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 208 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 180 economic partners, including industrialists’ and entrepreneurs’ unions, financial, trade, and business associations from 81 countries worldwide, and 186 Russian public organizations, federal and legislative agencies, and federal subjects.

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.

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23.01.2018

Harnessing the Fourth Industrial Revolution for Life on Land

Technological development in our days has reached unprecedented scale and speed. Just one of today’s standard tablet devices possesses the equivalent processing power of over 5,000 desktop computers from the mid-1980s. Storing 1GB of data in 1997 would have cost more than $10,000 a year; today it costs approximately $0.03. Unprecedented progress has been made in other areas of science and technology. The World Economic Forum has termed this period and its consequences on society as the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

The economic activity of a man, which began to grow fast the mid-20th century, had a significant impact on the environment. Deforestation, air pollution, extinction of various animal species, as well as other negative processes still continue. Moreover, due to the sharp increase in the world population and growth of consuming capacity, the trends mentioned above only accelerated. For example, the loss of tree cover — in the area about the size of New Zealand — in 2016 was 51% higher than in 2015.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is not only transforming social networks, scientific research and whole industries, it is also radically reshaping biological and material science innovations. There are technologies that can meet needs of the population, reducing, at the same time, the burden on the environment. As a result, new opportunities appear to solve environmental problems.

The main purpose of this Report is to demonstrate the potential of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and, thereby, to stimulate further development in this field in order to protect the environment.

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