. With the growth in urbanization and population sizes, megacities face numerous environmental challenges that require immediate solutions. Life expectancy and quality of life depend on the state of the environment, among other factors. Particular attention should be paid to measures that simultaneously preserve the environment and protect human health.
The business breakfast participants will discuss current solutions for the sustainable environmental development of cities. The session will examine key challenges that big cities face in terms of environmental protection, as well as strategies and technologies that aim to improve the environmental situation.
The discussion will focus on some of the following real cases that large cities face: preserving the urban green and water infrastructure as the basis for a city’s ecological well-being: (development and maintenance of the green infrastructure, specific features of the regulation and monitoring of the water and green infrastructure, ecosystem functions and their consideration in landscaping planning, methodology for analysing the water and green infrastructure),using modern technologies to respond to new urbanization challenges, reducing the carbon load and developing eco-friendly transport, experience of global cities in the development of transport that runs on alternative fuels, ecology and health: from environmental protection to health conservation.
The participants of the discussion will discuss the following questions:
What prospects for environmental development are expected based on real city cases?
Which leadership practices need to be reinforced in urban environmental management?
What innovative technologies exist aimed at preserving and improving human health
Michael Gibson — Presenter of the TV channel "Greater Asia"
Kirill Tokarev — Editor-in-Chief, Anchor, RBC
Mukhtar Babayev — Representative of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on Climate Issues
Alexander Beglov — Governor of St. Petersburg
Batyr Berdyklychev — Representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the Russian Federation
Evgeny Danchikov — Minister of the Government of Moscow, Head of the Main Control Department of the City of Moscow
Elvira Dovletyarova — Director of Agrarian and Technological Institute, RUDN University
Roman Koltsa — Chairman, Vitebsk Regional Committee on Natural Resources and Environmental Protection
Alexey Likhachev — Director General, State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM
Vladislav Loginov — Mayor of Krasnoyarsk
Natalya Manturova — Head, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Cosmetology and Cell Technologies, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (RNRMU); Chief Temporary Plastic Surgeon, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Sergey Naidenko — Director, Institute of Problems of Ecology and Evolution. A.N. Severtsov Russian Academy of Sciences
Gleb Nikitin — Governor of Nizhny Novgorod Region
Shamil Pozdniakov — Director of the Institute for Research of Continental Water Bodies, Russian State Hydrometeorological University
Ekaterina Salugina-Sorokovaya — First Vice President, Gazprombank
Inna Svyatenko — Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Orhan Solak — Deputy Director of the Directorate of Climate Change at the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change of the Republic of Türkiye
Quoc Cuong Tran — Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Secretary of the Party Committee of Dien Bien Province
Andrey Yatskin — First Deputy Speaker, Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Yuliya Vishnevskaya — Director, Deputy Head of the Directorate for Relations with Government Agencies and the Public Ilim Group
Aleksey Sukhikh — Director of Labor Protection, Fire Safety and Ecology Ilim Group