RAS Scientific Council and MFA Diplomatic Academy

Meeting of the RAS Scientific Council “The UN Global Compact and Its Effectiveness for Participating Countries in Achieving the SDGs”, Moscow. Paper: “The SDGs have not stood the test of time. A different development paradigm is needed”.

International inter-university conference “AI, the Green Economy and the UN SDGs: Challenges and Solutions”, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Moscow. Paper: “Towards an understanding of the stability of life in a new era as a factor of international integration”. His addresses at the Diplomatic Academy also covered water diplomacy and the role of Eurasia's water and forests in international cooperation.

Forum “Transition to Sustainable Development as a Factor of International Integration” (TsSKP), Moscow. Paper: “A new era, a new approach to sustainable development”.

Forum “Sustainable Development: the Central Asian Dimension” (TsSKP), Saint Petersburg. Paper: “On the conceptual basis of the civilizational project ‘Greater Eurasia’”.

Conference “Linking the Greater Eurasian Partnership and the Belt and Road Initiative: Arctic Strategies, Programmes, Projects”, Saint Petersburg. Dr Startsev spoke for the working group “Environmental Safety and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources” of the Ministry of Natural Resources within the State Commission for Arctic Development, with the paper “The ecological belt of the Greater Eurasian Waterway: the Arctic vector of development”.

In the paper, the shared values of the Greater Eurasian Partnership are nature, above all the intact, climate-forming ecosystems of the Russian Arctic, culture, and a people ready to work for the common good; the natural biotic mechanism that governs the environment and climate cannot be reproduced by human hands.

Round table “Current Issues of Ecology and Traditional Nature Use in Siberia and the Far East”, Yakutsk. Paper: “The role of Russia's natural forests in the problem of climate change”.