In fact, RNPLS&T has been acquiring literature in ecology since its establishment in 1958.
The subjects of “ecology’, “nature management”, “environmental protection”, “natural resources", "sustainable development” receive wide coverage in publications in technology and natural sciences.
Since 2003, RNPLS&T, in cooperation with other organizations, has been building the single ecological information data bank of Russian and the CIS libraries. Please review the information resources of RNPLS&T’s partner libraries at "The libraries’ Green Pages". The section Russian regions is updated on the regular basis and comprises materials on ecological situation in Russian Federation entities and links to the information resources in regional ecology.
The RNPLS&T’s Group of Ecology and Sustainable Development Projects organizes thematic exhibitions and displays, workshops, library lessons and other events. Within the annual World Professional Forum “Crimea” (before 2014, “Crimea” International Conference), the section on ecology information support and ecological education of population, and since 2018, the International Conference in Ecology are held. The problems of ecology and sustainable development also get coverage at LIBCOM Conference. The reviews of the events are available through the Library’s website.
On December 28, 2020 from 11.00 to 12.00 MSC webinar for librarians, museum and educational organizations workers working in the field of environmental education "The role of information in the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals" was be held.
The literature exhibition "Information support of environmental management" was opened at the RSLS&T in the Reading room for ecology, priority sciences and technology developments (room 210) from December 8, 2020 to January 30, 2021.
The All-Russian online conference (with international participation) "Libraries and Environmental Education: Theory and Practice" was held on October 28, 2020 at the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology.
More than 236 people (individual and group connections) from 108 settlements of the Russian Federation, as well as the Republics of Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Slovakia took part in it.
The state of the planet is broken. Humanity is waging war on nature. This, speaking at the online conference "State of the Planet", organized by Columbia University, said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.