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.

Nikolay Krivozertsev

Nikolay Krivozertsev

General Director, EcoStandard Group; Head of the Expert Center for ESG Transformation, All-Russian Public Organization "Business Russia"
Quotes
05.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
A Model for Raising Investment: Focusing on ESG
The most important thing is that ESG does not become some kind of a fashionable trend that everyone talks about and then forgets all about it. We need to create a unified methodology to evaluate and compare these ESG ratings
05.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
A Model for Raising Investment: Focusing on ESG
The number one task in our country is to create a transparent system for evaluating large companies, then, probably, for medium-sized businesses, large infrastructure facilities, so that they are really transparent. This way any investor, any citizen, or any supervisory authority understands that they are operating responsibly
05.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
A Model for Raising Investment: Focusing on ESG
There is a huge number of indicators behind ESG: emissions, discharges, special assessment of working conditions, production control, social programmes, CSR. This is a huge field for lobbying, protectionism, basically, any manupulations involving these indicators,
05.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
A Model for Raising Investment: Focusing on ESG
My experience shows that environmental issues, social responsibility issues, labour safety issues always go all the way to the level of decision making. If it comes from the owner or from the top manager, it works. If it goes down to the level of the department for sustainable development or environmental protection, it does not matter what it is called — this is bureaucracy, these are just papers, nothing more than reports for the supervising authority
11.09.2018
EEF 2018
Environment and innovation. Preserving the natural ecosystems of the Russian Far East
Social development, corporate social development, sustainable social development nowadays, especially in our country, are integral to the issues of environmental safety, environmental protection, the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the society