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...
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...
... 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 ...
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...