DR. Sergey Roginko
The man who stands at the very heart of the Climate Action. The man who is trying to put the Forests into the Center of the Climate Agenda
TOP CLIMATE POLICY INFLUENCER
A Career Shaping Climate History
2003
Author of the National Bestseller, The Kyoto Roulette
2003
Member, Russian Interagency Climate Change Commission
2004
Member, President’s Ad Hoc Group on Kyoto Protocol
2004
Member, Global Warming  & Kyoto Protocol Seminar of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2006
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC-Russia), Head, G8 & Kyoto Working Group
2010 – 2015
Russian Energy Agency, Climate Policy Advisor to the Director General
since 2016
State Duma (Parliament) Energy Committee, Assistant to the First Deputy Chairman
2019
Russian Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Head, Climate Change Subcommittee, Energy Strategy Committee
KYOTO PROTOCOL
IMPACT
  • Played a key role in bringing the Kyoto Protocol into force
  • Author of the National Bestseller, The Kyoto Roulette, 2003
  • Russian involvement with its 17% share was the only way to get the Protocol launched
2003, Moscow
President Vladimir Putin reading the Kyoto Roulette, Moscow, 2003, G8 Climate Conference 
SCIENCE, ACADEMIA & MEDIA INFLUENCE
Author, 5 books and over 120 articles on Climate Change & Energy Policy
Work at IIASA, the famous Global Center of Climate Change Science (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria)

Head, Environment & Development Center, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences
Professor, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, since 2019

Director, Institute of World Economy & International Finance,  Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, 2020
Regular Speaker on Climate & Environment at the Key National TV Channels, including the 1-st Channel, the RBK,  the Russia 1, NTV, Ren TV, TNT, STS, Zvezda, Moscow-24, etc.
GLOBAL CLIMATE NEGOTIATOR
Representing Russia on Global Climate Events since 2001 (UNFCC COPs and SBI/SBSTAs, G8 Summits and other events, ICAO CORSIA events)
Member, ICAO Technical Advisory Body (CORSIA System), since 2019 
Head, National Negotiating Groups on Market Mechanisms: Paris UN Climate Conference, Climate Conferences in Milan, Bali, Poznan, Copenhagen, Marrakesh, Fiji/Bonn
FOREST NGO ACTIVITIES
Initiator & Founder, Mission Forest NGO, 2024
Building Climate Awareness
All-Russian Nature Conservation Society (VOOP), Founder & Head, Climate Change Program, 2015-2023
Leading Environmental Action
Vice Chairman, Moscow VOOP Section, 2015-2023
Shaping Forest Policy
 Organizer, National Roundtable on Boreal Forest Sinks (together with the Ministry of Environment), 2017
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ACTOR
Organizer of the First International Carbon Business Forum in History (within the G8 Climate Conference, Moscow, 2003)
The Pilot deal concluded in 2024 between partners from United Arab Emirates and Russian Federation.
Pioneer & Initiator, International Climate Policy Partnership Projects with German Energy Agency, Italian Ministry of Environment, DEFRA (UK), 2003 -2006
Pilot deal reported at the BRICS Climate Conference - 2024

Initiator of the First Forest Carbon Deal within BRICS
Initiator, pre-COP-28 online Conference with the United Arab Emirates Climate Change Team, sharing views on the forthcoming UNFCC COP in Dubai
Initiator & Head, UNIDO Project on GHG Mitigation in Carbon- Intensive Industries of Russia, 2010 – 2015