Search: Environment Protection (4 materials)

The Earth Against Waste

On April, 22 which is Earth Day established to draw the world’s attention to environmental protection, we asked our experts about one of the most urgent problems facing the modern world: how to deal with the increasing quantities of waste. Sigitas Rinkevičius, Head of the Waste Management Projects Department at COWI Lietuva, and Alexander Solovyaninov, Director of the Higher School of Economics’ Institute for Economics of Natural Resource Use and Environmental Policy, spoke about the...

28.04.2014

Arctic Technologies Need to Be Improved

Interview with Alexander Shestakov (WWF) Interview Economic development in the Arctic has recently been in the global spotlight. We discussed plans for exploiting natural resources in the Arctic, and the potential impact that economic activities may have on the region’s environment, with Alexander Shestakov, Director of the Global Arctic Programme at the World Wildlife Fund How would developing the Arctic’s natural resources impact its environment and biodiversity? It depends on how...

30.12.2013

International Cooperation in Environment Protection, Preservation, and Rational Management of Biological Resources in the Arctic Ocean

... interests in the Arctic by establishing effective international interaction in this region RIAC initiated the project titled “Roadmap for International Cooperation in the Arctic”. The International scientific symposium “International Cooperation in Environment Protection, Preservation, and Rational Management of Biological Resources in the Arctic Ocean” was organized in the framework of this project. This Working Paper includes texts of presentations at the symposium held in Moscow on September ...

01.04.2013

An international theoretical & practical seminar under the Arctic project held September 4

The Russian International Affairs Council, in cooperation with the Russian Association of International Maritime Law and the Pew International Environmental Group , has held an international theoretical & practical seminar entitled "International cooperation in the field of environmental protection, conservation and sound management of biological resources in the Arctic Ocean" . The event took place on September 4, 2012 and was part of the project "Roadmap for International cooperation...

05.09.2012

Poll conducted

  1. In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
     33 (31%)
    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
     21 (19%)
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