The international ECOTECH Forum and Exposition will be held in Moscow (at the International Exposition Center “Crocus Expo”) on April 26-29, 2016, to touch upon the “green” economy matters and nature protection technologies. The event is held under the logo “’Green’ economy is the basis of sustainable development!” for professional audience involved in solution of nature protection issues in the specific segment of the international market of eco-technologies, goods, works, and services. The exposition and discussions will touch upon all nature protection areas of concern: water, air, wastes, land resources, energy conservation, “green" standards, eco-transport, forest resources and urban environment, ecological monitoring and control, as well as ecological services. The ECOTECH business program will include

The remuneration paid to the citizens who have submitted the information on the violations of the nature protection legislation on the territory of the Republic of Tatarstan has been increased. Earlier, the citizen who provided photo or video information on the offender received one thousand rubles, and starting 2016 this sum has been increased to 1.5 thousand rubles. Moreover, the list of violations has also been expanded. Besides illegal placement of waste and illegal extraction of mineral resources, people can now also report on the restricted access to the public water facility or its coastline, on the violation of the mode of economic or other activity of the water protection area of the water facility and land damage (destruction of the fertile layer

The hot line number, the e-mail, the State Information System “People’s control”, the mobile application “School eco-patrol” are all accessible for the citizens to report on the nature protection violations. All the information received from the citizens is referred to the Republican Public Ecological Reception Office. The information on illegal extraction of common mineral resources, unauthorized landfills, restriction of the access to the water 

Today Russia has faced a challenge of the model selection – either a traditional pattern for the regulation of pollutions, or introduction of a system of greenhouse gas emissions tradingaka “carbon” tax. Nevertheless, either of these options requirescareful elaboration and system analysis of the consequences for the economy of the country, as it is reported on the official website of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources. 

“Everyone is important to the nature. Let’s save biodiversity!”–the International campaign “March of parks-2016” will be held on April 22-26 under this slogan. The campaign is aimed at enhancement in the importance of specially protected territories, assurance of the relevant publicmaintenance of the protectednatural territory, involvement of citizens in rendering practical assistanceto nature reserves

Creative teams of children’s educational and cultural institutions of the Republic of Tatarstan are invited to participate in the II Republican Ecological Festival and Contest “Rainbow-colored stage”.The event will be held on April 26 - 27, 2016 at 3 p.m. on the stage

The ecological holiday “World Water Day” will be held in Kazan on March 22nd at the Youth Center “Ak Bars”.The event will be held in the form of a presentation of achievements of underwater researchers of Tatarstan. During the first part of the event, the photo-exhibition of the underwater team of the Russian Geographical Society named after Alexey Leonov will be opened. The members of the team will present photos from expeditions when they set the world records – “The pole of Cold”, “Antarctic-10

This year, the largest in the world ecological campaign will be held on March 19th at 8:30 pm local time. The humanity’s ecological footprint will be the topic of the event. The campaign symbolizes solidarity of citizens of various countries in solution of issues regarding energy and resource saving, as well as improvement of ecological situation on the planetary scale. The website dedicated to the Earth Hour 2016 was launched presenting more detailed information on the campaign to participate in it. The official website of the campaign – 60.wwf.ru.

Heads of all the authorities, state authorities of the Republic of Tatarstan, companies and organizations, as well as population of the Republic were invited to join the campaign and switch off for

All pupils are invited to participate in the city stage of the International nature protection campaign “March of parks-2016”. The event will be held on May 1-16 at Kazan Children’s Ecological and Biological Center. It is aimed at fostering of ecology-oriented mindset in the young generation and its involvement in the nature protection activity. The events of the “March of Parks” are carried out in the following areas:

All those who are not indifferent to the matters related to ecology and energy efficiency are invited to participate in the Conference “Ecology and Energy Efficiency” in the framework of the XVI International Symposium “Energy and Resources Efficiency and Energy Conservation” and the XVII International specialized exhibition “Energetics. Cost-effective use of resources”. The event will be held on March 17, 2016 on the premises of “Kazan Fair” OJSC. The conference is organized by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan together with the State Autonomous Agency “Center of energy-saving technologies of the Republic of Tatarstan under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan”.

The main topics for discussion will include:

• Creation and development of high-efficiency eco-frien