Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for the dissemination of scientific knowledge on climate change, the author of over 180 scientific and popular-science works on the physical causes and consequences of climate change and the Director of the climate program of the World Wildlife Fund, WWF Russia Alexey KOKORIN reflects on eventual climate change scenario for Central Asia and how Mass Media may help adapt to climate change.
Why the international community does not consider Central Asia a vulnerable region? And is it true? Whether big or small countries are more adaptive to climate change?
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Brief info about the speaker
Alexey KOKORIN
Director of the climate program of the World Wildlife Fund, WWF Russia
Alexey Kokorin has nearly 45 years of experience in climate issues. He is the author of more than 180 scientific and popular-science works on the underlying physical causes and consequences of climate change, international climate cooperation, education and popularization of scientific knowledge. In 1981, Kokorin graduated with honors from Lomonosov Moscow State University, Physics Department. In 1984 he received his PhD in physics and mathematics from the same university. For over 15 years, he worked at the Institute of Global Climate and Ecology of Roshydromet (Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring) and the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he rose from junior to lead researcher.
From the late 1980s, he participated as a leading author in the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for the dissemination of scientific knowledge on climate change among thousands of scientists who contributed to its work.
Since 1994, Kokorin actively participates in the work of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); since the 1990s as a member of the Russian delegation and for the last 20 years as an observer and independent expert. Since 2000 he is the Director of the Climate Program of WWF-Russia. In addition, he works closely with the WWF Central Asia Program. In 2017 Kokorin was awarded the badge "Honorary Conservationist of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Russia" the certificate of honor of Roshydromet for many years of diligent work.
Over the many years of his work, Kokorin has been the leader or leading expert on over 30 climate projects of WWF, UNEP, UNDP, the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, and many international and national cooperation agencies. In recent years he became involved in the work of the WWF Central Asia Program, in particular in the promotion of adaptation to climate change.
Through his work with the media, Alexei is actively involved in communicating scientific information on climate change to the public at large. Over the past 20 years, he has given about 4,000 interviews to Russian and foreign media. A.O. Kokorin is constantly analyzing the activities of the UNFCCC and its Paris Agreement; since 2000, twice a year he prepares detailed information reviews for specialists in Russia and neighboring countries.