The International Sustainable Energy Development Centre (ISEDC) was established in Moscow in 2008 under the auspices of UNESCO. ISEDC aims to promote sustainable energy development through scientific research, international cooperation, educational programs, and exhibitions. It serves as an international platform for experts to collaborate on global energy challenges. ISEDC runs a fellowship program that has supported over 120 fellows from 73 countries, and has organized exhibitions in Russia and abroad to promote sustainable energy.

1. International Sustainable Energy Development Centre
under the auspices of UNESCO (ISEDC)
2015
Ecology & Climate Publishing ExhibitionsSustainable Energy
Development
EducationInternational
Cooperation
Energy Efficiency
& RES

2. ISEDC
5th September, 2008
The official Agreement on the establishment and operation of the
International Sustainable Energy Development Centre in Moscow as a category
2 Centre under the auspices of UNESCO was signed by Director General of
UNESCO, Mr. Koichiro Matsuura, and Minister of Energy of the Russian
Federation, Mr. Sergey Shmatko
The Centre’s establishment became an official reinforcement of a position of Russia declared in 2006 at the G8 Summit
in St. Petersburg, necessarily formations of the coordinated policy of the leading countries of the world in the field of
global energy security and struggle against energy poverty, a key role in which should play the specialized international
organizations
ISEDC mission is to promote humanitarian aspects and principles of sustainable energy development
ISEDC main function is to serve as an international platform for communication and collaboration between world’s
leading scientists and experts on present and future global energy challenges
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3. ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE
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4. GOVERNING BOARD
Chairman:
ALEKSANDR NOVAK
Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation (Moscow, Russia)
Deputy Chairman:
VLADIMIR KALAMANOV
Director General of ISEDC (Moscow, Russia)
MARCIO BARBOSA
Chief Executive Officer of “Education Above All” Foundation (Doha, Qatar)
OSMAN BENCHIKH
Chief of the Innovation and Capacity Building in Science and Engineering Section,
Natural Sciences Sector, UNESCO (Paris, France)
ANDREI VOLKOV
Professor of Management, Moscow School of Management “Skolkovo”
(Moscow, Russia)
EVGENY DOD
Chairman of the Management Board of JSC “RusHydro” (Moscow, Russia)
NURITDIN INAMOV
Director of International Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation (Moscow, Russia)
VENIAMIN KAGANOV
Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
(Moscow, Russia)
MACIEJ NALECZ
Director of the Division of Science Policy and Capacity Building, Natural Sciences
Sector, UNESCO (Paris, France)
GLEB NIKITIN
First Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
(Moscow, Russia)
ALEXEI TEKSLER
First Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation (Moscow, Russia)
ANATOLY TIKHONOV
Director General of FSBO “Russian Energy Agency” of the Russian Ministry of Energy
(Moscow, Russia)
OLEG FAVORSKIY
President of ANO “Centre for Energy Policy” (Moscow, Russia)
VLADIMIR FILIPPOV
Rector of Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (Moscow, Russia)
VLADIMIR FORTOV
President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia)
FLAVIA SCHLEGEL
Assistant Director-General of the Natural Sciences Sector, UNESCO (Paris, France)
ANATOLY YANOVSKIY
Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation (Moscow, Russia)
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5. “Providing mankind with accessible, reliable, and sustainable energy is
one of the most important missions of the third millennium. Only well-
coordinated and purposeful efforts of the global community can
significantly broaden access to energy services. To achieve sustainable
energy development it is vital to assure that all states have access to
advanced energy technologies through global dissemination and
exchange of knowledge in this field. Broad implementation of energy-
saving technologies and renewable energy sources is to contribute
significantly to solving the problem of energy poverty. Active support
and persistent promotion of initiatives targeted at enhancing the
efficiency of international efforts to eliminate the problem of energy
poverty is one of the paramount goals of the global energy
community”
VLADIMIR KALAMANOV
Director General of ISEDC
MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR GENERAL
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6. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND EXPERTISE
Sustainable energy development is impossible without high-quality, effective researches and analytical support of the
international efforts in this area
To this end, experts of the Centre carry out scientific and research works and provide expert support to various
executive authorities of the Russian Federation
Over the period of its activities, ISEDC performed more than 40 research works in the following fields:
• International cooperation
• Sustainable energy development
• Energy efficiency
• Ecology
• Climate
• RES
• Economics/Innovations
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7. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
In accordance with the UNESCO goals and objectives, ISEDC carries out the UNESCO/ISEDC Co-
Sponsored Fellowships Programme for specialists of the energy sector and related areas (ecology,
environmental protection, green technologies) from developing countries and countries in transition
UNDP/GEF Project “Greening 2014 Sochi Olympics: Strategy and Action Plan for the Greening Legacy”
UNDP/GEF Project “Energy Efficiency in the North West of Russia”
UNECE Project “Increasing Energy Efficiency for Secure Energy Supplies”
UNECE Project “Development of the Renewable Energy Sector in the Russian Federation and in CIS
Countries: Prospects for Interregional Cooperation”
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8. UNESCO/ISEDC Co-Sponsored Fellowships Programme
Geography of Fellowships Programme
2008 – 2014
45%
21%
15%
12%
7% Africa
Asia
Latin America
CIS
Europe
• The purpose of this educational project is to
create a multinational platform for the
development of international cooperation in
the field of energy issues between
professionals
• The main emphasis of the Programme is
made on the relevant and topical issues, such
as sustainable energy development, renewable
energy, environment protection, development
of cooperation in the field of energy
technologies, strengthening the international
human capacity building in the energy sector
• 8 educational sessions
• 122 participants from 73 countries
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9. EXHIBITIONS
• Since 2008, ISEDC had organized congress events and Russian expositions at various exhibitions
in Russia and abroad
Geography of consummated projects
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10. PUBLISHING
Energy Bulletin
- is a periodical issued by ISEDC in cooperation with
UNESCO, which serves as a complementary source of
information on sustainable energy development and
issues like climate change mitigation, access to energy
resources and eradication of energy poverty, energy
education, research and forecasting in the energy sector
• published two times a year both in English and
Russian languages
White Paper
• In 2009 the White Paper “Global Energy and
Sustainable Development” was issued. It presented a
study on prospects of sustainable development as a
major aspect of the XXI century agenda
• The second volume of White Paper “World Energy
2050” was published in 2011. It presented trend
analysis and forecast for the world energy
development for the period up to 2050
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11. CONTACTS
ANO “International Sustainable Energy Development Centre”
under the auspices of UNESCO
117292, Russia, Moscow, Kedrova st., bld. 8/1-2
Tel.: +7 /495/ 641 04 26
E-mail: info@isedc-u.com, pr@isedc-u.com
www.isedc-u.com
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