Born in 1978 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. MA in Economics from the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance. More than 10 years professional experience of working with Russian and international media. Reuters Foundation fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford University (2006). Participant of the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) at the University of California, Berkeley (2012). Since 2006 – project manager with the German-Russian Exchange (www.austausch.org), head of the German-Russian Office of Environmental Information (www.rnei.de). Since 2008 is an observer of the UN Climate negotiation process (UNFCCC). Teaches at the Faculty of Journalism, St.Petersburg State University http://eng.jf.spbu.ru/, while at the same time writing a Ph. D. thesis on environmental journalism.
What's holding Russia back from ratifying the Paris climate agreement?
Sep 27, 2016 17:23 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that his country will ratify the Paris climate agreement in October, a significant boost in the campaign to have the agreement become legally binding by the end of the...
IPCC chair Hoesung Lee: we can meet 2°C global warming target if we act fast
Sep 26, 2016 08:31 am UTC| Nature
Hoesung Lee was elected chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just one month before the landmark Paris climate talks of 2015. The agreement that emerged from that meeting committed the worlds...
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