A socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of nationwide and international conventions; exhibitions; and business, public, youth, sporting, and cultural events.

The Roscongress Foundation is a socially oriented non-financial development institution and a major organizer of nationwide and international conventions; exhibitions; and business, public, youth, sporting, and cultural events. It was established in pursuance of a decision by the President of the Russian Federation.

The Foundation was established in 2007 with the aim of facilitating the development of Russia’s economic potential, promoting its national interests, and strengthening the country’s image. One of the roles of the Foundation is to comprehensively evaluate, analyse, and cover issues on the Russian and global economic agendas. It also offers administrative services, provides promotional support for business projects and attracting investment, helps foster social entrepreneurship and charitable initiatives.

Each year, the Foundation’s events draw participants from 209 countries and territories, with more than 15,000 media representatives working on-site at Roscongress’ various venues. The Foundation benefits from analytical and professional expertise provided by 5,000 people working in Russia and abroad.

The Foundation works alongside various UN departments and other international organizations, and is building multi-format cooperation with 212 economic partners, including industrialists’ and entrepreneurs’ unions, financial, trade, and business associations from 86 countries worldwide, and 293 Russian public organizations, federal and regional executive and legislative bodies of the Russian Federation.

The Roscongress Foundation has Telegram channels in Russian t.me/Roscongress, English – t.me/RoscongressDirect, Spanish – t.me/RoscongressEsp and Arabic t.me/RosCongressArabic. Official website and Information and Analytical System of the Roscongress Foundation:roscongress.org.

List of sessions
Открытие конгресса
25 May 2023 11:00
Congress opening
Климат: новые вызовы столетия
25 May 2023 11:30
Climate: New Challenges of the Century
Key Topics: • Reducing greenhouse gas emissions — policies and measures; • Adaptation to climate change — finding effective measures and best practices for different sectors of the economy. Issues Discussed: • Can climate change be stopped? • If not, should something be done? • Consequences of climate change — what to do? (adaptation). • The distribution of roles in these processes (state-business-society)
Человек и планета: совместимы ли?
25 May 2023 11:30
Humans and the Planet: Are They Compatible?
Key themes: • Assessment of the necessary management decisions and each person’s lifestyle to minimize health risks • Biological, chemical, and physical threats to humanity and its environment. States building systems to protect the population against epidemics
25 May 2023 11:30
Transition to Digital: How to Make Ecology and IT Friends
Key themes: • The development of modern digital technologies has made it possible to process huge amounts of information, including information that was originally presented in hard copy form. Data can also be obtained data in new ways, e.g., through the remote sensing of the earth using drones. Artificial intelligence often helps in the processing of information. • There are currently 15 types of state environmental monitoring. However, only a few of them allow for direct instrumental measurements. The development of digital environmental monitoring is hampered by: • the unavailability and lack of environmental information, particularly information collected in non-digital form • the insufficient density of surveillance networks • the lack of new ways of obtaining and processing data in legal documents • the lack of domestic production equipment for environmental monitoring • How will digital environmental monitoring develop in Russia? • What best world practices in environmental monitoring can be used in Russia? • What measures need to be taken to produce domestic environmental monitoring equipment? • How should regulations be changed to enhance the range of environmental monitoring data? • What barriers exist for the digitalization of environmental services? • Use of artificial intelligence for biodiversity conservation and environmental protection • Domain ecology: A single platform of services for people and businesses
Вода – главный ресурс будущего
25 May 2023 11:30
Water: The Main Resource of the Future
Key themes: • Water resources are a basic human need; • Water is a factor of modern economy and logistics. International transport corridor «North-South»; • Practice of project management applicable to water bodies; • Influence of recreational infrastructure on the living conditions of the population near water bodies and improvement of its ecological state; • Coastal tourism; • Finance support of water resources utilization complex and projects applicable to water resources; • Promotion of ecological awareness: improving ecological literacy and cultural behavior of water consumption in the society.
Экологический туризм: состояние и перспективы
25 May 2023 11:30
Ecotourism: Current Situation and Prospects
Key themes: • Examples of successful national projects and programmes to develop ecotourism • Ecotourism as an alternative type of economic activities in specially protected natural areas and countries’ experience in developing national legislation and implementing ecotourism projects • Creation of international tourist routes • Design and creation of ecotourism products, services, and routes • Planning, design, and construction of ecotourism infrastructure • Mechanisms and instruments of state support for the development of ecotourism • Interaction with stakeholders to organize tourism in specially protected natural areas (travel agencies, guides, event organizers, educational institutions, etc.)
Сохранение экологии Арктики и Антарктики: новые вызовы и перспективы развития
25 May 2023 14:30
Preserving the Ecology of the Arctic and Antarctic: New Challenges and Development Prospects
Key themes: • Scientific ecological research in the Arctic and Antarctic and the construction of a new wintering facility at the Antarctic station Vostok • Environmental monitoring in the waters of the Northern Sea Route and ensuring the environmental safety of navigation • Creation of a permafrost monitoring system and preventing environmental risks in permafrost degradation • Preventing adverse environmental consequences in the development of Arctic natural resources and the introduction of innovative and eco-friendly technologies • Cleaning up pollution in Arctic territories
Национальные стратегии и приоритеты в сфере охраны окружающей среды
25 May 2023 14:30
National Strategies and Priorities in Environmental Protection
Key issues: • National environmental protection strategies and projects of countries participating in the Congress. Prioritization taking into account new challenges • Harmonization of approaches for implementing the national environmental policy of CIS member states • Sustainable development of mountainous regions
Лес – легкие планеты
25 May 2023 14:30
Forests: The Lungs of the Planet
Forest fires • Monitoring, forecasting, and preventing fires • Eliminating forest fires (technologies, collaboration of forces, and jurisdictions) • Forecasts and trends in the forest fire situation around the world taking into account climate change, infrastructure development, and other factors • Approaches to assessing damage from forest fires Reforestation and combating desertification and deforestation • Reforestation, afforestation, and adapting forestry to climate change • Cultivation of planting material • Assessment of reforestation efficiency and increasing carbon sequestration by forests • Biodiversity conservation and food security issues Assessment of forest resources • Global Assessment of Forest Resources (GAFR 2025), global trends, changes in key indicators, and new approaches to forest inventory based on remote sensing data • The current state of forest resources and achieving the global goals of mankind — SDGs, UNFCCC, and biodiversity conservation • Information resources about forests: The basis for sustainable management, decision-making, and national and international reporting on forests Digitalization of forestry, the Forestry Unified State Automated Information System, and the Forestry Federal State Information System • Prospects for the development of a forestry information system • International experience in monitoring timber supply chains and the regulation of turnover, exports, and imports • Legitimacy of the origin of wood • Prospects for the use of the Forestry Unified State Automated Information System in the Eurasian Economic Union
Экономика замкнутого цикла: вечный двигатель в мире ресурсов
25 May 2023 14:30
Circular Economy: The Perpetual Motion Machine in the World of Resources
Key themes: • Caring for the environment is now becoming our daily habit. And what’s important is that an enormous amount of resources can be recycled. State support facilitates this in many ways. In 2022, the Circular Economy federal project was launched and the Russian government’s environmental block worked to change laws to support waste recycling. Industry programmes have also been developed. They will make it easier to involve recycled resources in the construction of housing and roads, industry, agriculture, and other industries. • One of the most important goals of the circular economy is to minimize waste generation and reduce the amount of waste that cannot be recycled or is difficult to recycle. This is also crucial to protect the oceans from plastic pollution. More than eight million tonnes of plastic are deposited in the ocean every year. • What are the main focuses of the state policy to develop a circular economy in Russia? • What best world practices can Russia use to transition to a circular economy? • What anti-crisis measures should be taken to ensure industry growth in the new realities? • What state support measures are needed to accelerate the development of a separate waste collection system? • What measures should be taken to provide industry with technologies and components as part of import substitution? • The problem of microplastics in the ocean: are solutions possible at the legislative level?
Органическое производство: возможности, перспективы и международное сотрудничество
25 May 2023 14:30
Organic Production: Opportunities, Prospects, and International Cooperation
Key themes: • Encouraging achievements in the production and sale of organic products • Increasing consumer awareness of proper nutrition • Dissemination of best organic production practices • Development of the organic products market • Forming healthy lifestyle habits • Environmental protection and the introduction of sustainable development principles • International cooperation
Объединение усилий государства и бизнеса как залог экологического благополучия
26 May 2023 09:00
Uniting the Efforts of the State and Business to Guarantee Environmental Wellbeing
Key themes: • Presentation of best practices for initiatives on sustainable development, ecology, and the development of green technologies • Promotion of an international dialogue on ways to achieve environmental well-being taking into account the challenges of our time Main point: • Global challenges are forcing national governments and businesses to make serious efforts to ensure the current agenda includes measures to improve people’s quality of life, reduce the negative impact of economic and other activities on the environment, and preserve unique natural and biological diversity. Adhering to the principles of sustainable development and the green economy amidst pressure from sanctions and economic restrictions is a serious challenge for governments and businesses. The roundtable will feature presentations of Russia’s ambitious environmental projects, business initiatives in sustainable development, and ways to develop state policy to stimulate business to take a responsible approach towards the environment. Russian businesses have traditionally been the driving force behind green projects on the domestic and foreign markets and are introducing solutions that aim to increase the sustainability of the economy and develop a circular economy. Key discussion issues: • Synergistic effect from the joint projects of businesses and the state: how to plan, evaluate, and apply them • State policy in ecology: the priorities remain the same • New approaches to regional development: green energy generation territories and the advanced development of eco-technologies • Development of infrastructure to handle high-risk waste: practices of CIS countries • Successful green business projects: best practices • Scientific developments to eliminate manmade pollution and ensure environmental safety: conceptual approaches
Ускользающий мир: возвращение долгов природе
26 May 2023 09:00
The Elusive World: Paying Back Our Debt to Nature
Key themes: • Promising areas of international cooperation to conserve biological diversity, the exchange of best practices, and national biodiversity conservation strategies • Examples of successful national biodiversity conservation projects and programmes • The role of science in biological diversity conservation, including rare and endangered species • Business for nature: examples of successful practices • The role of public institutions in biological diversity conservation • International cooperation in biological diversity conservation
Устойчивое развитие, как новая модель экономического развития регионов России
26 May 2023 09:00
Sustainable Development as a New Model for the Economic Development of Russia’s Regions
Key themes: • Sustainable development as a new approach to a diversified economy • Mechanisms to increase companies’ contribution to the socioeconomic and environmental development of the regions where they operate • Responsible business support system • Non-financial business reporting and how to attract SMEs • Sustainability in heavy industry • Prospects for the development of the Green Tech market • Prospects for the development of electric transport and charging infrastructure in the Russian regions • Green entrepreneurship and opportunities for growth and development • International experience in the development and introduction of green economy principles, measures, and mechanisms
Contacts
St. Petersburg, Russia