July 5. Urban Health Hall. 14:20 - 15:20
Panel discussion
Pollution factors. Practices reducing environmental risks
- What are the consequences of such factors as noise and atmospheric pollution, extreme temperatures on the health of residents?
- What solutions are there to regulate the microclimate of a large city?
- How can the adverse impacts of climate change on the physical condition of residents be decreased?
- How should public services respond to extreme temperature fluctuations?
- What measures can reduce air and water pollution?
Moderator
Speakers
Presentations
In 1989, Anton Kulbachevsky graduated the M. V. Frunze Higher Naval School with honours. In 2013, he received a second diploma fr om the Russian Presidential Academy of State Administration, wh ere he studied public administration with a concentration in ecology and environmental management. Civilian rank: Class-3 State Councillor of the Russian Federation, Class-1 active State Councillor of Moscow.
In 2010, Anton was appointed head of Moscow Department for Environmental Management and Protection.
Awards: Honored Worker of Nature Conservation (from the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment), Outstanding Worker of Nature Conservation (Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment), badge of honour "For Distinction in Service" (Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment), official gratitude from the Mayor of Moscow, medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" of the Second Degree.
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Irina May is the member of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, International Society for Exposition Studies. Irina's scientific and practical interests include the development and implementation of a methodological approach to evaluating the impacts of chemical and physical factors on public health including the specifics of the territory, assessing the risks to public health, spatio-temporal methods of sanitary and hygienic analysis, sociological research, product safety.
Irina May participated in environmental spatial analysis for a number of Russian territories with poor environmental conditions, developing programmes of biomedical rehabilitation for the public, creating recommendations for preparing a site plan for the city of Perm.
Irina May is member of an expert group of international projects such as Technical Assistance for the CIS and Supplemental Environmental Programme, as an auditor for environmental certification, and also a member of regional working group for developing regulations for the permitted overall impact on the environment.
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PhD in economics, Anne was a consultant for over 25 years on sustainable development, especially energy policy, and climate change both in France and abroad. Anne is also associate professor in public management.
Since 2011, Anne is the executive director of APC, nonprofit and multi-partner organization of 90 members, created on behalf of the city of Paris to implement Paris Climate strategy. APC is working closely with its members by focusing on agile working methods and proximity to all the stakeholders of the ecological transition. By promoting dialogue and debate around these major issues, APC brings stakeholders together in an alliance that aims at achieving the energy transition of Paris and combating climate change.
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Boris Revich is an author of over 250 publications, a textbook entitled "Environmental Epidemiology", co-author of a textbook entitled "Human Ecology", author of 8 monographs, including "Climate change and health: estimates, indicators, forecasts" (2019), "Living in a large city: results of interdisciplinary research" (2018), "Dioxins in Russia" and other books.
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Marco Martuzzi is an epidemiologist with experience in environmental and occupational studies. He worked at the Italian Institute of Health, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the Imperial College School of Medicine (UK), the WHO International Agency for Research on Cancer (Lyon), and over the last twenty years at the WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, currently based in Bonn, Germany. He obtained a PhD in community medicine from the University of London, in 1996. His current work is concerned with the health impact of several environmental risk factors and health determinants. He has a special interest in approaches for supporting policies in environmental health and other sectors, suitable for WHO Member States in their decision making processes on health related matters.
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Esa Nikunen's work involves Environment Protection, Environmental Health, and Food & Veterinary Safety.
Esa worked previously as a Director in the Finnish Safety and Chemicals Agency where he was responsible for Chemicals Control. Before he worked 20 years in different leading roles in the Finnish Environment Institute covering the whole field of environment protection. He has been active in international cooperation (e.g. Nordic Council of Ministers, OECD, EU and UN).
Esa is a limnologist by training and he has a long career dealing with hazardous chemicals and the environment. He lives part of the year in the archipelago of Gulf of Finland. Believing that the cities play a major role in saving the world, Esa wants to keep Helsinki in the frontline in solving environmental problems. Currently, for example Carbon Neutrality of Helsinki by 2035 and the protection of Baltic Sea are high on his agenda.
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Holding positions of the Chairman of the Emirates Green Building Council and a Board Director of the World Green Building Council, Saeed Alabbar actively works in promoting the advancement of sustainable building in the UAE and MENA region by working with industry, academia and government departments to develop collaborative solutions to some of the regions greatest challenges.
Saeed is a Director at AESG, a firm specialising in the provision of energy and sustainability consultancy in the Middle East. In his role at AESG, he has been involved in managing and directing a variety of sustainable design, construction and retrofit projects throughout the Middle East. These have included some of the largest and most prestigious master plan developments in the region, high rise buildings, housing development and critical infrastructure. Since establishment, the firm has developed a strong reputation in the region for delivering high quality sustainability and energy consultancy.
Saeed also serves on the Advisory Board for the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Mechanical Engineering Program. In 2010, Saeed was awarded the title of International Young Consultant of the Year by British Expertise in the UK. In 2012, Saeed was named in Gulf Business’s top 30 achievers in the MENA region under the age of 30.
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Angelina is a journalist, expert at the German-Russian Exchange (Berlin), Director of Environmental Information Bureau. Since 1999, she has been working for the Russian and international mass media. She is presently writing for Kommersant, RBC, Takie Dela, Colta.ru, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Kilmaretter.info, The Science Magazine, Open Democracy, The Conversation, and n-ost. She is the editor of the "Ecology and Law" quarterly magazine.
She specialises on topics of environmental policy, green economy, economics and politics of climate change, climate negotiations at UNO, civil society movements on environment and sustainable urban development.
She is a graduate of the Saint Petersburg State University of Service and Economics. She has received scholarships from Reuters Program at the Oxford University (2006), Environmental Leadership Program, UC Berkeley, California (2012), Humphrey Fellowship, UC Davis, California (2018-2019). Since 2008, she has been an observer of UN climate negotiations.
She teaches at the Journalism Faculty of St. Petersburg State University and University of Information Technology, Mechanics and Optics; she arranges media training sessions on environmental journalism in the cities of the Russian Federation, Eastern European, and Central Asian countries. From 2010–2012, she managed a media project Water Stories dedicated to water-related journalism in the Central Asian countries and the Aral Sea basin.