Sustainability Laboratory

The laboratory is aimed at comprehensive research in the field of sustainable development, sustainability transitions for Russian municipalities, businesses, NGOs, and international organizations: waste management, water and air pollution, energy efficiency, sustainable transport, green innovation and circular economy, digitalization and smart technologies, green attitudes and practices, social and environmental policies, sustainable jobs, issues of social justice and sustainability.

Areas of expertise:

• Localization of international experience and SDG best practices to Russian context;

• Comprehensive assessment of SDG for Russian municipalities, businesses, NGOs based on the statistics, big data analytics, sociological data;

• Engaging various stakeholders in achieving SDG for Russia;

• SDG in crisis and post-crisis periods;

• Development of recommendations and strategies to accelerate the transition to SDG;

• Assessing the MVP of green innovations and eco-solutions for different stakeholder groups.

Competitive advantages

• International research team of highly qualified certified ecologists, economists, sociologists, engineers.

• More than 15 years of successful experience in the field of SDG research for federal and regional authorities, business structures, local and international foundations.

• An integrative approach to SDG based on sociological, economical, ecological and engineering intellectual tools. We are on the cutting edge of the current interdisciplinary frameworks and tools: ESG strategies for business, consultation in developing the reports according to different standards (GRI, P5-Standart), ecosystem services, cross-sector partnership analysis and participatory participation and modeling, big data analytics, sociological methods, UX, costumer development instruments, rapid hypothesis testing and MVP for eco-innovations, SWOT, PESTLE, Nexus, LCA, MRIO and etc.

• Invited laboratory expert, Dr. M. Kuchukvar has a successful practical experience in localizing the SDGs for Doha (Qatar), and is also in the top 2% of scientists in the world in terms of the number of citations in environmental and earth sciences (H index = 37) .

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Last updated: 18 December 2023, 14:43