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Professor Korosteleva was invited to attend the 2025 Chatham House 'Security and Defence' conference held on 6 March 2025. The conference brought together over 600 global policymakers, senior military and armed forces figures, business leaders and civil society experts. Keynotes included Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK Zaluzhnyi, UK Ministers and NATO senior officials, high-level panel dialogues, and ‘under-the-Rule’ spotlights.

The 'From Baku to Belém' workshop, organised under the auspices of the Warwick Climate Governance and Policy Nexus (NEXUS), the Warwick Sustainability Spotlight, and the Climate Finance for Equitable Transition (CLiFT), took place as a platform for capacity building, policy advocacy, information dissemination, and networking. The event brought together academics, negotiators, policymakers, civil society groups, and representatives from bilateral and multilateral finance institutions.

Professor Korosteleva was invited to contribute a piece on resilience to the strategic volume of Key Concepts for the Future of the EU, published by the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS), 3 March 2025. The volume came together at the request of policy-makers, and covers key themes that the EU and global leadership will work with in 2025+, including geopolitics, resilience, security, democracy etc. It offers innovative and creative perspectives, to ensure that the challenges posited by complex geopolitics and the Anthropocene, are adequately considered, going forward. It is available for a free download.

Professor Korosteleva was invited by the Ambassador of Uzbekistan, H.E. Mr Ravshan Usmanov, to join the celebration of Naruz in London, on 22 February 2025. The event was organised by the UCL Uzbek and Kazakh Societies and the Central Asian Youth Alliance, held at Gordon Square, London, and hosted students, staff and dignitaries from Central Asia. Elena was delighted to find Warwick's students there too, represented on the photo. It was an important shocase of Central Asian tradition, music, dance, art, and cuisine.

Dr Aijan SharshenovaLink opens in a new window, SHAPEDEM-EULink opens in a new window Research Fellow, co-authored (with a Harvard University Research Fellow Dr Rahat Sabyrbekov) a large report on opportunities and barriers to introducing carbon pricing in the Kyrgyz Republic in Central Asia. The report employs mixed methods to estimate the possibility and the extent of difficulty to introduce such climate mitigation mechanism in a land-locked lower income country. The report is funded by the CAREC InstituteLink opens in a new window's research grant and is available online at https://www.carecinstitute.org/publications/exploring-carbon-pricing-in-central-asia-new-insights-from-the-kyrgyz-republic/