The Center’s comments to the UNCITRAL materials
On July 12-13, 2023, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) held the Colloquium on Climate Change and the Law of International Trade, in which the Center’s experts are participating.
The UNCITRAL Colloquium focused on various aspects of climate change mitigation, adaptation and resilience to its effects, in order to, inter alia, identify gaps and legal obstacles within the applicable regulation, discuss the most important issues of further development of the mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement in the context of international trade law, as well as to compare notes regarding the work of various intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations in this field.
Before of the 56th session, which takes place in Vienna, the ICLRC as an observer submitted its comments to two Secretariat’s notes (A/CN.9/1120, A/CN.9/1120. Add.1), which concerned, inter alia, the terminology of the carbon market and differences in the approaches of the EAEU member States to definition of the legal regime of carbon assets.
The Center’s comments were published among the documents for consideration at the 56th session of the Commission.
The Center’s experts proposed, in the context of common climate efforts, to take into account the difference in approaches to determining the legal regime of carbon assets, to pay attention to a number of legal problems of the functioning of carbon markets, as well as to take into account these and some other aspects in the work on harmonization of approaches to achieve such goals.
The Commission will consider the results of the Colloquium and the documents during the third week of its session.
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In 2008 graduated from St. Petersburg State University (bachelor’s degree).
In 2010 received The Master’s degree in St. Petersburg State University (Civil, Family, International Private Law).
Since 2008 till 2020 she worked in the Presidential Domestic Policy Directorate of the Presidential Executive Office.
Since 2013 to present — Senior Lecturer of the Department of Civil Law and Procedure of the Higher School of Economics Saint Petersburg School of Law.
Since July 2020, she started working in the International and Comparative Law Research Center. Olga coordinates the private law analysis of drafts of legal acts and international instruments developed by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law and the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law. She prticipates in events on the topics of the Center's work (private international law, contract law, digitalization of trade, experimental legal regulation, etc.).
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Mr. Sitnikov has specialized in supporting climate projects, consulting on carbon markets, carbon trading and ESG since 2004. Sergey was actively involved in the work on the Russian federal and regional carbon regulations. In 2022 he participated in the work of the Article 6.4 Supervisory Body (COP27, Sharm El-Sheikh). Mr. Sitnikov advised, among other things, major Russian and international companies on the implementation of climate projects in Russia and abroad, as well as the regulator on various issues of climate regulation. Since 2014 Sergey Sitnikov has been annually recognized by independent international and Russian legal ratings as a leading lawyer in the "Environmental Law" field. Since 2008 till 2019 Mr. Sitnikov acted as a Visiting Professor at Moscow State Institute of International Relationship (MGIMO), International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, with his course of lectures related to various energy and carbon regulation issues. Sergey Sitnikov is the author and co-author of a number of scientific researches and books, including: - The Oxford Handbook of International Climate Change Law. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016; - Civil Law Regulation of Oil Transportation by Pipelines: Acute Issues, YusticInform, Moscow, 2012; - Climate Change Liability. Transnational Law and Practice, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2012; - Energy Law in Russia and Germany. Comparative Law Research, Yurist publishing group, Moscow, 2011; - Trading In Air: Mitigating Climate Change Through the Carbon Markets, Infotropic Media, Moscow, 2010 and of numerous practice-oriented articles on carbon regulation and ESG, including: - “Implementation of climate projects in the field of waste management”, TBO. Waste Management Scientific Journal, April, 2023; - “Road map of the ESG-strategy. How to start a company transformation”, Corporate Lawyer Journal, February, 2023; - “Carbon regulation in Russia: origins and peculiarities.”, The Eurasian Scientific Journal, 14(6): 44ECVN622. Available at: https://esj.today/PDF/44ECVN622.pdf; - “Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism”, Industry Ecology Journal, November, 2021; - “20 Steps on the Way to ESG-Transformation”, Industry Ecology Journal, December, 2021; - “Emission trading scheme as an alternative to the modern system of normatives”, Industry Ecology Journal, August 2016; - “New Procedure for Joint Implementation Projects in Russia”, Thomson Reuters Russia/Eurasia Executive Guide, December 2011; - “Money Out of Thin Air”, RBCC Bulletin, Issue 2, March 2010; - “Russia's new JI rules could break logjam”, “Point Carbon”, November 2009; - “Who Owes Whom? Legal Schemes of JI Projects' Implementation in Russia: Analysis and Recommendations”, Mirovaya Energetika No.1, 2008; - “Investors Get the Green Light”, Mirovaya Energetika, No.8, 2007; - “The potential for generating and selling Voluntary Emission Reductions in associated oil gas projects”, Oil, Gas & Law, No.6, 2007; - “Keys to the Carbon Transactions”, Delovoi Ekologicheski Journal, No.2, 2007; - “Agreement for Transportation of Oil by Pipeline: Theories and Practice of Drafting and Usage”, Oil, Gas & Law, No.4, 2007; - “Pledge of Oil, Transported through System of Pipelines”, Pravo I Ekonomika, #3, 2007; - “Pledge of Oil Transported by Pipelines,” The Oil, Gas and Law Journal, 2005, No.1; - “Civil Law Aspects of the Transportation of Oil Using Pipelines,” The Oil, Gas and Law Journal, 2004, No.4.