Valdai Club

Hamdan Khan

Kashif Hasan Khan

Yuri Kofner

Alexey Khlebnikov

Václav Klaus

Anton Khlopkov

Anton Kozlov

Evgeny Kuznetsov

Pavel Kandel

Evgeny Kuznetsov

Russian Federation

Futurist, Co-founder of Digital Evolution Ventures, Evand Singularity University Ambassador.

Materials

Mars as the Horizon, the Moon as the Foundation

Evgeny Kuznetsov, CEO of Orbita Capital Partners, highlights the shifting purpose of space exploration—what once was a domain of prestige competition and symbolic one-upmanship now constitutes a lucrative industrial-tech resource base, with promises of ample reward for those who dare to set out in pursuit of mastery over it. Two celestial bodies—Mars and the Moon—are becoming central to this emerging economic landscape.

Global Green Transformation: How Will the World Change?

The number of natural disasters and industrial accidents caused by climate change is steadily on the rise. However, global climate policy remains plagued by differences. In 2019, during the 25th Conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the countries were unable to agree on Article 6, which describes, among other things, the financial mechanisms underlying the Paris Agreement.