Past Event
Brussels Policy Dialogue: Insights for EU and Member States’ Climate Agenda
The event is a policy dialogue organised under the project, 'COP21: Results and Implications for Pathways and Policies for Low Emissions European Societies'.
The COP21 outcome represents an important new strategic context for EU climate policy. Analysing the implications of this new context requires an interdisciplinary approach, combining analysis of the evolution of the international climate regime as well as of NDCs and their socio-economic implications.
Such analysis is also urgent, given the timelines imposed by the Paris Agreement for a “facilitative dialogue” in 2018 with a view to creating the conditions for the revision of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in 2020.
This Policy Dialogue will address the following questions:
- What are the socio-economic consequences of NDCs and deeper mitigation pathways for the EU and its Member States, key emerging economies and globally, particularly with regard to innovation and low emissions technology deployment; energy security; trade, energy-intensive industries, and competitiveness; investment, public and private financial flows; and economic growth (“green growth”), employment and distributional issues?
- What incentives and barriers do these socio-economic implications create for the implementation of NDCs and their revision towards achieving 2°C/1.5°C compatible trajectories?
COP21 RIPPLES provides a foundation for this discussion through an assessment of: a) national and global GHG and energy system scenarios, and b) the development of the international climate regime. It also provides the international enabling conditions. It will build essentially on inputs from the work conducted under three work packages of the project.
This event is open only to Bruegel’s members and a select group of experts.
Schedule
11:00-11:30
Check-in and welcome coffee
11:30-13:00
Session I - Is it smart to stick to current 2030 policies and approaches?
Presentations
Oliver Sartor, Senior Research Fellow, Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales (IDDRI)
Georg Zachmann, Senior Fellow
Comments
Artur Runge-Metzger, Director of International and Climate Strategy, DG CLIMA
Round table discussion
13:00-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:30
Session II - Country heterogeneity in the EU low-carbon transition
Presentation
Marta Torres-Gunfaus, Senior Research Fellow, Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales (IDDRI)
Comments
Petya Icheva, Head of Energy Team, Permanent Representation of Bulgaria to the EU
David Morales, Associate, Energy Systems & Governance at European Climate Foundation and Project Manager, independent NECP evaluation
Vincent Van Steenberghe, Climate Policy Expert, Belgian Federal Public Service for Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment
Round table discussion
15:30
End
Speakers
Petya Icheva
Head of Energy Team, Permanent Representation of Bulgaria to the EU
David Morales
Associate, Energy Systems & Governance at European Climate Foundation and Project Manager, independent NECP evaluation
Artur Runge-Metzger
Director of International and Climate Strategy, DG CLIMA
Oliver Sartor
Senior Research Fellow, Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales (IDDRI)
Marta Torres-Gunfaus
Senior Research Fellow, Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales (IDDRI)
Vincent Van Steenberghe
Climate Policy Expert, Belgian Federal Public Service for Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment
Georg Zachmann
Senior Fellow
Location & Contact
Katja Knezevic
[email protected]
