Darya Ryazantseva, Sustainability Manager, EthnoExpert

1. People for Arctic ecosystem
Darya Ryazantseva
Sustainability Manager

2. EthnoExpert focuses on professional
advisory services for businesses,
energy and construction industries,
IT and green finance, governments and
non-profit sector
Our strategy is aimed at the
development of projects
“on the ground” with real actions
for sustainable development
The people and
communities are
in the spotlight
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3. INTERNATIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS
PERMAFROST
INDIGENOUS
PEOPLE
SCIENTISTS AND
PRACTITIONERS IN
ARCTIC ECOLOGY
LOCAL
COMMUNITIES
GOVERNMENT
and all levels
of state
authorities
SEASONAL
WORKERS
INDUSTRIAL
COMPANIES
POLITICAL
LEADERS
ECOLOGICAL
AND HUMAN
RIGHTS
NGOS AND
ASSOCIATIONS
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Who are the people of the Arctic?

4. LONG-TERM
business development is provided
by building communications with
stakeholders
Systemic dialogue is a crucial
condition for the successful project
implementation in modern conditions.
It is necessary to coordinate
positions and opinions of
the parties on climate change
issues, and in particular
on the permafrost
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5. • To engage all stakeholders in
common activity taking into account
special roles of men, women, young
people and children
• Traditional methods of environmental
education (lectures, dissemination
of informative materials) often don’t
work
• More efficient are practical training
programs and workshops, engaging
stakeholders in the educational
process
Joint work
ennobles
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6. • Nenets with a nomadic lifestyle
• 36 families are involved in economic
activities in Seyahinskaya tundra
• Traditional nature management:
reindeer henders and fishing
MONITORING
Cracks in the ground
High levels of water
inside the earth’s surface
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7. The ecological restoration method aimed
at initial ecosystem recovery in the long-term
prospective by means of scientifically-based
project development on the pilot site
EthnoExpert
Care for Ecosystems
Russian partner – Econord
Yamal LNG
Local community
THE PROJECT TEAM:
We value not only
the final results,
but the project
evolution itself
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8. • To consider all
stakeholder groups
– obvious and non-
obvious, as well as their
impact on climate change
and the impact of climate
change on them
• To practice stakeholder
management for setting
up a dialogue in interests
of people and ecosystem
• To act for sustainability
BENEFITS FROM
CLIMATE-RELATED
INITIATIVES
• increasing
the company’s
sustainable
development index
and reputation
• gaining competitive
advantage
• increasing customer
loyalty and etc.
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9. CLEAN ENERGY FOR
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
IN THE ARCTIC
HUMAN RIGHTS
PROMOTION WITHIN
VULNERABLE GROUPS
IN THE ARCTIC
(YOUTH, WOMEN,
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE)
ECOLOGICAL
EDUCATION THROUGH
PARTNERSHIPS
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10. darya.ryazantseva@ethnoexpert.com
Latvia
Dzirnavu street 39, Riga, LV-1010
+371 686 21 230
Russia
60A, B. Sampsonievski Ave.
St. Petersburg, 194044
+7 (812) 676 0377
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