Video viEUws.eu: Did Paris deliver the low-carbon investment signal Europe needs? | LIVE PANEL DEBATE
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-Live debate “Did Paris deliver the low-carbon investment signal Europe needs?” on Wednesday 22 June at 12pm CET
Europe has embarked on an ambitious carbon market reform. Before the summer, the European Commission will propose national emission reduction targets for non-ETS sectors. A transport decarbonisation strategy is due at the same time and an innovation plan will follow in November. So all is well? In reality, both the carbon price and renewables investments are not what they should be in Europe and its goals and actions to date - as for many other countries - remain far from what is needed to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius. Join us in this debate to mark the launch of Statoil’s latest Energy Perspectives to 2040 to discuss with the IEA and EU i policymakers exactly what track Europe is on for, possible futures, and where that investment signal will finally come from.
The Panellists
Jos Delbeke
Director General for Climate Action, European Commission
Jos Delbeke joined the European Commission in 1986. He initially focused on market-based instruments, cost-benefit analysis and the new chemicals legislation REACH (1994-1998), before becoming the European Commission’s chief negotiator at the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (1999-2003). Deputy Director-General of DG Environment (2008-2010), Jos Delbeke has become Director General for Climate Action in February 2010.
Fredrick Federley i MEP - TBC
Fredrick Federley was elected Member of the European Parliament in May 2014, defeating the incumbent Center Party MEP, Kent Johansson. Federley is the team leader of the ALDE Group MEPs in the Committee on Industry , Research and Energy (ITRE) . He is also a deputy in both the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI) and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI). He is also Vice-Chair of the Delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament.
Nick Mabey
Chief Executive, Founder Director, Third Generation Environmentalism (E3G )
Nick Mabey is Chief Executive and a Founder director of Third Generation Environmentalism (E3G). He was previously a Senior Advisor in the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit leading work on national and international policy areas, including energy, climate change, countries at risk of instability, organised crime, and fisheries. He was employed in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Environment Policy Department and was the FCO lead for the Johannesburg Summit in 2002 where he established international partnerships on clean energy, tourism, and environmental democracy. Before Mabey joined government he was Head of Economics and Development at WWF-UK. He came to WWF from research at London Business School on the economics of climate change. This followed a period in the UK electricity industry working as a negotiator for PowerGen and an engineer for GEC-Alsthom. He trained as a mechanical engineer at Bristol University and holds a masters degree in Technology and Policy from MIT where he specialised in energy systems analysis. Among other appointments Nick Mabey is currently on the advisory board of Infrastructure UK, the independent commission reporting to the UK Conservative Party on the design of a Green Investment Bank, and the Advisory Council of the European Technology Platform for Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power.
Eirik Wærness
Chief Economist and Vice President, Statoil
Chief Economist and Vice President in Statoil, has a broad experience from government, academics and private sector companies. In the period 2010-2013 he served as member of the Executive Board of the Central Bank of Norway. From 2014 he is a member of World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Oil & Gas. His experience includes different positions in the Norwegian Ministry of Finance, Total E&P Norway, Pöyry Management Consulting/Econ Centre for Economic Analysis, in addition to Statoil. He has also served as member of two public commissions/expert groups on tax reforms.
Moderated by leading Environment journalist Sonja van Renssen.