Second High-Level international conference

Sustainable
Development in Eurasia

29 May 2026, Astana

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On 29 May 2026, by decision of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Astana will host the Second High-level international conference «Sustainable Development in Eurasia». The conference will be organized by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University and MGIMO.

The Conference will bring together government officials and members of the corporate community, distinguished scientists and prominent public figures engaged in advancing the sustainable development agenda.

The Conference will focus on the progress and prospects of the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with particular attention to the role of multilateral cooperation.

Framework Theses

Lessons Learned and Signposts for the Next Development Agenda. Thought paper by Jorge Laguna-Celis

Synthesis of answers to the SHLC Questionnaire on Sustainable Development in Eurasia

Questionnaire
Dear participants of the Second High-Level International Conference "Sustainable Development in Eurasia"! To ensure a truly productive discussion and streamline the exchange of ideas, the conference working group - in charge of preparing the event and its outcome documents - invites you to share your insights through the following open ended questions.

The United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda Beyond 2030: Context and Challenges

The global community has entered the final stage of implementing the 2015–2025 Sustainable Development Agenda. In 2027, following discussions of the new Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) and formulating policy recommendations, work on the Post-2030 Agenda will begin. However, experts are already shifting their focus from the pathways to achieving the sustainable development goals and targets set by the UN a decade ago to future agenda. Is it necessary at all? Should the goals, targets and time frame, and, most importantly, the multilateral system underpinning their implementation, be revised — and, if so, how exactly?

We are convinced of the importance and relevance of this discussion. In late May this year, the Center for Sustainable Development and ESG Transformation at MGIMO University plans to present a report devoted to the analysis of this subject for discussion.

The preliminary results of the 2030 Agenda do not look very encouraging. According to the last year’s report, presented at the UN High-Level Political Forum, of the 169 measurable SDG targets, only 18% are expected to be achieved on time. Moderate progress has been noted for 17% of the goals, minor achievements for 31%, and 18% have seen a regression relative to the 2015 baseline. It also remains unclear to what extent the development gains recorded at the national level are attributable specifically to the adoption of the 2030 Agenda, and how much less significant they would have been in its absence.

However, despite the criticisms, a fundamental rejection of a system akin to the 2015–2030 SDG framework seems unfeasible . The majority of stakeholders are not interested in such a move, and its signaling effect would be strongly negative. At the same time, a number of issues concerning the future set of goals and targets remain to be resolved: the excessive number of targets; the need to ease the burden of national reporting; and the question of the final deadline: 2045 or 2050.

Greater attention must be given to digital development, artificial intelligence, and global health.

The Post-2030 Agenda should be more strongly oriented toward subnational and transnational development actors, as well as toward the private sector and civil society.

To date, the UN has focused on implementing the sustainable development agenda at the national level. Within the existing multilateral system, responsibility at the national level is inevitably limited, and accountability is difficult to ensure. The provision of means of implementation (finance, technology, infrastructure) – the central challenge of sustainable development at the global level – largely depends on interstate cooperation and supranational structures. International cooperation itself must become sustainable, as this is the core domain of UN responsibility. A shift in emphasis from the national to the global level is required.

The updated agenda should be oriented toward global catastrophic risks (rapid escalation of armed conflicts, climate change, pandemics, etc.). Security issues should be reflected to the extent that they are of concern to people.

It is necessary to consider new frameworks established since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda (the Paris Agreement of 2015; the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework of 2022; the Doha Political Declaration of the 2025 World Summit for Social Development; the Seville Commitment on Financing for Development of 2025 among others).

The transformation of the UN institutional system – and, more broadly, of all global governance institutions – and the evolution of the sustainable development agenda should be interconnected processes. The former should primarily be oriented toward ensuring the success of the latter.

BRICS, as a forum of leading non-Western countries, should find its place within the global governance system for sustainable development – especially now, when high-level engagement within the G7 and G20 in this area is effectively paralyzed. BRICS could move beyond merely defending the interests of developing countries in response to specific challenges (as is done, for example, in relation to supranational financial institutions or the Conferences of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Paris Agreement) and instead take the initiative.

The fight against inequality should be at the core of the Post-2030 Agenda. It is precisely the exacerbation of inequality that has been the most evident failure of the 2030 Agenda’s implementation. It is precisely the exacerbation of inequality that is generating political challenges in the Western world, threatening sustainable development. It is precisely the exacerbation of inequality that is driving the widening inequality gap between global leaders and laggards in sustainable development to a critical disparity, thereby undermining the entire strategy at the global level.

Greater emphasis must be placed on – and more detailed analysis devoted to – issues related to new paradigms of economic growth, the restructuring of international financial institutions, and the introduction of global taxation in the context of the transition to sustainable development. The findings of the recently established “Beyond GDP” expert group should be fully used, and the initiative to establish a standing Intergovernmental Expert Group on Inequality under UN auspices should be supported.

The concept of sustainable development, as consistently reflected in UN decisions over the past three and a half decades, took shape in the 1970s and 1980s. It can be argued that the work of the Brundtland Commission (1983–1987) continues to inform approaches to sustainable development within international institutions. At the same time, both the global reality itself and its scholarly interpretation have changed significantly since then. Considerable experience has been accumulated in attempts to implement sustainable development principles at all levels.

The time may now be ripe to launch, under UN auspices, a Sustainability 2.0 initiative along the lines of the World Commission on Environment and Development.  The views of scholars who argue that achieving the global sustainable development goals within an economy driven by imperatives of growth, commercialization and individualization - absent a fundamental transformation of modern capitalist institutions and their cultural, social and political architecture – require thorough consideration, if not full integration into a renewed “Our Common Future” project.

Posthumanist critiques should not be ignored. These argue that the fundamental cause of humanity’s catastrophic approach to planetary boundaries lies in an anthropocentric mindset, and that the situation calls not only for new behavioral models but for structural, fundamental changes – a profound rethinking of our relationship with the environment.

We are confident that a broad expert discussion of these issues could contribute to a more effective implementation of the global sustainable development agenda beyond 2030.

Invited to participate

Mohd Faiz Abdullah

Executive Chairman of Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia

Daron Acemoglu

Institute Professor at MIT

Leke Acha

Senior partner in McKinsey’s Johannesburg office, Chairman of McKinsey’s Africa region, and a member of McKinsey’s Shareholders Council, co-author of key chapters in the Foresight Africa 2026 report, and an expert on inclusive growth, Africa's leadership in a multipolar world, artificial intelligence, and economic shifts

Rahel Ahmed

former managing director and CEO of Prime Bank Ltd, Transformation leader and senior banking top manager

Romina Khurshid Alam

Member, National Assembly of Pakistan, Coordinator to the Prime Minister of Pakistan on Climate Change and Environmental Coordination

Ruddyard Febrian Alphyanto

Vice Minister of the National Development Planning Government of the Republic of Indonesia

Amitabh Kant

Independent Director, ITC Limited & Larsen & Toubro

Rasjid Arsjad

Chairman of the Board, Indonesian Business Council (IBC)

Rufat Azizov

Rector of Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University

Asiyat Bagatyrova

Chief Executive Officer of "Social Capital"

Brodjonegoro Bambang

Former Minister of Research and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, National Agency for Research and Innovation (the Dean and CEO of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI))

Ban Ki-moon

Chairman of the Board, Boao Forum for Asia

Olga Belo-Schetinina

Senior Advisor NSI / Group ADIT

Chacra Sergio Bitar

Senior Research Fellow at the Political Dialogue Initiative (Columbia University), Economist, and Expert on Inclusive Development in Latin America

Nicolas J.A. Buchoud

Co-founder and Chairman of the Grand Paris Alliance for Metropolitan Development and co-editor of the Intersecting international project (France and Germany))

Roy Edward Casagranda

Professor of Government at Austin Community College (ACC), Founder and president of the Austin School

Lord Valentine Cecil

Honorary President, Eastern Africa Association

Chaturverdi Sachin

Vice Chancellor of Nalanda University, expert on global development, South-South cooperation, and sustainable development

Jonathan Chenoweth

Associate Professor, MSc Programme Director, University of Surrey

Bunnag Chol

Associate Professor at Thammasat University, expert in integrating the SDGs into education and policy

Asan Darbaev

Vice Minister of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Thierry de Montbrial

Founder and President of the French Institute for International Relations (IFRI), Chairman of the World Policy Conference

Valérie Ducrot

Executive Director of the Global Gas Center

Martin Ford

Board Member at Genesis Systems LLC

Michele Geraci

Former Undersecretary of State, Italian Ministry of Economic Development; Adjunct Professor of Finance, NYU Shanghai

Christopher Gerry

Rector, Dean of the Graduate School of Development, Full Professor at the University of Central Asia

Eduardo Giannetti

Professor, Insper São Paulo

Ha-Joon Chang

Professor of Economics at SOAS University of London

Thomas Helbling

Deputy Director, Asia Pacific Department, IMF

Nguyen Hieu

President of Vietnam National University, Hanoi

Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda

Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), expert on political economy, regional integration, and global development in Latin America

Yiping Huang

Peking University, Dean of the National School of Development

Hyo-Jeong So

Professor, Ewha Womans University

Mmakie Janthies

Lead: Innovation and Transformation, Telkom South Africa

Vuk Jeremic

President of the 67th General Assembly of the United Nations, President of the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD)

Tang Jian

Vice President and Secretary General of the China Reform and Development Entrepreneurship Society

Sherif Kamel

Dean, School of Business Onsi Sawiris, The American University in Cairo

Tatyana Kastueva-Zhan

Director of the IFRI Russia/Eurasia Center

Erzhan Kazykhanov

Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva

Al Mubarak Razan Khalifa

President of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), global leader in nature conservation and climate action in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region

Sofya Khalikova

Executive Secretary of the Youth Council attached to the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Relations with International Organisations on the Achievement of the SDGs

Asad M. Khan

Secretary General of Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO)

Kim Yoosuk

President, CHEY Institute for Advanced Studies & Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies

Evgenia Kondrakhina

Chair of the Commission on Sustainable Development and the Environment, United Nations Association of Russia

Sergei Kononuchenko

Foreign Minister’s Special Representative for Climate

Dmitriy Konov

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Science Foundation

Alex Krainer

Founder of Krainer Analytics and I-System Trend Following

Thanyaporn Krichtitayawuth

Executive Director of the UN Global Compact Network Thailand

Animesh Kumar

Assistant Professor at the Centre for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade

Clifford Kupchan

Chairman of Eurasia Group

Francesco La Camera

Director General, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

Jorge Laguna-Celis

Director of the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) One Planet Network

Signé Landry

Senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program and the Africa Growth Initiative at the Brookings Institution

Zheng Li

Dean, Tsinghua University Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Mabel Lu Miao

Co-founder and Secretary-General of the Center for China and Globalization (CCG)

Kishore Mahbubani

Founding Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School

Mohieldin Mahmoud

Expert on climate finance, co-author of the ideas of the ‘Borrower’s Club’ for the Global South, and UN Special Envoy for Sustainable Finance

Igor Makarov

HSE University Associate Professor

Artem Malgin

First Vice-rector of MGIMO University

Grigori Marchenko

Advisor to the Chairman of the Management Board of the Eurasian Development Bank

Dmiry Mariyasin

Deputy Executive Secretary of UN Economic Commission For Europe (UNECE)

Mariana Mazzucato

Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value; Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose

Rachel McDonnell

Deputy Director General – Research for Development, International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Anton Mifsud-Bonnici

Senior Adviser of Marlow Global

Kubayi Mikatekiso

Senior Researcher, South African Research Chair on African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy, University of Johannesburg (South Africa)

Branko Milanovic

Visiting Presidential Professor at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)

Milena Stretenovna Milich

Governor’s Special Representative for Climate and Sustainable Development in the Sakhalin Region

Marc Morgan

Research fellow of the World Inequality Lab in the Paris School of Economic

Elena Myakotnikova

Chair of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Council on Sustainable Business Development, Corporate Social Responsibility and Volunteering

Narendra Taneja

Chairman of the independent Energy Policy Institute, a New Delhi think tank

Lootah Abdulla Nasser

Deputy Minister of Cabinet Affairs for Competitiveness and Knowledge Exchange for the UAE Ministry of Cabinet Affairs, Chairman of the UAE National Sustainable Development Goals Committee

Nilanjan Ghosh

Head of Development Studies at Observer Research Foundation

Kako Nubukpo

Professor of Economics at University of Lomé (Togo)

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Director-General of the WTO

Mari Pangestu

Vice Chair, National Economic Council, Indonesia; Former Minister of Trade; Former Managing Director at World Bank

Supachai Panitchpakdi

Chairman of the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI)

Aleksandr Pankin

Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation

Lukáš Parízek

Chairman of the Council of Slovak Exporters

Danucha Pichayanan

Secretary General of the National Economic and Social Development Council

Thomas Piketty

Professor of Economics and Economic History at the Paris School of Economics

Eksiri Pintaruchi

Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand

Bakhtiyor Pulatov

Rector of Green University

Sarango Radnaragcha

UN Resident Coordinator in Kazakhstan

Noah Raford

Futurist; formerly Dubai Future Foundation

Kevin David Roberts

President of The Heritage Foundation

František Ruzicka

Deputy Secretary-General, OECD

Jeffrey David Sachs

Professor at Columbia University

Ekaterina Salugina-Sorokovaya

First Vice-President of Gazprombank (JSC)

Nishtar Sania

CEO of Gavi, (the Vaccine Alliance), an internationally acclaimed public health, equality and development expert

Hamza Saoudi

Senior Economist at the Policy Center for the New South (PCNS)

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

Director General of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Claudia Job Schmitt

Professor at the University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), Leading Researcher at the Food Equity Centre

Stacy Sinclair

Partner, Fenwick Elliott LLP

Andrey Slepnev

Member of the Board - Minister in charge of Trade​ of the Eurasian Economic Commission

Vera Songwe

Co-Chair of the High-Level Panel on Climate Finance

Devi Sridhar

Professor in Global Public Health, Lecturer in Global Health Politics, University of Edinburgh

Rebecca Fatima Sta Maria

Former Executive Director of the APEC Secretariat; Director of Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs IDEAS, Malaysia

Natalya Stapran

Director of the "Third Rome" Centre for Interdisciplinary Expertise at the Presidential Academy

Edward Stawiarski

political researcher

Arvind Subramanian

Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) and Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development (CGD)

Sergey Svetsov

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Moscow Exchange

Boris Titiov

Special Presidential Envoy for Relations with International Organizations to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals

Anatoly Torkunov

Rector of MGIMO University

Aleksandr Tolparov

Head of the GECF Secretary General Office

Tran Thanh Tuan Pham Tung

Leader of the 2025-2026 Obama Foundation Leaders of the Asia-Pacific Region program, expert on sustainable development and leadership in Asia

Marcos Troyjo

Co-Director of the BRICLab at Columbia University

Trung Do Thanh

Economist and speaker on global development and sustainability in Vietnam, Deputy Minister of Finance of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Alimzhan Turar

Director of the Department of Renewable Energy Sources of the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Elaine Ubalijoro

CEO, Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF); CEO, ICRAF

Sinan Ülgen

Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Janis Urbanovic

President of the NGO Baltic Forum

Vinod Kumar Paul

Member of the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog)

Alex Walsh

Indipendent researcher

Huiyao Wang

Founder and President of Center for China and Globalization (CCG)

Lord Jd Waverley

Founder of MSME World

Katarzyna Wawiernia

UNDP Resident Representative in Kazakhstan

Johannes Wiegand

Director, IMF Shanghai Center

Richard D. Wolff

Professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

Bu Xu

Chair Professor at Jiangsu University and former President of the China Institute of International Studies

Alexandr Yakovenko

Deputy Director-General of the "Russia Today" Media Group

Mikhail Yulkin

Chief Executive Officer of "CarbonLab"

Muhammad Yunus

Bangladeshi economist and statesman, Chairman of Yunus Centre, Founder and Managing Director of Grameen Bank

Igor Yurgens

Director of the Center for Sustainable Development and ESG Transformation at MGIMO (ICSD)

Nudhara Yusuf

Executive Coordinator of the Global Governance Innovation Network (GGIN) at the Stimson Center

Nurlan Zhakupov

Chairman of the Management Board, JSC “Sovereign Welfare Fund “Samruk-Kazyna”

Nurgul Zhannazarova

Director of the Department for Development of the Social Sphere, Law Enforcement, and Special Agencies, Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Houlin Zhao

Honorary Chairman of the Global Digital Economy Cities Alliance; Former Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Yongnian Zheng

Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Taidong Zhou

Vice President, Center for International Knowledge on Development (CIKD)

Program

29 May (Friday)

8:30-10:00

The Presidential Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 1A Alikhan Bokeikhan Street

Registration. Welcome coffee

10:00-11:30

Inaugural Session

Moderator: Mr. Sayasat Nurbek, Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Opening remarks by the co-organisers:

— Mr. Yerlan Sydykov, Rector, L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University; Member, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan

— Mr. Anatoly Torkunov, Rector, MGIMO University; Member, Russian Academy of Sciences


— Mr. Assan Darbayev, Vice Minister, National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan)

— Ms. Sarangoo Radnaaragchaa, UN Resident Coordinator in Kazakhstan (Mongolia)

— Ms. Katarzyna Wawiernia, Resident Representative in Kazakhstan, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (Poland)

— Mr. Thierry de Montbrial, Founder and Executive Chairman, French Institute of International Relations (Ifri); Chairman, World Policy Conference (France)

— Mr. Boris Titov, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Relations with International Organizations on the Sustainable Development Goals (Russia)

— Mr. Vuk Jeremić, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia 2007-2012, President of the 67th Session of the United Nations General Assembly; President, Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD) (Serbia)

— Mr. Nurlan Zhakupov, Chairman of the Management Board, JSC “Sovereign Welfare Fund “Samruk-Kazyna” (Kazakhstan)

11:30-11:45

Coffee break. Press approach

11:45-13:15

Session I “The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development:
Progress in the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”

Moderator: Mr. Igor Yurgens, Director of the Centre for Sustainable Development at MGIMO (Russia)

Participants:

— Mr. Mansur Oshurbaev, Vice Minister of Ecology of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan)

— Mr. Miroslav Lajčák, President of the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly; Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic 2009-2010 and 2012-2020 (Slovakia)

— Mr. Dmiry Mariyasin, Deputy Executive Secretary of UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) (Russia)

— Mr. Dmitry Konov, Member, Board of Trustees of the Russian Science Foundation (Russia)

— Ms. Anna Joubin-Bret, Secretary, United Nations Commission for International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) (France)

— Ms. Nurgul Zhannazarova, Director of the Department of Social Policy and Development of State Bodies, Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan)

— Mr. Animesh Kumar, Associate Professor at the WTO Research Centre, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (India)

— Mr. Jorge Rene Laguna Celis, Non-Resident Fellow, Center for International Cooperation (NYU); Head, One Planet Network (Mexico)

13:15-13:50

Lunch

13:50-15:20

Session II “Prospects for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) beyond 2030”

Moderator: Mr. Vuk Jeremić, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia 2007-2012, President of the 67th Session of the UN General Assembly, President of the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD) (Serbia)

— Mr. Nurlan Aldamzharov, Vice Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan)

— Mr. Chol Bunnag, Assistant Professor, Thammasat University; thought leader on the integration of the SDGs into education and policy (Thailand)

— Mr. Hamza Saoudi, Senior Economist, Policy Center for the New South (PCNS) (Morocco)

— Mr. Mikatekiso Kubayi, Senior Researcher, South African Research Chair on African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy, University of Johannesburg (South Africa)

— Mr. Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); expert on political economy, regional integration and global development in Latin America (Mexico)

— Mr. Nicolas Buchoud, Co-founder and Chairman, Grand Paris Alliance for Metropolitan Development; Co-editor, Intersecting International Project (France and Germany)

— Mr. Igor Makarov, Head of the School of World Economy, Director of the Institute for the Economics of Natural Resources and Climate Change, HSE University (Russia)

15:20-15:40

Coffee break

15:40-16:40

Spotlight Session “Energy for Sustainable Development”

Moderator: Ms. Valérie Ducrot, Executive Director, Global Gas Centre (Switzerland)

— Mr. Alimzhan Turar, Director of the Department of renewable energy sources, Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan)

— Mr. Eran Edirisinghe, Dean of Research, University of Central Asia (United Kingdom)

— Mr. Habil Ahmed Khan, Chief Executive Officer, Welt Konnect (Pvt) Ltd (Pakistan)

16:40-18:10

Session III “Challenges and Risks to the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”
Closing of the plenary segment

Moderator: Mr. Artem Malgin, First Vice-Rector, MGIMO University

— Mr. Grigoriy Marchenko, Adviser to the Chairman of the Board, Eurasian Development Bank; Former Chairman, National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan)

— Lord J.D. Waverley, Founder, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) World (United Kingdom)

— Mr. Clifford Kupchan, Сhairman and Director of research, Eurasia Group (USA)

— Mr. Janis Urbanovic, President, NGO Baltic Forum (Latvia)

— Mr. Igor Yurgens, Director of the Centre for Sustainable Development, MGIMO (Russia)

Сapstone speech: Mr. Jeffrey Sachs, President, United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network; SDG Advocate for United Nations Secretary General (USA) (online)

20:00-22:00

Open-air reception (Rixos President Astana)

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Logistics Information

Venue

The conference will take place at the Presidential Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Astana, 1a Bokeykhana Street) on May 29.

Accommodation

International participants will be accommodated at the Rixos President Astana Hotel at the expense of the organizers from May 27 to May 30, 2026.

Participants from Kazakhstan shall arrange their own accommodation.

Visa Policy

Kazakhstan offers visa-free entry for citizens of many countries, Please check the policy regarding your country on the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Visa Support

If you require visa support, please contact our team at astana.esg@gmail.com

Contacts

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