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News. may 2011

The Sixth Annual Conference on Sustainable Development, Rational Nature Use and Health Technologies in Tula

For the sixth time this traditional event was held in Tula by the local regional branch of the Environmental Policy and Culture Center, a national NGO. The conference was attended by environmental specialists from neighboring regions and abroad, who came here to discuss topical issues, share experience and seek joint solutions to the complex situation that has lately taken shape not only in separate regions of Russia, but in the entire country.

This year the conference lasted from May 22 through May 29 and it was organized in a new format, in three locations: in Tula on May 23-24; in Moscow on May 25; and in St.Petersburg on May 26-27. Though these phases of the conference were devoted to different subjects (conservation, waste management and public and environmental health), all three were united by the concept of sustainable development.

Experts from the Fund for Sustainable Development (FSD), Ruslan Butovsky and Elena Milanova, took part in the Tula phase of the conference, at which they made presentations about FSD’s projects on community development and local sustainable development initiatives as a response to global threats. The 50 participants in the conference (government officials and representatives of the business community, civil society, science and culture) included representatives from the United States, Ukraine and Belarus.

The president of the Tula Chamber of Industry Yuri Agaponov spoke at the opening of the conference along with the head of the conference organizing committee and head of the Environmental Policy and Culture Center Mikhail Budenkov. The participants also watched a videotaped welcoming by Victor Danilov-Danilyan, director of the Institute of Water Problems at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The materials of the conference will be published in the special issue of the interregional newspaper Ecology and Culture; collected papers will be out; and video presentations will be produced.