Policy Outreach Events

Join us on February 14, 2023, from 04:00-05:30 PM (CET) / 10:00-11:30 AM (EST) for the eleventh EAERE/CEPR Webinar on Climate Policy! A roundtable discussion with Joseph Aldy (Harvard University & Resources For The Future), Michael Greenstone (University of Chicago, CEPR & Climate Change RPN Member), Robert Stavins (Harvard University, Resources For The Future & Climate Change RPN Associate Fellow). The roundtable and Q&A session with the audience will be moderated by Christian Gollier (Toulouse School of Economics, EAERE, CEPR & Climate Change RPN Leader).

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EU Green Deal needs to be informed at the best available science. JPI Climate organizes the Equinox Summit in BRX to celebrate European Climate Science and launch a European scientific assessment and stocktaking process to address climate resilience, climate neutrality and societal transformation.

We recognise the urgency of actions to address the causes and consequences of climate change as manifested by the recent extreme drought during Summer 2022. Actions in response and to prevent disasters need to be informed by the best available science, whose strategic focus now includes the acceleration of the development and transfer of climate knowledge from research and innovation to policy and decision making in support of climate actions.

For this JPI Climate with the support of MAGICA project is proposing a new European structure which addresses strategic gaps, and which will significantly enhance the profile and use of the outcomes from European investments in research and systematic observations. This envisions a European scientific assessment/stocktaking process, that is focused on three key interlinked challenges i.e. achievement of
1. Climate neutrality
2. Climate resilience and
3. Management of transition and societal transformation (social & economic)

Frank Mc Govern, Chair of the JPI Climate will present the initiative and will dialogue with high level representatives of EU Member States, Academia and financing actors.

SPEAKERS

Simone Borghesi, EAERE President-Elect, Director FSR Climate, EUI and University of Siena
Marinella Davide, Ca’ Foscari University, Harvard University, CMCC and SISC
Phoebe Koundouri, EAERE President, AUEB, Co-Chair UN SDSN Europe
Terhi Lehtonen, State Secretary at Finnish Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change
Markus Müller, Managing Director, Chief Investment Officer ESG & Global Head of Chief Investment Office, Deutsche Bank
Eamon Ryan, Irish Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications
Massamba Thioye, Executive, Cimate Change Innovation Hub, UNFCCC
Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, Professor of Environmental Sciences at the UCLouvain and Belgian candidate for the IPCC Chair position

Chairperson of the session: Frank McGovern – JPI Climate, Chair

The Side Event at COP27 – Launching a European Climate Science Assessment Mechanism for Policy Support will be held on November 17, 2022 16:45-18:15pm EET time (15:45-17:15pm CET time), Room: Tutankhamun (100).

The side event will be livestreamed on the official COP27 YouTube channel. For those attending on site, please kindly note that the side event will be located  in the Blue Zone where a specific UNFCCC accreditation is needed.

Join us on 25 October 2022 from 5:00 to 6:30 pm CET to hear from Tilman Requate (University of Kiel) reviewing the relationships between imperfect markets and sustainability, Roman Inderst (University of Frankfurt and CEPR) discussing the conditions under which antitrust exemptions can improve sustainability, and Maarten Pieter Schinkel (University of Amsterdam) presenting methods and rules protecting competition to promote sustainability. Their presentations will be followed by a discussion on the effectiveness of competition policy involving sustainability issues, moderated by Marc Ivaldi (Toulouse School of Economics, EHESS and CEPR) and a Q&A session with the audience.

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The targets of the European Green Deal require a substantial reduction of oil and gas imports even before 2030. However, institutions and policy instruments which would enable the EU to implement their targets are still weak. The planned ETS for road transport and buildings will be likely implemented with a price cap; so far, the EU has not been able to coordinate the purchases of member states at the international oil and gas market; the diversification of gas and oil imports remains a high priority. The panel will discuss strategic options for EU’s climate policy and energy security.

Join us on September 13, 2022 from 5:30 to 7:00 pm (CET) for a roundtable discussion with:

Veronika Grimm (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Philippe Martin (Sciences Po, French Council of Economic Analysis and CEPR)

Georg Zachmann (Bruegel)

The roundtable and Q&A session with the audience will be moderated by Ottmar Edenhofer (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Mercator Research Institute on Global Common and Climate Change, and CEPR).

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The Climate Policy Webinar Series (CPWS) is a webinar series featuring invited speakers in the area of climate policy. It is aimed at experts working in governments, international organisations, the private sector, academics and the media. The monthly online series started in May 2021 and is organised jointly by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Research and Policy Network (RPN) on Climate Change and the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE).

Organisers:

Carlo Carraro (Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia and CEPR)
Ottmar Edenhofer (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)
Christian Gollier (Toulouse School of Economics and CEPR)

The session was chaired by Simone Borghesi (EAERE POC and EUI) with E. Somanathan (Indian Statistical Institute/CECFEE), Michael Spence (Stanford, 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics) and Beatriz Yordi (European Commission).

The video recording of the event is available here

As part of its Fit-for-55 package, the European Commission proposed the strengthening of emission trading and the creation of a separate ETS for buildings and road transport (BRT ETS), combined with a new Social Climate Fund to address its social impacts. While extending carbon pricing to sectors not yet covered is an obvious choice from an economic point of view, it is very contentious politically. Particularly important open questions are (a) how high and volatile the price in the new system will be, and related (b) what the distributional implications between households and Member States will be. The aim of this session is to shed light on these issues drawing on new economic analysis, and based on this to discuss the mechanisms proposed by the EC to stabilize prices and balance distributional impacts. To that end, the session will bring together (national and EU) policy makers and academics, including members of EAERE’s Policy Outreach Committee (POC). More broadly, the session will also reflect on insights for policy outreach.

Panelists

The transition to net zero emissions by 2050 could hinder environmental and biodiversity conservation. EAERE promotes the research-policy interface by examining this issue from an energy, marine and land-use standpoint. This provides the science-based framework to analyse the key role that renewable assets, reporting standards and sustainable finance can play to drive a sustainable transition.

PROGRAMME:

Climate neutrality, energy transition and biodiversity : synergies, trade offs and policy instruments

Simone Borghesi  –  Director Florence School of Regulation Climate, European University Institute and University of Siena, Italy

Bringing climate, biodiversity and other ecosystem services into policy and economic decision making

Ian Bateman  –  OBE, US-NAS, FBA, FRSA, FRSB, Director: Land, Environment, Economics & Policy Institute (LEEP), University of Exeter Business School, UK

Sustainable Blue Growth: Science Driven Marine Spatial and Dynamic Planning

Phoebe Koundouri  –  President-Elect, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science, Director ReSEES Research Laboratory, Athens University of Economics and Business

GRI Standard for biodiversity

Peter Paul van de Wijs  –  Chief External Affairs Officer, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
Harold Pauwels  –  Director Standards, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)

The importance of biodiversity for investors

Shane Swords  –  Managing Director, Head of Investor Relations, NextEnergyCapital

NextEnergyCapital and solar’s role in achieving climate neutrality and improved biodiversity

Michael Bonte-Friedheim  –  Founding Partner & Group Chief Executive Officer, NextEnergyCapital

Protecting life diversification through standards and nature-based solutions

Markus H.-P. Müller, Managing Director, Global Head of Chief Investment Office Private Bank, Deutsche Bank

The EU Hybrid Side Event at COP26 – Climate Neutrality and Biodiversity: renewables assets, reporting standards and sustainable finance will take place on November 3, 2021 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM CET time.
In order to participate, register here
The event in presence will take place in Room 3.G.5 of the EU Pavilion in Glasgow Scottish Event Campus – Exhibition Way – Glasgow G3 8YW.

Video recording available here