UNN presents a new professional development course at ESG forum
From December 1 to 3, Nizhny Novgorod hosts the All-Russian ESG forum. On the first day of the Forum, the plenary session was attended by Deputy Prime Minister Victoria Abramchenko, Aide to the Russian President Maxim Oreshkin, Plenipotentiary Representative of the Russian President in the Volga Federal District Igor Komarov, and Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region Gleb Nikitin.
Representatives of Lobachevsky University took part in the Carbon Neutrality section. Vladimir Yuvonin, Head of the UNN Centre of Excellence for Carbon Management, presented the new advanced training course “Global Climate Change and the Basics of Carbon Management”. It will start on 5 December 2022.
"We invite to the training not only undergraduate or postgraduate students who are interested in this topic. We plan to teach the carbon documentation to business professionals. On 1 January 2023, regulated organisations whose operations emit greenhouse gases with a mass equivalent of 150 thousand tonnes of carbon dioxide or more per year will have to report. A federal law to this effect is coming into force. According to preliminary data, in Nizhny Novgorod this is half of all enterprises which have production facilities. Today they do not know how to prepare reports and do not even suspect that they have to do it. At the same time, fines for failure to comply with new rules have already been approved," said Vladimir Yuvonin.
He added that the Centre of Excellence for Carbon Management was established at Lobachevsky University in 2022 as part of the "Comfortable Environment" strategic project of the "Priority 2030" programme of strategic academic leadership.
The objective of the ESG forum is to promote the principles of sustainable development in various regions of Russia. The main principles of sustainable development are responsible attitude to the environment, high social responsibility, and high quality of corporate management. Forum participants will discuss problems of ecology, social wellbeing, and cooperation between the state and business.
