BRICS
Green Cities
Forum
Moscow,
Zaryadye Hall
Zaryadye Hall
A platform for sharing experiences and integrating
green innovations into the life of big cities
Anthropogenic challenges
Modern cities face significant anthropogenic challenges:
Noise pollution
Transportation load
Air, water and soil pollution
Waste disposal
High power consumption
Reduction of green areas
Aim of the BRICS Green Cities Forum
The aim of the BRICS Green Cities Forum is to find, standardize and scale environmental solutions internationally
What will be on the forum
4 wow-sessions
10 activities
workshops, case studies, master classes
16 sessions
with representatives of BRICS countries
Plenary sessions
with mayors of BRICS cities
Ecothon Moscow Green Code
with practical environmental case studies
Insight Interview
with the Nobel Peace Prize winner
Speakers 2024
Rae Kwon Chung
Honorary Chairman of the Forum, Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (2007). Former UN Secretary General’s Advisor on Climate Change, South Korea
Amanda Da Cruz Costa
Climate change activist, founder and director of the Perifa Sustentável Institute (NPO), UNODC youth ambassador
Evgeny Danchikov
Minister of the Moscow City Government, Head of the Main Control Department of the City of Moscow
Viktor Danilov-Danilyan
Scientific Head of FGBUN Institute of Water Problems of RAS, Corresponding Member of RAS, Dr. Sci.
Dr. Dhruba Purkayastha
Director of Growth and Institutional Advancement, Council on Energy, Environment and Water
Carlo Giglio
Adjunct professor at the University of Calabria, member of the Italian Association of Engineering Management
Professor Gladys Cecilia Hernandez-Pedraza
Deputy Director of the International Financial Studies Department of the Center for Research on the World Economy (CIES)
Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment of Cuba
Hugo Salomão França
CEO, AAX Consulting Company
Ekaterina Kuzmina
Vice President, Head of Sustainable Development Department, PJSC Promsvyazbank, President of the Mammoth Effect Foundation
Maurício Guerra
Director of Urban Environment of the National Secretariat for Urban Environment and Environmental Quality of Brazil
Tebogo Modiba
Executive Director
Johannesburg Environment and Infrastructure Services Department
Nikita Nikishkin
Founder and CEO of Ubirator
Dr. Guillermo Penalosa
Runner-up in the 2022 Toronto mayoral election Top 100 Most Influential Contemporary Urbanists, Columbia / Canada
Ramón Pichs-Madruga
Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); Director, Senior Research Fellow, Center for World Economy Research (CWER)
Dr. Priyadarshi Dash
Associate Professor at Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS)
Salomar Mafaldo de Amorim Júnior
General Coordinator for Sustainable Cities, Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, Brazil
Thanduxolo Mendrew
Managing Director
Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo
Yulia Urozhayeva
Head of the Department of Nature Management and Environmental Protection of the City of Moscow
Harish Hassan Visweswara
Founder and CEO of ECube Investment Advisors
Ecothon
The first international platform for teamwork in Russia on the development of green urbanism and solving the environmental problems of BRICS megacities
1000+ participants from BRICS countries
150+ international teams
80 experts and trackers
Analysis of real cases and search for applicative ecotransformation tools
An online educational platform for the participation of collectives from different countries
Opportunity to apply ecotone developments on the basis of BRICS cities
Ecothon's aim
Through the development of digital services, monitoring, accounting and control systems, as well as the conceptualization of green zones, find and create effective tools to influence the environment of BRICS megacities
Who can participate
IT experts
programmers, engineers, analysts, testers, system administrators, architects, artificial intelligence specialists
Executives
project managers, product managers, entrepreneurs, marketers, financial and business analysts
Creators
graphic, industrial and product designers, animators, data visualization specialists and 3D modeling experts
Students
ecologists, public health specialists, urban planners and all those wishing to gain practical experience in implementing environmental projects
