Angelina Davydova: ‘The topics of meridian and sustainability are apropos increasingly critical in Russia’

Name: Angelina Davydova:
Lives in: Sankt Petersburg, Russia
Country of origin: Russia
Period in Germany: Internship with a Ministry for Urban Development and Environment in Hamburg 2009
Occupation: Environmental journalist

The university-educated economist and publisher Angelina Davydova heads a Russian-German Office of Environmental Information (RNEI) and teaches broadcasting during a university in St. Petersburg. In addition, she has been an spectator of UN meridian insurance negotiations given 2008.

Ms Davydova, here in Germany, a tenure ‘sustainability’ has been a pivotal thesis of a sourroundings discuss for many years. More recently, a tenure ‘sustainable consumption’ has turn some-more of an issue, changeable shortcoming to any and each one of us. Am we right in meditative that this is not such a vital emanate in Russia?

Angelina Davydova: we have been traffic intensively with environmental and sustainability issues given 2008. During this time, recognition of this subject has increasing a good understanding in Russia. In 2008 it was during best deliberate something for ‘eco-freaks’. Today it’s a subject that has truly left mainstream. At slightest in a bigger cities and among younger people who are meddlesome in a universe around them, and who transport and review online media. For these people, future-oriented issues such as tolerable expenditure have a most larger stress than before.

What purpose do a media play in this?

Angelina Davydova: Topics such as a environment, meridian and sustainability are removing some-more courtesy in a Russian media landscape too, and are also increasingly found opposite a house in mainstream media, from online and imitation media to television. As a freelance author, we myself write frequently not usually for several environmental news media though also for ‘Kommersant’, one of a heading daily newspapers in Russia.

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