On the International Climate Day celebrated on May 15, the Karelian Research Center RAS held a webinar “Regional-level Cooperation on Climate Change Research in the BRICS”. It gathered experts from Russia, Belarus, China, India and Ethiopia. Scientists discussed modern approaches to the study of various factors influencing climate change on the planet.
In her opening address, KarRC RAS Director General Olga Bakhmet reminded that since 2023 the Karelian Research Center RAS, with the support and direct participation of the National Committee for BRICS Research (Russia), has been organizing the international conference “Regional Cooperation in the BRICS: Modern Environmental and Nature Management Issues”. This is the first event to focus specifically on promoting regional-level cooperation between scientists from BRICS+ countries. At the 2024 conference, Olga Bakhmet stated that KarRC RAS is willing to become a platform for networking between BRICS scientists on environmental issues. This willingness was documented in the conference final resolution.
"Today's webinar launches a series of events we have planned in follow-up to the conferences and which are intended to establish and foster interactions between scientists from the BRICS Plus countries at the regional level. Peer-to-peer connections between scientists and networking is a most efficient way to cooperate, giving the opportunity to organize joint research activities and prepare project proposals to address topical issues of mutual interest in a relatively short amount of time", – stressed the Director General.
Karelia was represented in the webinar by the Head of the Geography and Hydrology Laboratory of the Northern Water Problems Institute KarRC RAS Aleksey Tolstikov and Senior Researcher of the KarRC RAS Department for Multidisciplinary Research Dmitry Yekimov.
Aleksey Tolstikov presented the results of climate change modeling for the White Sea region up to the end of the XXI century based on the precipitation sampling and estimation methods. Dmitry Yekimov spoke about the causes of incertainties in the estimation of soil carbon fluxes, including flaws in the equipment and techniques for measuring and estimating CO2 emissions. The presentation showcased the activities of the Laboratory for Ecological Monitoring and Modeling DMR KarRC RAS within the RITM Carbon project.
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