Brussels conference: "EU Climate Policy Beyond 2020 – taking stock and looking forward”

Date: 

6 March 2014

Location: 

“Ateliers des Tanneurs” - Rue des Tanneurs 58, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgien

On 6 March 2014, the CECILIA2050 consortium held a high-level expert conference in Brussels on the EU’s climate policy beyond 2020.

Below you can find the conference programme in full text and as a separate document as well as the conference presentations of the high-level experts that participated in the conference. If you are interested in knowing more about the conference, please follow this link to our news page, where you can find a picture gallery and summary of the event. An encompassing report on the proceedings of the conference is available here!

Download the conference agenda:
PDF icon Conference programme - EU climate policy beyond 2020 final 2014-03-06.pdf
09:00
Registration
09:30
R. Andreas Kraemer, Director, Ecologic Institute
Welcome and introduction to the conference and the CECILIA2050 project
Peter Vis, Head of Cabinet, DG for Climate Action, European Commission
High-level keynote speech "Towards decarbonisation: EU climate policy beyond 2020"
PDF icon VIS 2014-03-06 CECILIA2050 conference presentation.pdf
Question and answer session
Serena Pontoglio, Research Programme Officer, DG for Research and Innovation, European Commission
Welcome note "Research and Innovation policies for climate action"
PDF icon PONTOGLIO 2014-03-06 CECILIA2050 conference presentation.pdf
10:35
Chair: R. Andreas Kraemer, Ecologic Institute
Session 1: Lessons from current climate policy mix at EU and MS level
Benjamin Görlach, Ecologic Institute (project coordinator)
Lessons from the current policy mix - insights from CECILIA2050
PDF icon Goerlach 2014-03-06 CECILIA2050 conference presentation.pdf
Andreas Barkman, European Environment Agency
Progress towards the 2020 targets - Member State performance
PDF icon Barkman 2014-03-06 CECILIA2050 conference presentation.pdf
11:15
Coffee break
11:45
Session 2 (two parallel groups): A sectoral perspective
11:45
Chair: Massimilano Mazzanti, University of Ferrara
Parallel Group 1: Triggering low-carbon innovation in key industries
Philippe Quirion, Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement et le Développement (CIRED)
EU ETS impacts in industry: abatement vs leakage - insights from CECILIA2050
Tomas Wyns, Institute for European Studies (IES), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Climate & industrial policy for an entrepreneurial Europe
PDF icon WYNS 2014-03-06 CECILIA2050 conference presentation.pdf
Karsten Neuhoff, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
Instruments for industrial innovation: case study cement sector (from Climate Strategies' Energy Intensive Industries project)
PDF icon NEUHOFF 2014-03-06 CECILIA2050 conference presentation.pdf
Discussion with the audience
11:45
Chair: Katharina Umpfenbach, Ecologic Institute
Parallel Group 2: Stakeholder’s And Public Support For Climate Policy
Milan Scasny, Charles University Prague (CUNI)
Do Europeans Support Climate Change Policies: Consumer Perspective - insights from CECILIA2050
PDF icon SCASNY 2014-03-06 CECILIA2050 conference presentation.pdf
Agni Kalfagianni, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM)
Desirable Climate Policy in the Agri-food Sector: Stakeholder Perspective - insights from CECILIA2050
PDF icon KALFAGIANNI 2014-03-06 CECILIA2050 conference presentation.pdf
Dr. Alberto Longo, University of Belfast
Discussant: Scientific Insights into Support For Climate Policy
PDF icon LONGO 2014-03-06 CECILIA2050 conference presentation.pdf
Discussion with the audience
13:00
Lunch Break
14:15
Chair: Bernd Meyer, Institute of Economic Structures Research (GWS)
Session 3: Scenarios for the energy sector
Paul Ekins, University College London
Key challenges for the energy sector: insights from CECILIA2050
PDF icon EKINS 2014-03-06 CECILIA2050 conference presentation.pdf
Oliver Schenker, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) (coordinators of ENTRACTE project)
Instrumentation for 2050: insights from the ENTRACTE project
PDF icon SCHENKER 2014-03-06 CECILIA2050 conference presentation.pdf
Christian Kjaer, Founder, Faraday Consult
Discussant: managing the energy transition
Discussion with the audience
15:45
Cofee break
16:15
Chair: Matthias Duwe, Head of Climate, Ecologic Institute
Session 4: Lessons for the 2030 framework: targets & instruments (expert panel)
Hans ten Berge, Secretary General, Eurelectric
Krzysztof Bolesta, Advisor to State Secretary Korolec of Poland
Eric Mamer, Deputy Head of Cab. Commissioner Oettinger, DG Energy
Jason Anderson, WWF
Discussion with the audience and the panel
17:45
Benjamin Görlach, Ecologic Institute (project coordinator)
Summary of the debate and the day
18:00
Reception with drinks and light snacks