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Dmitry Fedorov: I want our jewelry to be displayed at a museum in the future

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Responsible business practices ‘no longer optional’, says WDC President Feriel Zerouki

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James Campbell: Botswana Diamonds optimistic as it enters uncharted territory of using AI for mineral exploration

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The summit on sustainable development will be held in Krasnoyarsk

27 september 2023

The third Sustainable Development Summit "Siberian Perspective" will be held on September 29-30 in Krasnoyarsk at the Bobrovy Log fan park. The main theme of the event will be "Responsible consumption: connecting business and consumers."

This session will be moderated by Andrey Sharonov, General Director of the National Alliance on Social and Environmental Responsibility, Corporate Governance and Sustainable Development. The best practices of leading Russian companies will be shared by Nornickel's Vice President for Sustainable Development and Investor Relations Vladimir Zhukov, representatives of Metalloinvest, Krastsvetmet, United Metallurgical Company, Rosatom, the UN Global Contract National Network Association, National Park "Krasnoyarsk Pillars".

At the "Quality of Life Index in Small and Medium Cities of Russia" session, experts, representatives of municipal and regional authorities, and development institutions will discuss the practical implementation of this methodology.

A separate day of the "Siberian Perspective" will be dedicated to volunteering. During the interactive game, environmental projects of corporate volunteers of Russian Railways, Sberbank, MTS, and Norilsk Nickel will be reviewed. The latest creative developments of Norilsk Nickel will be presented by the director of the company’s social policy department, Irina Zhuikova. Joint projects will be presented by Konstantin Nesterov, director of the Bobrovy Log fan park, and the director of the Krasnoyarsk Pillars national park, Vladimir Shcherbakov. According to tradition, volunteers from leading Russian companies will be engaged in the arrangement of eco-trails of the Krasnoyarsk Pillars.