December 16,2021, Dubai, UAE
The meeting of the Ecology and Healthcare Working Committee was held on December 15 - 16, 2021 in Dubai, UAE at the invitation of the IBC Senior Sponsoring Member, Comita Group of Companies. The meeting was held in a mixed format, allowing over 30 participants to meet in person at the Shangri-La Hotel and participate in the business dinner preceding the committee meeting. More than 20 committee members participated in the meeting in online format.
Dr. N. Jankovic, Chairman of the Working Committee and Head of Comita Group of Companies for Russia and CIS, chaired the session on "Natural Gas as a Basis for Decarbonization of Energy and Transport Sectors". During the session the following presentations were made:
- “Prospects of hydrogen energy based on natural gas” Dr. Alexander Ishkov, Deputy Head of Department, Head of Directorate Gazprom. Coordinator of the ECOH Sub-Working Group "Ecology Management
- “On the Results of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP-26)” Dr. Konstantin Romanov, Head of Division, Gazprom PJSC; CEO Gazprom Hydrogen LLC
- “Reflections on Singapore response to global trends” Serguei Edrenkine, General Manager, Gazprom Marketing & Trading Singapore
- “Towards a sustainable future. Yokogawa Electric's experience in implementing hydrogen energy projects” Andrei Gulakov, Head of commercial division Russia & CIS, Yokogawa Electric CIS Ltd.
- “Natural gas as the transition fuel to the decarbonization- The view from the Balkan Stream” Andrej Bojić, Director, eComita Tehnologije
- “Gazprom and its subsidiaries program for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases” Irina Kharebava, Deputy Head of Division, Gazprom
- “Innovative technologies in eye surgery” Vladimir Antonyuk, Head of Ophthalmology Center, Gazprom ICDC
- “Theoretical Foundations for a New Ecology: Perspectives of the Theoesthetics” Aleksei Gaginskii, Director of the Theoesthetics Foundation, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Presentation of the Vernadsky Non-Governmental Environmental Foundation & IBC »Ecology and Healthcare« Working Committee Project: The role of methane in decarbonization and energy transition Dr. Alexander Ishkov, Deputy Head of Department, Head of Directorate Gazprom. Coordinator of the ECOH Sub-Working Group "Ecology Management" Dr. Nebojsa Jankovic, Chairman of the »Ecology and Healthcare« Working Committee, Head of Comita Group of Companies for Russia and CIS