On September 21, 2021, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) with the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and Third Generation Environmentalism (E3G) held workshop (chatham house format) on green agenda approaches and energy transition. The workshop was organized within the framework of the sixth round of the project “A New Agenda for Russia–UK Relations”
On September 21, 2021, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) with the Royal United Services ...
... way of deepening the rift in ideas and values.
Another important process that is rapidly developing amid the devolution of EU–Russia relations is the deliberate
deconstruction of economic interdependence
. The European Union’s strategy to reduce energy dependence on Russian hydrocarbons, the global trend towards increased protectionism, and the course of economic autarky that Russia settled on in 2014 are augmented today with a new challenge to economic interdependence, which is the EU’s transition ...
... Willershausen, Member of the Management Board, CREON Group; Anastasiia Lavrenteva, Managing Director at Gazprombank; Alexey Spirin, Director of the Environmental and Climate Risk Management Department of En+ Group; and Ernesto Ferlenghi, Chairman of the Energy Committee, Chair of the Green Initiative Steering Committee of the Association of European Businesses; spoke about the vision of the business community on the prospects and challenges of interaction between Russia and the EU in the ecology sphere, green investments, and sustainable development.
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..., restoring biodiversity and curbing pollution.
While obviously having an impact on the EU economy, the implementation of the Deal will also concern the economies and foreign commerce of its trading partners through the anticipated re-structuring of energy markets and reduced carbon-intensive imports. In the next decade, the European Green Deal will mostly affect coal imports, possibly followed by oil and gas imports after 2030. By 2030,
coal imports
are expected to reduce by 71–77% of the 2015 ...
We have no need in a VIP limousine equipped with a motorcycle engine
Our world is immersed in a huge ocean of energy, we fly in
infinite space with an incomprehensible speed. Everything
rotates, moves, everything is energy (N. Tesla)
Defining the concept of energy security
In the countries whose economy is largely dependent on exploration of the principal fossil ...
... 12:00 (MSK), Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and CREON Group company will hold a seminar on the topic “Prospects for cooperation between Russia and the EU in the ecology sphere”.
Cooperation between Russia and the European Union in ecology and sustainable development field is one of the promising areas of bilateral relations. For Russia and Russian companies, this opens up prospects in the EU energy market and access to technologies for waste processing and production of renewable energy sources. For the European Union and companies from the EU countries, this is an opportunity to import products that meet its environmental standards.
However,...
... Again
The new US administration is making decisions in the Arctic that sharply contrast with the measured approach most regional actors are taking. In late April, President Trump signed an executive order as part of his
“America-First Offshore Energy Strategy”
, which intends to open offshore drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans and conduct energy exploration of marine sanctuaries in both areas, despite warnings by national security
experts
. Amidst concerns that the Trump administration ...
... carbon markets based on the trade of emission permits among countries provided for flexibility in meeting national emission reduction commitments. Russia for instance took advantage of the Joint Implementation scheme which provided investments into energy efficiency, renewables and other low-carbon options. In a new agreement, market mechanisms prove to be difficult to define due to the bottom-up nature of mitigation, complexity and simply political differences in country positions. This is not ...
The modern world is characterized by change and development, which leads to a growth in global energy consumption, primarily on the part of developed countries and developing countries with rapidly growing economies.
The economic crisis of 2008–2009 brought chaos to the global energy market, which resulted in an even more intense struggle ...
On October 30-November 2, 2014, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov visited Menaggio, Italy, to attend the 2nd Global Table "Limited Resources – Opportunities without Borders" devoted to issues of global resource management.
Co-sponsored by the BMW Foundation and Earth Security Group, the event attracted experts, diplomats and business and civil society representatives from Europe, Asia and Latin America, who focused on optimization of international and national mechanisms for managing...
