Elizaveta V. Smolovik

An article by Igor Makarov, Director of the HSE Institute for Economics of Natural Resources and Climate Change, co-authored with Elizaveta Smolovik, Junior Research Fellow at the Laboratory for the Climate Change Economics, has been published in Energy Research & Social Science, one of the leading international journals in the field of energy and social research. The study analyses which countries stand to gain or lose in the context of the global energy transition.

From 3 to 5 December 2025, the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at HSE University hosted the XIII Annual Conference on the World Economy, “BRICS and Rethinking the Global Economic Order”. Staff members of the Institute for Economics of Natural Resources and Climate Change at HSE University took part in the conference, presenting a number of academic papers.

On 28 November 2025, an expert and academic seminar entitled “International Cooperation on Climate Change: Current State and Future Prospects” was held. The event was organised by the Institute for Macroeconomic and Regional Studies (Uzbekistan) in cooperation with the Institute for Economics of Natural Resources and Climate Change at HSE University, with the support of Gazprombank.

Elizaveta Smolovik, Junior Research Fellow at the Laboratory for Climate Change Economics, spoke at the expert seminar "Unrealised Solutions and New Challenges: Ensuring a Just Transition to Low-Carbon Development Models as a Prerequisite for Sustainable Growth", held at RANEPA on 14 October.

Researchers from the Laboratory for Climate Change Economics took part in the International Scientific and Practical Conference on Ecology and Climate Change (ICECC), held at the Sirius University of Science and Technology from 14 to 16 September.

Igor Makarov, Elizaveta Smolovik, and Matvey Chistikov contributed to the article  "Heuristic Relative Assessment of Climate Risks in Russian Regions", published in Science of the Total Environment  – one of the most highly cited international journals in the field of environmental research.

Polina Kanevskaya and Elizaveta Smolovik, researchers from the Laboratory for Climate Change Economics, took part in the 16th International "Ecology" Forum.

A new academic initiative between the World Faculty at HSE University and the Federal University of Minas Gerais, supported by the International Relations and Global Studies programme (IR&GS), was launched with an online seminar focused on the BRICS currency architecture. This event marked an important step in building a strong academic partnership between the two institutions.

From April 15 to 18, HSE University hosted the XXV Yasin (April) International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development. Researchers from the Laboratory for Climate Change Economics presented their work at the event.

The report was prepared by the BRICS Expert Council – Russia with the support of the BRICS Think Tank Council (BTTC), following Russia’s 2024 presidency of the group.

At the height of the tangerine season in Russia, Oleg Korneev, Academic Supervisor of the BA programme “International Relations and Global Studies” (IRGS) visited Oran (Algeria). The province of Oran is the birthplace and the veritable capital of clementines, which makes visiting it in winter especially symbolic. But Oran is known not only for its sweet sunny citrus fruits, rai music, urban legends from the times of the plague, inimitable architectural blends and unique seaside atmosphere that inspired works of Albert Camus and creations of Yves Saint Laurent. This second-largest city in Algeria is also an authoritative business and cultural centre, and a major pole of research and higher education in the country.

Researchers from the Laboratory for Climate Change Economics took part in the 12th Annual Conference on the Global Economy, titled  “Challenges of catch-up: Emerging countries in the global economy”, organized by the School of World Economy at the HSE University.

The Second Saint-Petersburg Congress on International Studies was held in St. Petersburg from April 25 to 27. Within the agenda of the Congress, the Laboratory on Climate Change Economics organized a session "Global Climate Policy in the Context of Geopolitical Transformations"