Outstanding quotes from SPIEF 2021: Forum participants on green finance, environmental issues and decarbonization

The research prepared by the experts of the World Economic Forum together with BCG examines the issues of climate change and the opportunities that all companies have to influence the climate issues through actions on decarbonizing global supply chains.

The National Rating Agency presents a study of the gold mining industry in Russia in 2020. The article examines aspects such as investment demand, financial results of Russian gold mining companies, as well as the state of the global gold supply amid restrictions due to measures to counter the spread of COVID-19.

The first meeting of the Arctic Council’s Sustainable Development Working Group (SDWG), chaired by Russia, took place from 26–28 October in a hybrid format in Moscow. The event was hosted by the Roscongress Foundation.

This report by the Ellen Macarthur Foundation outlines a fundamental rethink for plastic packaging and plastics in general; it offers a new systemic approach, aligned with the principles of the circular economy, and provides an action plan to raise the efficiency of the global plastics industry.