The XIII International Forum

December 7-8, 2023, St.Petersburg

Arctic: today and the future

HISTORY: 2017 - VII INTERNATIONAL FORUM «ARCTIC: THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE»

Information about report: Arctic climate change

Working session

Arctic climate change

Project*

 


The Arctic is one of the four regions of the world, classified by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as the most vulnerable to climate change. The rise in temperature, the melting of ice, permafrost can have a significant negative impact on the global climate. Currently, the international community recognizes the need to jointly solve the natural and climatic problems of the Arctic. The Russian Federation as the main arctic power should become the coordinator of this process.

Issues for discussion:

  • International cooperation to address climate change in the Arctic
  • Global Climate Change as a factor affecting Russia's economic security
  • Mechanisms of state control over the environmental situation in the Arctic
  • Control over the activities of large industrial companies in the Arctic

Disputants:

MAKSIM IAKOVENKO*

Head of the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring

ALEKSANDR BEDRITSKII*

Presidential Advisor of the RF on Climate Changes Affairs

VLADIMIR PROKOPEV

Chairman of the Standing Committee on Land Matters, Natural Resources and Ecology of the State Assembly (Il Tumen) of the Sakha Yakutia Republic

OLEG ANISIMOV

Head of the Climate Change Research Department, State Hydrological Institute

ALEKSEI KOKORIN

Head of the Climate and Energy Program, WWF Russia

VLADIMIR KATSOV

Director of Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory

MARIANNE KROGLUND*

Chair of Working Group AMAP (Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme) 

ALEXIS McGIVERN

Head of Projects of the International Union for Conservation of Nature

GENRIKH ALEKSEEV

Head of Cooperation of Atmosphere with Ocean Department of the State Research Center "Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute"

 

* Changes in the draft program are possible