Data and Software Events Research Seminars

ESG consulting: relevance of the agenda, analytics and prospects

International Scientific Seminar

Organizer: Department of Landscape Design and Sustainable Ecosystems, Smart Urban Nature research center, Agrarian and Technological Institute of RUDN University

Area: Science, Education, International cooperation

Subarea: Ecology and nature management

Format: Seminar

Type: International

Title: «ESG consulting: relevance of the agenda, analytics and prospects»

Date: November 27, 2024 

Location: Microsoft Teams

Contact person:  Babich Gleb Olegovich, 1142230303@rudn.ru

The links to the Seminar: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MjI5M2RmMWQtYmVkYi00OGJhLWFhNTEtYTljZDAxOWQ1ZGI0%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%222ae95c20-c675-4c48-88d3-f276b762bf52%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%227c0dd40f-506b-4145-9d05-c29980e024d0%22%7d 

 

About the event:

On November 27, 2024 the Research center «Smart technologies for sustainable development of the urban environment in the global change» Agrarian and Technological Institute RUDN University organizes an international scientific seminar «ESG consulting: relevance of the agenda, analytics and prospects». The event will be held on the Microsoft Teams platform. The working language is Russian.

ESG (E – environment, ecology; S – social, social policy; G – governance, corporate governance) is a set of principles for doing business that correspond to the general philosophy of sustainable development. Speakers will present an overview of the transformation of the sustainable development concept into the concept of ESG and social responsibility, problems and prospects for disclosing non-financial reporting, taking into account changes in international requirements.

In 2018, the president signed a decree “On the national goals and strategic objectives of the development of the Russian Federation for the period until 2024.” In 2021, the government issued a decree “On approval of the goals and main directions of sustainable (including green) development of the Russian Federation” and a decree “On approval of criteria for sustainable (including green) development projects in Russia and requirements for the verification system of financing instruments for sustainable development in the Russian Federation.”” Thus, these three letters E, S and G largely determine the development vector of companies, cities and regions. How exactly this happens in practice will be discussed at the seminar.

 

Event program:

17.30 – 18.00

«Review of the social component application within the framework of ESG, prospects in the Russia, implemented cases»

Anna Romachevskaya, senior consultant at Ensor Management Consultants

18.00 – 18.30

«Assessment of water services companies based on ESG metrics. Analytical research with INFRAGRIN»

Galina Elagina, laboratory assistant SunLab, ATI, RUDN University, certified Green Project Manager, Assessor of GPM Awards Russia 2024

18.30– 19.30

Discussion

Data and Software Ecosystem Services Events Research Seminars

Monitoring, modeling and managing of urban soil and green infrastructure (3MUGIS)

International Scientific Seminar

Organizer: Department of Landscape Design and Sustainable Ecosystems, Smart Urban Nature research center, Agrarian and Technological Institute of RUDN University

Area: Science, Education, International cooperation

Subarea: Ecology and nature management

Format: Seminar

Type: International

Title: «Urban soils – a challenge for geophysics: geophysical study on soils at the RUDN campus»

Date: July 1-6, 2024 

Location: RUDN Univerity 

About the event:
From July 1 to July 6, 2024, the scientific center “ Smart Urban Nature research center” ATI RUDN University organized an international scientific seminar “Monitoring, modeling and management of urban soils and green
infrastructure.”. The event was held in a mixed format. Working language – Russian, English.

The international scientific seminar was devoted to the study of environmental, anthropogenic, social and other processes of urbanization and their impact on soil functions. Participants learned about new approaches in environmental monitoring and modeling of urban ecosystems, studied the biochemistry of urban soils and plantings, examined issues of ecosystem services and urban climate, and also became acquainted with technical innovations in studying the urban soundscape.

Event program:
July 1, 2024
16.00 – 16.30
Gorbov Sergey, SFU
«Sustainable development and functionality of urban lawns»

16.30 – 17.00
Klimanova Oksana, MSU
«Green-blue infrastructures in urban planning: a landscape scientist perspective»
Discussion
July 2, 2024

16.00 – 16.30
Zarov Evgeniy, Yugra State University
«Monitoring and modeling C balance in natural and anthropogenic ecosystems»

16.30 – 17.00
Ushakova Natalia, Department of Regional Development of the Russian Ecological Society
«Soil quality standardization»
Discussion

July 3, 2024 16.00 – 16.30
Zenkova Irina, Institute of Problems of Industrial Ecology of the North of the Russian Academy of Sciences
«Soil macrofauna of urban ecosystems»

16.30 – 17.00
Valentini Riccardo (UNITUS, RUDN)
«Real-time monitoring of ecosystem services provided by urban green infrastructure»
Discussion July 4, 2024 16.00 – 16.30
Kapelkina Ludmila, St. Petersburg Center for Environmental Safety of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
«Ecological and geochemical assessment of gardens and parks of St. Petersburg»

16.30 – 17.00
Сhernokulsky Aleksander, Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics «Climate change risks, mitigation and adaptation in urban perspective»
Discussion

July 5, 2024
16.00 – 16.30
Ignatieva Maria, The University of Western Australia «Low impact design and biodiversity»

16.30 – 17.00
Dushkova Diana, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
«Not simply green: nature-based solutions as a concept and practical approach to building resilient and sustainable future»

Discussion

July 6, 2024

16.00 – 16.30
Kuzyakov Yakov, Georg-August University Goettingen/ RUDN «Soil capacity for C sequestration»

Discussion

 

Data and Software Research Seminars

A tremendous green roof or biodiversity museum? First outcomes from soil survey in Zaryadye park

International Scientific Seminar

 

 

On March 13, 2024 the Research center «Smart technologies for sustainable development of the urban environment in the global change» Agrarian and Technological Institute RUDN University organizes an international scientific seminar «A tremendous green roof or biodiversity museum? First outcomes from soil survey in Zaryadye park». The event will be held offline in room 423 ATI RUDN. The working language is Russian.

During the seminar first results of soil survey for different landscape zones of Zaryadye park will be presented.

 

Event program:

 

17.30 – 18.00

«Spatial heterogeneity and temporal dynamics of soil constructions’ agrochemical properties in Zaryadye park»

Vasenev V. I., Ph.D, Agrarian and Technological Institute RUDN,

 

18.00– 18.30

«Structure and functional activity of soil microbial communities in landscape zones of Zaryadye park (2-year monitoring results»

Kozlova E.V. Ph.D., Agrarian and Technological Institute RUDN

 

Discussion

Climate Data and Software Ecosystem Services Ecosystems Green Infrastructure Science Soils

SUN Lab presented the results of the third year of the SUN project

SUN Lab presented the results of the third year of the project “Smart technologies to monitor, model and evaluate ecosystem services provided by urban green infrastructure and soils to support decision making in sustainable city development under global changes”, supported by a Russian Science Foundation (RSF).

Research in the third year of the project was focused on 3 main objectives:

  1. monitoring of ecosystem services of urban green infrastructure based on the Smart Urban Nature network;
  2. interpretation of monitoring data for ecosystem services for various target groups and practical tasks;
  3. application of the results of monitoring and modeling ecosystem services to support decision-making in the field of sustainable development of the urban environment.
Collaboration Data and Software Ecosystems Events Research Seminars

Smart Urban Nature portal concept: in search of ideas and solutions

Last Saturday, the SUN Lab team held the first strategy session in the format of a team brainstorming session.

We discussed the concept of the Smart Urban Nature portal. This is a portal that will allow us to collect, analyze, deliver and present information about the state of urban ecosystems. Such a multifunctional open-access platform, in our opinion, will be a useful tool for different categories of users. During our session we tried to identifine these categories.

Data and Software Ecosystems Green Infrastructure

SUN Lab celebrates the International Day of Forests by setting up TreeTalkers in Rostov-on-Don

When we drink a glass of water, write in a notebook, take medicine for a fever or build a house, we do not always make the connection with forests. And yet, these and many other aspects of our lives are linked to forests in one way or another.

Forest sustainable management and their use of resources are key to combating climate change, and to contributing to the prosperity and well-being of current and future generations. Forests also play a crucial role in poverty alleviation and in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Yet despite all of these priceless ecological, economic, social and health benefits, global deforestation continues at an alarming rate.

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International Scientific Seminar “Monitoring of Urban Green Infrastructure”

SUN Lab of RUDN University invites to the international scientific seminar “Monitoring of urban green infrastructure”, which will be held online on the Microsoft Teams platform on September 30. The meeting starts at 15:30 Moscow time. The working language is English.

The seminar will focus on several issues in the field of monitoring of urban green infrastructure using IoT technologies. Experts and participants will discuss such topics as express methods for assessing the physiological state of green infrastructure, the influence of environmental factors on the state of plants, timely diagnosis of plant diseases and the development of methods for plant protection.

Collaboration Data and Software Ecosystem Services Ecosystems Green Infrastructure Science

SUN Lab scientists have published the first results of the Tree assessment on Bolotnaya Square (Moscow)

Paper IoT Monitoring of Urban Tree Ecosystem Services: Possibilities and Challenges” was published in the Special Issue Assessing, Valuing and Mapping Ecosystem Services of Forests journal and describes an opportunity of applying IoT technology not only to measure tree functionality through fluxes of water and carbon, but also to establish a smart urban green infrastructure operational system for management.

The paper presents results of a research project developed by SUN Lab scientists (RUDN University), in cooperation with researchers from University of Palermo, University of Tuscia, Campania University “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Research and Innovation Centre, Timiryazev Russian State Agrarian University with the support of the Russian Science Foundation (RSF).

Climate Collaboration Data and Software Ecosystem Services Ecosystems Events Green Infrastructure Science Soils

The SUN lab team summed up the results of the one-year work

On June 24, 2020, the annual Board meeting of the Smart Urban Nature Lab was held. The meeting took its place online and was devoted to a discussion of the results of the laboratory’s work. The Board meeting gathered all the lab’s scientists and experts headed by Riccardo Valentini as well as invited international colleagues and external experts from France, Italy, Germany and Russia.

In more details scientists discussed the current SUN project “Smart technologies to monitor, model and evaluate ecosystem services provided by urban green infrastructure and soils to support decision making in sustainable city development under global changes” which was financed by Russian Science Foundation and started in May 2019.

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