Guidelines of JSC “Russian Railways” in the Strategy of Sustainable Development

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Guidelines of JSC “Russian Railways” in the Strategy of Sustainable Development

Chechenova, Liana

Objective: To set guidelines for Russian Railways within the framework of the main sustainable development goals 9 “Industrialization, Innovation and infrastructure”, 11 “Sustainable cities and human settlements”, 13 “Combating climate change”, 17 “Partnership for Sustainable Development”. The methodology is based on the analysis of existing approaches and evaluation criteria for ESG components with the use of analytical methods for determining the causal dependence of the Russian railway transport development strategy. The work is carried out taking into account the current state of the railway economy of the Russian Federation in terms of the principles of sustainable development and is based on the analysis of the reporting documentation of transport organizations and data of JSC “Russian Railways”, indicated in the Concept of financing Sustainable Development Projects. The assessment of the guidelines of JSC “Russian Railways” in the strategy of sustainable development with the justification of priorities and criteria for development is given. The limits of compliance of the railway transport development strategy of the Russian Federation with the goals of sustainable growth with the correlation of national projects, state programs and strategic goals for the development of the transport complex of the Russian Federation are established. The analysis confirms the possibility of using the main results of the study in making decisions on the sustainable development of infrastructure sectors of the economy and, in particular, transport to attract investment in projects for the development of main infrastructure with long implementation periods and a low rate of return.