International workshop and special issue on Climate and Energy Governance and the Future of Europe
30 Sept – 1 Oct 2019 at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Rome
International workshop and special issue on Climate and Energy Governance and the Future of Europe
30 Sept – 1 Oct 2019 at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Rome
An international workshop building on a previous GOVTRAN call for papers for a special issue on Climate and Energy Governance and the Future of Europe. The event by is invitation only, but we do have some flexibility for external participants. For more information contact govtran@govtran.eu
We have invited authors of 15 different papers to present their work, examining recent developments in EU climate and energy governance and policy in the context of the challenges and opportunities raised by the EU ‘crisis conglomerate’. We are particularly interested in exploring five main underlying factors: implications of geo-political power shifts, growing challenges of democratic legitimacy and accountability, declining national problem-solving capacity, increasing divisions within and among nation-states/EU Member States, and changing parameters of political discourse in times of social and privatized mass media.
The Special Issue will possibly be published with the Journal of European Public Policy.
Workshop programme
Day 1
09.30-09.45 Welcome and opening of the workshop
09.45-10.45 Session 1: Setting the Scene (Chair: Sebastian Oberthür)
Concept/introductory paper: Exploring the interplay between EU climate and energy governance and European integration in turbulent times
Discussion
10.45-11.15 Coffee
11.15-13.00 Session 2 (Chair: Andrew Jordan)
Paper: The challenge of populism to European climate governance: Populist government participation and greenhouse gas emissions in the EU member states (Jahn)
Discussant: Silvia Weko
Paper: Are populist politics a challenge for Europe’s climate policy: exploring the mechanisms and empirical examples (Huber et al.)
Discussant: Sebastian Strunz
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Keynote address and debate: The Future of EU Climate and Energy Governance
Luca de Carli, Head of Unit ‘Legal Affairs, Inter-Institutional Relations & Communications’, European Commission, DG CLIMA
15.30-16.00 Coffee
16.00-18.00 Session 3 (Chair: Ingmar Von Homeyer)
Paper: Blockades in Brussels? Energy and climate decision-making in the European Parliament and the role of central and eastern European member states (Buzogany/Ćetković)
Discussant: Felix Schenuit
Paper: The impact of political changes and multiple crises on the European Parliament’s climate discourse (Petri/Biedenkopf)
Discussant: Stefan Ćetković
Paper: Security, energy poverty and the East-West divide: European attitudes towards climate change (Weko)
Discussant: Aron Buzogany
19.30-21:30 Dinner, Il Margutta, via Margutta 118, 00187 Rome
Day 2
09.30-11.00 Session 4 (Chair: Andrew Jordan)
Paper: Enhancing resilience, or continuing complacency? The constrained development of the EU Adaptation Strategy (Rayner)
Discussant: Irina Kustova
Paper: International EU leadership on climate change revisited (Dupont/Oberthür)
Discussant: Marco Siddi
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-13.00 Session 5 (Chair: Tim Rayner)
Paper: Neither ‘race to the bottom’ nor ‘race to the top’: Does the EU integration lead to more ambitious renewable energy deployment? (Strunz et al.)
Discussant: Katharine Rietig
Paper: Accelerating transitions to low-carbon economies via the EU budget despite turbulent times (Rietig)
Discussant: Tim Rayner
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15:30 Session 6 (Chair: Ingmar von Homeyer)
Paper: Different speeds of acknowledgement: Carbon dioxide removal in the EU’s multilevel system (Schenuit)
Discussant: Detlef Jahn
Paper: The evolution of EU approaches to international energy governance: from a minimum standard principe to the export of the EU’s market model (Kustova/Siddi)
Discussant: Franziska Petri
15.30-16.00 Coffee
16.00-17.00 Wrap-up, overall insights and next steps (Chair: Sebastian Oberthür)
input by Andrew Jordan
