Opening keynote - 15 September 11.30-12.30 CET
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Keynote by Mr. Diederik Samsom, Head of Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans – European Green Deal, and Commissioner for Climate Action
Policy
The European Commission released its legislative proposals for implementing the EU’s enhanced greenhouse gas emission reduction target of at least 55% by 2030 in July 2021 – also known
as the “Fit for 55 package”. These will amend and complement the major cornerstones of the EU’s existing climate and energy legislation, including the emissions trading system, emission standards for cars and vans, land use/forestry, renewable energy and energy
efficiency. This legislative package will complement the European Climate Law adopted in spring 2021 and also provide the baseline for the subsequent consideration of the EU’s further emission and policy trajectory towards achieving climate neutrality by 2050
(and negative emissions thereafter).
This keynote will reflect on the broader repercussions of the legislative package and the EU’s move to climate neutrality in times that are characterised by increasing turbulence in
Europe and beyond. What are the implications of the Fit for 55 package for existing socio-political divisions across Europe and for the broader legitimacy challenges that the EU is facing? What are the possible/likely effects on the EU’s broader role in the
world in the face of continuing geopolitical shifts and rising great-power competition? What features of the Fit for 55 package are key so that EU climate governance can best help address these broader internal and external challenges?
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SPEAKERS
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Speaker: Diederik Samsom, Head of Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans – European Green Deal, and Commissioner for Climate Action Policy, European Commission
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Discussant: Claire Dupont, Assistant Professor of European and International Governance, Ghent University
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Moderator: Sebastian Oberthür, Director of the Centre for Environment, Economy and Energy, Brussels School of Governance – Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Professor of Environmental Policy
and Law at the Centre for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law at the University of Eastern Finland
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GOVTRAN Network Final Event Series
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15 September - 7 October
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The upcoming event is part of a series of events marking the end of the first three-year term of the Jean Monnet network GOVTRAN – Governing the EU’s Climate and Energy Transition in
Turbulent Times (www.govtran.eu).
The events will reflect on current policy developments and look to the future of EU climate and energy policy in turbulent times. In particular, they will cover a range of topical issues for the EU‘s transition, from the integration of climate and trade policy,
over the new Climate Law, the role of citizen participation, adaptation and resilience, to the science-policy interface and more.
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