Valdai Club

Alexander Stukalin

Yoram Schweitzer

Vsevolod Sviridov

Irina Strelnikova

Xu Sitao

Randall Schweller

Vladimir Sotnikov

Dmitry Sychev

Robert Smigielski

Ekaterina Savorskaya

Associate professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Materials

Can the Pandemic Accelerate a Green Transformation?

The world needs change more than ever. Sustainable development and green growth are now key issues on the global agenda, but the actions taken by the international community to pursue related environmental objectives have remained restrained and often lack sufficient political will. Could the COVID-19 pandemic provide the necessary impetus for a full-scale green transformation?

Climate Policy in a Global Risk Society

The only positive outcome of the coronavirus pandemic was the rapid self-cleansing of the environment. Emissions from factories ceased as they were shut down and there was lighter traffi c, resulting in better air quality. This has been corroborated by satellite images and meteorological monitoring data in many countries. Then, river water got cleaner.

How Brexit Will Affect Emission Allowance Trading in Europe

The European Union has highly developed policies and laws to combat climate change. Among them is the Emission Trading System (ETS), the first and still the biggest such system in the world.

Global Environmental Ideologies: Can the Conflict between Humans and Nature Be Overcome?

A gradual shift is occurring in modern world politics away from pure geopolitics and hard and soft power of sovereign states towards tackling global environmental, resource, demographic, and social challenges.

Video

Green Agenda as a Priority of the Post-Covid World. An Online Discussion

03.12.2020