The 12th session of the UNESCO/ISEDC Co-sponsored Fellowships Programme for specialists from developing countries and countries in transition, which started on October 1, 2018, at ISEDC, keeps on taking place in Moscow. In the first week of training (October 1-5), the participants of the Programme met the ISEDC experts.
Head of Department of Ecological Development, Dilyara Karimova, gave a lecture on “Sustainable Development: Approach, Limitations, Reality”, in which she presented the main aspects of the concept of sustainable development, as well as the general environmental concepts and basic principles of the environmental protection. At the end of the lecture program, a practical task was proposed to the students.
Grigory Yulkin, Head of Strategic Planning and Partnership Department of the ISEDC, made a presentation about the problems of sustainable development under the circumstances of the climate change. During the lecture, the participants of the Fellowships programme became familiar with the main approaches to estimating anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, managing the carbon footprint of products in the cycle from production to consumption, plunged into the context of the international climate agreements and discussed a number of climate initiatives at the international, national, regional and sectoral levels.
The issues of the effective management of the ecological part of the economy and the demand for ecosystem resources were widely discussed with students. During the lecture, the correlation between the growth of people's welfare and resource intensity (including energy intensity) of the economy was found. This tendency amplifies the relevance of the initiatives set to achieving the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals until 2030 and allowed to stimulate the growth of the global economy and reduce the deficit of biocapacity. Grigory Yulkin clearly demonstrated the possibilities for raising the living standards of people in the developing countries and maintaining the pace of development in the developed countries, which are appearing in the context of the low-carbon paradigm of the global economy.
On October 4-5, 2018, the participants of the 12th session of the UNESCO/ISEDC Co-sponsored Fellowships Programme took part in the events of the International Forum “Russian Energy Week - 2018”. The participation in this event provided an opportunity to become familiar with the development potential of the energy complex of Russia, as well as with corporate and government experience in implementing the projects in the field of energy and energy efficiency.
The second week of the training course (October 15-19) started with the meeting with the Head of the Ecological Faculty of the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Dr. Margarita Redina. She emphasized in her presentation that the development of sustainable energy is a global priority and that the energy security plays the major part in providing of the sustainability of economic systems at different levels and, as a consequence, in the scenarios and predictions of the energy sector development as the key for the development of the world economy. The issues of renewable resources and their redistribution, oil, and gas resources, their distribution in the world and major environmental constraints were discussed at the lecture.
As a next part of the training, the fellows studied in depth the municipal and industrial energy management course, which was given by the ISEDC partners, experts from the UNDP/GEF Project “Building energy efficiency in the North-West of Russia”, Vitaly Bekker and Andrey Dodonov. The main part of this training course was focused on the study of the condition of modern energy-efficient and energy-saving technologies, environmental management systems, existing systems of the urban energy resources management, the experience of implementing the phases of energy management in budgetary institutions and municipalities.
During the practical training, the fellows used their knowledge in making the lists of energy-efficient measures for various institutions and carried out the calculations of the energy-saving effects in case of their successful implementation. In addition, the participants of the 12th session of the Fellowships Program evaluated the economic efficiency of various energy sources and made predictions regarding the resolving of the problems of using the energy-saving technologies.
During the third week of training, a series of lectures with invited experts is planned to be held at ISEDC. Professor Valery Bessel from Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Anna Kurbatova from Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia and Associate Professor, Doctor of Economics Olga Kudryavtseva from Moscow State University will visit ISEDC to meet with and give lectures to the fellows.
The fellows will also attend the International Innovation Forum "Open Innovations", which is held under the auspices of the Government of the Russian Federation. This forum is widely acknowledged as a unique discussion platform focused on the development of the innovative, computer and intellectual technologies.
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