Expert Discussions on Climate Change to Take Place at ECOCUP Green Talks 2021
What is happening to nature and the climate? How does it impact the global economy? How are countries going to adapt to these changes? These and other questions will be discussed by experts in a series of discussions as part of ECOCUP Green Talks 2021, a festival of ‘green’ documentaries. The event is organized with support from the HSE Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technology in partnership with the Delegation of the European Union to Russia.
On November 20, three discussions will take place between experts and researchers whose work involves the climate, the power industry and economics. ‘The series of discussions, organized with the support of HSE University, is the culmination of the ECOCUP Green Talks 2021 festival research programme,’ said Yulia Kuznetsova, festival curator and Associate Professor at the HSE Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technology. ‘Together with leading scholars, we will discuss the origins of climate change, the changing global economy in this context, and ways of adjusting to these changes’.
Participants of the first discussion, ‘Climate Change: What is Happening to Nature?’, will talk about data from recent climate studies and the dangerous consequences of climate change, as well as territories’ resilience to these changes.
As part of the discussion ‘Climate Crisis and the Global Economy’, experts will discuss how climate change impacts the global economic situation, whether anyone benefits from the climate crisis, and whether the world has enough resources to keep warming within acceptable limits.
The topic of the third discussion is ‘Russia and Climate: Adaptation to the Crisis’. Experts will talk about Russia’s position and its ways of adapting to climate change, as well as carbon polygons, forest climate projects, ESG and more.
The event will feature scholars from the Russian Academy of Sciences, HSE University and other leading Russian universities, as well as representatives of international organizations, business communities and other experts.
Nikolay Kurichev, Dean of the HSE Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technology
In 2022, the Faculty of Geography and Geoinformation Technology will be launching a master’s programme in Low Carbon Development—Russia’s first programme dedicated to assessing the carbon balance of companies and territories and examining tools for managing this balance, from reporting to the implementation of various kinds of climate projects. The programme covers the natural-scientific, financial-economic, legal and administrative aspects of low carbon development. ECOCUP is an opportunity for a wider audience to discuss these problems with experts, including those who will be teaching on the programme.
Natalia Paramonova, Co-Founder and Executive Director of ECOCUP Green Talks 2021
This conference will be the first as part of ECOCUP Green Talks. It has been organized in collaboration with HSE University, which is an honour for us. HSE University’s expertise in climate, ecology and their relationship to economics, finance and everyday life is one of the best in the country. An important aspect of our event is that it is for ‘amateurs’, people who are not deeply immersed in the agenda, but who relate to it and are interested in the topic. HSE experts make studies of the climate and ecology understandable and interesting. I hope that our cooperation will continue.
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