Strategic Session “ESG Principles: Opportunities for the Development of the Arctic in the New Geopolitical Realities”

Today, support for socio-economic stability, import substitution, cost reduction, renewal of supply chains and diversification are coming to the fore.

It is worth noting that the ESG strategies of companies are inextricably linked with risk management, and the vast majority of experts agree that the greatest dangers and threats await us from the environment and climate change. This is especially true for Arctic ecosystems, where natural recovery processes are slow and the nature of the extractive industries business has extreme, unforeseen, irreversible consequences.

Environmental regional problems caused by the "fragility" of the ecosystems of the Arctic territories and the need to develop very nature-intensive industries, as well as the region's infrastructure problems, will lead to difficulties in the implementation of Arctic investment projects and contradictions between ambitious, strategically important projects and socio-environmental, economic and infrastructure regional problems.

Overcoming these contradictions is possible with the development of responsible investment, taking into account ESG factors in the development and implementation of projects in the regions of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation.

In the focus of the discussion::

New approaches to the sustainable development agenda in the new macroeconomic realities

Pressing directions and opportunities for the development of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation in the framework of fulfilling the tasks of creating domestic import-substituting products that comply with the principles of sustainable development

Infrastructure projects implemented to achieve the strategic goals of sustainable development in the Arctic regions

Regulatory policy aimed at the formation of state support measures to promote the sustainable development agenda and responsible financing in the Arctic

Green tools of financial institutions and their role in the transition to the principles of sustainable development in the Arctic zone

Green bonds as a promising tool for financing infrastructure projects in Yakutia

 

Moderator:

Ekaterina Kuzmina, Head, Directorate of Sustainable Development, PSB Bank (Moscow, Russia)

 

Part 1.

Invited to participate:

Kirill BYCHKOV, First Deputy Chairman, Government of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) – in person

Marina BOGOSLOVSKAYA, Chairman, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) – in person

Elena TEPLYAKOVA, Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Development of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) – in person

Andrey SHARONOV, Director General, Alliance for Sustainable Development – online

Nikolai DOLGUNOV, Chairman, Almazergienbank JSCB – in person

Alexey DYACHKOVSKY, Deputy General Director, ALROSA JSC

Anna STRUCHKOVA, Director General, Agency for Attracting Investments and Supporting Exports of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) – in person

Кузнецов Михаил Евгеньевич, директор ФАНУ «Востокгосплан». «Развитие транспорта и инфраструктуры в Арктике как основы устойчивого развития региона»

Anatoly NIKOLAEV, Biology Doctor, Rector, Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University (Yakutsk, Russia) ESG-Transformation of the University in the Face of Growing Uncertainty in the Environment – in person

Сирченко Александр Александрович, туроператор FUN&SUN (ex. TUI РОССИЯ) – «Потенциал построения туристского бизнеса по принципам устойчивого развития»

Корчунов Николай Викторович, посол по особым поручениям МИД РФ, Председатель комитета старших должностных лиц Арктического совета

Dzhulustan KHON, First Deputy Minister of Ecology, Nature Management and Forestry of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) - welcome address and discussions

Part 2.

Invited to participate::

Anna TSEPA, Programme Head, Department of Regional Development, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation – online

Alexey KORNILOV, Chief Analyst, Otkrytie Investments JSC ESG Principles: Relevance for Making Investment Decisions – in person

Vladimir TOSHCHENKO, Director General, Arctic Power Capital LLC Project Financing of ESG Projects (Construction of Hybrid Power Plants) in the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation – online

Тюкавкина Наталья Владимировна, руководитель Управления по устойчивому развитию АО АКБ «Алмазэргиенбанк». Тема — «Финансовые и нефинансовые сервисы АКБ «Алмазэргиенбанк» AO для развития устойчивого бизнеса в РС(Я)»

Винокурова Наталия Альбертовна, заместитель директора по промышленной логистике компании Nawinia, Председатель Правления Ассоциации «Женщины в энергетике» Сколковского института науки и технологий. Тема – «Возможности консалтинга как поддержки ESG трансформации»

Vladislav TEREKHOV, Director General, Svetocultura Research and Production Centre High-Precision Agriculture based on Digital Technologies – a Foundation for Ensuring Food Security and Development of the Arctic and Northern Regions of the Russian Federation – in person

Мясоедова Вера Васильевна, профессор, д.х.н., эксперт РАН, академик РИА, член-корреспондент РАЕН, главный научный сотрудник ФИЦ ХФ РАН, Генеральный директор ООО «ИК ВМ». Тема — «Трансфер суверенных технологий и повышение инвестиционной привлекательности предприятий Арктики»

Pavel MARINYCHEV, Director General, Almazy Anabara JSC On the Experience of Almazy Anabara JSC Interaction with the Indigenous Peoples in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) - in person

14:30 — Кофе

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