What Europe Should Do to Advance Climate Action

Advancing climate action is one of the overarching priorities of both the European Green Deal and the EU’s coronavirus recovery fund, but varying levels of urgency in different national contexts hinder progress.

To effectively mobilize European citizens, EU leaders will need to go beyond the existing soft consensus on climate change and implement strategic, country-specific action plans.

Carnegie Europe, d|part, and the Open Society European Policy Institute are delighted to invite you to a virtual event for the launch of "From Climate Awareness to Climate Action", a report that takes stock of climate-change perceptions in seven European countries and identifies policies that could generate broad public support for climate action.

Tune in for a conversation with Jan Eichhorn, the report’s author, who will be joined by Jori Keijsper and Claire Mellier. Heather Grabbe will moderate.

SPEAKERS
– Jan Eichhorn is research director of d|part.
– Jori Keijsper is communication advisor to Frans Timmermans, executive vice-president of the European Commission for the European Green Deal.
– Claire Mellier is a researcher and facilitator. She was part of the facilitation team at Climate Assembly UK and one of the accredited researchers who observed France’s Convention Citoyenne pour le Climat.

MODERATOR
– Heather Grabbe is director of the Open Society European Policy Institute.

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Remember back in the 1970's the experts told us that a mini Ice age was just about here? What happened to that prediction?

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At present 85% of world energy is finite fossil fuel ..oil, coal, gas, uranium what percentage, can wind and solar replace fossil ?, , , , meanwhile the world population has grown 30% in past 25 years and still increasing ? Seems impossible

[hcwcars]

Didn't the yellow vest movement in France stike down the carbon tax imposed by Macron?

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Will there be enough raw material for everyone to have an electric car that wants one? We already know the answer is no. So only the rich people will have access to travel by automobile.