Ecology & Climate
Summing up the Unified Arctic Cleanup 2026
In Zapolyarny, a WWII-era mine was found during the cleanup; in the Murmansk Region, the youngest volunteer was a one-year-old toddler; and in Norilsk, 480 kg of garbage was collected. The «Unified Arctic Cleanup,» dedicated to post-winter tidying in cities across Russia’s Arctic Zone, was held for the fifth time in 2026. Local cleanups, organized...
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PORA to Support National Project «Environmental Well-being»
Initiatives by the Project Office for Arctic Development (PORA) and the environmental movement «Friends of the Environment» (DOM) have become part of the national-level environmental agenda On May 19, 2026, Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology Alexander Kozlov outlined the key directions of Russia’s environmental policy through 2030 during parliamentary hearings on the implementation...
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The expert center PORA assessed the risks of IMO climate policy for the development of the Transit Transport Corridor at an international legal conference in Saint Petersburg
April 28, 2026 On April 27, 2026, the North-West Institute of Management of RANEPA hosted an international scientific conference «International Legal Problems of the Arctic: History and Modernity,» which brought together leading experts from Russia and Asia-Pacific countries in the fields of legal regulation of maritime commercial shipping, issues of Russian-American relations concerning the delimitation...
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Experts Discuss Climate Change in the Arctic and Preparation for COP31
Climate Change Costs Yakutia 2 Billion Rubles a Year March 14, 2026 At the conference «The Arctic in an Era of Change,» co-organized by PORA and the Northern Forum, a session was held titled «Climate Change in the Arctic. Challenges and Adaptation Measures. A Look Ahead to COP31 (the UN Climate Change Conference).» The moderator...
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Russia Initiates Climate Action Projects in the Arctic
At the Arctic: Present and Future forum, held in St. Petersburg on 9–10 December 2025, Sergey Lysenko, Project Development Head at the PORA Expert Center, presented updated data on climate initiatives implemented in Russia’s Arctic regions.
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