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.

Boris Porfiriev

Boris Porfiriev

Scientific Director, Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Biography
Dr. Sc. (economics), Professor, Full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Dr. Porfiriev was born in 1955 in Moscow. The 1977 cum laude graduate of the Moscow State University. Since that time has been working in the institutes of the former USSR (now Russian) Academy of Sciences, or RAS; from 2010 to currently in the RAS Institute for Economic Forecasting. Since 2018 he is the Director of the Institute and the head of Laboratory for analysis and forecasting of the natural and technological risks to economic development.

Dr. Porfiriev received PhD (1981) and Doctor of Science (1990) both in economics, and Professor (management) in 1996. Elected the RAS Corresponding member in 2011 and the RAS Full member in 2016.

Research and teaching areas include: analysis, forecasting and policy decision making in crisis situations, economics and management of natural and technological hazards, including those posed by climate change. In the areas above he has been writing extensively both in Russia and abroad making over 300 contributions including some 80 books and papers published in the peer-reviewed international journals and by the US, European, Australian and China publishers.

Dr. Porfiriev is a member of the RAS Presidium, the RAS Research Council on Environmental Issues, Council of Experts of the EMERCOM of Russia. In 2002-2006 he was elected and served a vice-president and in 2011-2015 the first vice-president of the International Research Committee for Disasters of the International Sociological Association. He is a laureate of the 2005 EMERCOM research and technological award and the 2009 E. Varga RAS award for outstanding research on the world economy issues (for the monograph “Economics of Climate Change”. Moscow, 2008).
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16.06.2022
SPIEF 2022
Sustainable Development for Future Generations: On the Brink of Achieving Goals
The role of science, scientific expertise, the role of experts is of paramount importance. We’re talking about properly assessing the situation - we have to understand exactly what is happening to the environment; we have to understand exactly what is happening with emissions of methane and carbon dioxide
04.06.2021
SPIEF 2021
Who Will Pay for Today’s Environmental Challenges?
If we indeed are talking climate, then what matters for climate is accumulated greenhouse gas emissions. This is a matter of principled importance. Not achieving the notorious zero, but accumulated emissions. In this respect, the goals set by the President are particularly relevant, and with such goal-setting Russia can reach this objective by implementing a series of technological steps that we have also discussed, provided, of course, there is sufficient investment and a good investment programme. This is that very technological re-equipment and that very structural modernization we need
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