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ENVIRONMENTAL FRAMEWORK OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM
Fifth NevskyInternational Ecological Congress
17–18May 2012 / St. PetersburgTavricheskiyPalace
17May, Thursday
Arrival and accommodation of participants in St Petersburg hotels
10.00–18.00 / Registration
Congress side events
Dedicated show-room displays:
10.00–15.00 / “Innovation-land: conservation of resources and protection of the environment” (Ekaterininskiy Hall)
10.00–15.00 / Road show: region of Orenburg, Russia(Ekaterininskiy Hall)
10.00–18.00 / Green cars expo (parking lot of the TavricheskiyPalace)
15:00–15:35 / Tree-planting event in theTavricheskiyGarden to commemorate the Nevsky Ecological Congress
15:00–16:30 / VELO ECO bike ride (MourinskiyPark)
18.00 / Meeting of the Steering Committee
Drafting of the outcome resolution
18May, Friday
7.30–9.20 / Registration
9.10–9.30 / Opening ceremony of the dedicated show-room display “Innovation-land: conservation of resources and protection of the environment”and “Roadshow Orenburg”(Ekaterininskiy Hall)
9.30–11.30 / Opening of the Congress(DoumskiyHall)
Plenary session
Welcoming address of the President of the Russian FederationVladimir PUTIN
Welcoming address of the Prime Minister of the Russian FederationDmitriy MEDVEDEV
Statement by the Head ofSteering Committee, Chairperson of the IPA CIS Council, Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Valentina MATVIYENKO
Interventions by the participants (limit 5 min)
Governor of St PetersburgGeorgiy POLTAVCHENKO
Acting Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment of the Russian FederationYuriy TROUTNEV
Chair IPA CIS Permanent Commission on Agrarian Policy, Natural Resources and Ecology, Chair, Commission on the Environment and Climate Change, Parliament of the Republic of Moldova Violeta IVANOV
9.50-9.55 / Live broadcast of the All-Russia Environmental Class from the VodokanalResourceCenter “Universe of H2O”
Interventions by the participants (limit 5 min), resumed
President, Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of EuropeKeith WHITMORE
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian FederationGennadiy GATILOV
Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Kenya, Hon. Kennet MARENDE
10.20-10.25 / Live video-conference of the All-Russia Environmental Class from the public school 117, Kazan
Interventions by the participants (limit 5 min), resumed
Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment of BelarusVladimir TSALKO
Director of UNIDO Environmental Management Branch, United Nations Industrial Development Organization Heinz LEUENBERGER
State Secretary, Deputy Minister of Economic Development Igor MANYLOV
Governor of the Orenburg oblast Yuriy BERG
Live video-conference of the All-Russia Environmental Class from Eco-bio educational center for children, Belgorod
Deputy Minister of the Environment, Finland Hannele POKKA
Senior Vice President, Russian Railways Co Valentin GAPANOVICH
Head, Federal Consumer Protection and Human Welfare Service, Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian FederationGennadiy ONISCHENKO
TV anchor, producer of “Health” and “Healthy Lifestyle” TV programs YelenaMALYSHEVA
11.30–12.00 / Recess
12.00-13.30 / Plenary session resumed
Interventions by the participants (limit 5 min)
Director, UNPF Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central AsiaThea FIERENS
Deputy Minister for Emergency Response and Civil Defense, Russian FederationAleksandr CHUPRIYAN
Chairman of State Douma Committee on Natural Resources and Environment Vladimir KASHIN
Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Georgiy KALAMANOV
Chief, Federal Water Resource Management Agency at the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment,Russian Federation Marina SELIVESTROVA
President of the Board of Trustees, the Baikal Foundation Mikhail SLIPENCHUK
Executive Secretary, Ministry of the Environment, the Republic of Kazakhstan Anatoliy DERNOVOY
Chief, Federal Meteorological and Environment Monitoring Service, Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment , Russian Federation Aleksandr FROLOV
Director General, Russian Energy Agency, Ministry if Energy,Russian Federation Timour IVANOV
Board Member, Russian Conservation Society Natalia PESHKOVA
13.30–14.30 / Lunch
13.30-14.30 / Walk through the ceremonial halls of the TavricheskiyPalace (meeting place in the Kupolniy Hall)
14.30–17.30 / Roundtables
Roundtable 1 “Resource conservation-based modernization: environmental agenda of economic growth”
(Hall 9)
Moderators:
– / Chairman, Committee on Economic Policy, Federation CouncilAndrey MOLCHANOV
– / Head,Federal Environmental Management Service, Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment of the Russian FederationVladimir KIRILLOV
DG Russian Energy Agency Timour IVANOV
Roundtable 2
“International Legal Framework of Environmental Security for Sustainable Development”
(the Reading Room)
Moderators:
– / First Deputy Chairman,Committee on Agriculture and Environmental Management, member of the IPA CIS Permanent Commission on Agriculture, Resource Management and the EnvironmentNikolay CHOURKIN
– / Director, St Petersburg Environmental ResearchCenter, RussianAcademy of Sciences Vladimir DONCHENKO
Chair, Committee on Natural Resourse Management and Conservation, Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Sergey ALEKSEYEV
Roundtable 3“LivingGreen”
(Doumskiy Hall)
Moderator:
– / Member, Committee on the Constitutional Law,Legal and Judicial Affairs and the Promotion of Civil Society, Federation CouncilYevgeniy TARLO
Roundtable 4 “Environmental Policies and the Civil Society”
(Hall 1)
Moderator:
– / First Deputy Chairman, Committee on the Constitutional Law, Legal and Judicial Affairs and the Promotion of Civil SocietyBoris SHPIGEL
– / Deputy Chairman,Committee on Agriculture and Environmental Management, Konstatntin TSYBKO
Roundtable 5
“Education and Science in Search of Environmental Solutions”
(Hall 11)
Moderator:
– / First Deputy Chairman, Committee on Science, Education, Culture and Information Policy, Federation Council Yuriy SOLONIN
Rector, Russian Meteorological University Lev KARLIN
First-vice-rector, RussianUniversity of Construction Technologies and Research Oleg YEGORYCHEV
Roundtable 6
“IntegratedManagementofWaterSupply. Water Use and Water Quality” (location C.C. Vodokanal – St Petersburg. Shpalernaya, 56)
Moderators:
– / Director General, C.C. Vodokanal – St PetersburgFeliks KARMAZINOV
– / Chief, Water Management Section, Natural Resource Management Sector, UNIDO Igor VOLODIN
Chief, Sanitation Dept, Federal Consumer Protection and Human Welfare Service, Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian FederationOlga AKSIONOVA
Roundtable 7
“Environment and Public Health in the CIS ”
(Hall 6)
Moderators:
– / First Deputy Chair, Committee on Social Policy, Federation Council Larissa PONOMAREVA
– / Head, Federal Consumer Protection and Human Welfare Service, Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian FederationGennadiy ONISCHENKO
Roundtable 8
“Cultural and Aesthetic Value of the Environment” (location: Stiglitz StPetersburgIndustrialDesignAcademy. Solianoy per. 13)
Moderators:
First Deputy Chair, Committee on Science, Education, Culture and Information Policies, Member, IPA CIS Permanent Commission on Culture, Information, Tourism and Sport Viktor LOPATNIKOV
Rector, StiglitzSt PetersburgIndustrialDesignAcademy Aleksandr PALMIN
Roundtable 9
Expansion of Protected Landscapes in the Russian Federation till 2020 (Hall 11)
Moderator:
– / Deputy Chief, Dept of Public Policies and Regulatory Framework for the Protection of the Environment, Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment Vsevolod STEPANICKIY
– / Roundtable 10
Post-Olympic Environmental Legacy
Moderator:
Advisor, Chief, Operational HQ for the 2014 winter Olympic Games and Paralympics in SochiMurad KERIMOV
14:30–17:30 / Second Russia-Kenya business forumParliamentaryCenter, Shpalernaya, 53
17.30–17.45 / Recess
17.45–18.45 / Final plenary session (Hall 1)
Reportsbyroundtable moderators
Adoption of the outcome resolution
Closing ceremony
19.30 / Cultural program