In Focus: Corporate Governance and Sustainability

This paper by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) evaluates green stimulus packages that were introduced in response to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007-2008 and draws lessons relevant for greening the recovery from the COVID-19 crisis.

This report by the Ellen Macarthur Foundation outlines a fundamental rethink for plastic packaging and plastics in general; it offers a new systemic approach, aligned with the principles of the circular economy, and provides an action plan to raise the efficiency of the global plastics industry.

The current perspectives for the formation of international energy markets are mainly due to the policy of decarbonization of world energy and the growth of energy consumption. Each country forms its energy policy based on its own fuel and energy potential and the situation on international energy markets. The global oil market is currently largely dependent on global processes with a high degree of ‘uncertainty" associated with the use of protectionist and political methods of struggle in the global world economy. «Trade wars», and sanctions increase the uncertainty of the market for the «global» energy resource — oil. The global market for «alternative» energy and technology in this area is much more defined and predictable. The introduction of «platform» economy methods in the energy sector, in combination with the macroregional form of organization of energy markets, will reduce uncertainty factors by avoiding protectionist methods, including sanctions methods, leaving them behind the «perimeter» of macroregional borders.

Task force Arctic Energy at the Energy Centre of the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO present the second volume of study series Arctic Energy dedicated to analysis of activities of major oil and gas companies in development of the Russian Arctic.