The 13th session of the UNESCO/ISEDC Co-Sponsored Fellowships Programme for young specialists from developing countries, countries in transition and less developed countries started on September, 30 in the International Sustainable Energy Development Centre under the auspices of UNESCO.
The agenda of this year’s session is focused on effective use of energy resources as a part of sustainable development.
The opening ceremony began with the welcoming remarks from Yury Posysaev, the Executive Director of ISEDC. He congratulated the participants on the start of the Programme and stressed the importance of training specialists and raising the capacity building to find ways to solve the global challenges facing modern society. He also expressed confidence that the training during the Programme will contribute to improving the professional level of participating specialists as managers capable of making thoughtful and effective decisions. Nineteen young specialists from Asia, Africa, Central and Latin America, Eastern Europe and the CIS countries are taking part in the 13th session of the Fellowships Programme.
During the first week of the training course the participants met with Grigory Yulkin, Head of Strategic Planning and Partnership Department of ISEDC.
Presentation of Grigory Yulkin was dedicated to the problems of sustainable development within the context of climate change. His lecture included a variety of topics: evolution of climate change policy (from Kyoto Protocol to Paris Agreement), reasons, trends and scopes of climate change problem, as well as models of the climate change in dependence of different scenarios, current researches on this problem and expected outcomes, and correlation of climate and energy with anthropogenic activity.
The issues of the effective management of the environmental footprint of the economy and the demand for ecosystem resources were widely discussed with students as well. During the lecture, there was found the correlation between the growth of people's welfare and resource intensity (including energy intensity) of the economy. This tendency amplifies the relevance of the initiatives set to achieving the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals until 2030, and allowing to stimulate the growth of the global economy and reduce the deficit of biocapacity. Grigory Yulkin clearly demonstrated the possibilities for raising the living standards of people in the developing countries and maintaining the pace of development in the developed countries, which are appearing in the context of the low-carbon paradigm of the global economy.
On October 3-4, 2019, the participants of the 13th session of the UNESCO/ISEDC Co-sponsored Fellowships Programme took part in the events of the International Forum “Russian Energy Week - 2019”. The participation in this event provided an opportunity to become familiar with the development potential of the energy complex of Russia, as well as with the ways of realization of the potential of international cooperation in the field of energy and the main challenges faced by the energy sector of the economy to address current development problems.
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