In December 2019 the European Commission presented the European Green Deal, the key plan to advance the EU’s climate agenda. More ambitious EU decarbonisation targets for 2030 and climate neutrality by 2050 are the main goals. The Green Deal also includes new plans and strategies for sustainable investment, carbon border adjustment, the European industry, sustainable agriculture and biodiversity. The Commission has stated that the Green Deal will remain a priority despite the Covid-19 crisis. Is the Green Deal a step change in EU climate and energy policy? What are the main challenges to its implementation? How will it impact the role of the EU as a global actor?
The webinar is organized by the Finnish Institute of International Affairs in cooperation with the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy (ISEP) at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
Webinar recording available at the bottom of this page.
Speakers
Director and Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Professor of Energy, Resources and Environment, SAIS and Founding Director, ISEP
Johannes Urpelainen is the Director and Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Professor of Energy, Resources and Environment at Johns Hopkins SAIS and the Founding Director of the ISEP. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan in 2009 and spent the next eight years at Columbia University. Dr Urpelainen is the award-winning author of four books and over a hundred refereed articles on environmental politics, energy policy, and global governance.
Senior Research Fellow, FIIA
Marco Siddi is a Senior Research Fellow at FIIA, where he focuses on European politics, EU-Russia relations and energy politics. His research has been published in numerous academic journals, including International Politics, Europe-Asia Studies, Geopolitics, Politics and The International Spectator. He has taught at several European universities, most recently at Tampere University and the University of Helsinki. Prior to joining FIIA, he was a Marie Curie and DAAD fellow. He studied at Oxford University, the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna and the University of Edinburgh, where he received a PhD in Politics.
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Leading Researcher
Dr. Emma Hakala is a Leading Researcher at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. Her research focuses on environmental security and the geopolitics of climate change, such as the role of international actors in building climate security practices. She leads the project “Climate change and Finland’s security of supply” and a part on conflict analysis in the project “Water Cooperation and Peace – Finnish Water Way”, which FIIA implements as a partner of the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE).
Hakala gained her D.Soc.Sci degree in political history at the University of Helsinki in 2018. Her doctoral dissertation focused on the securitisation of the environment and the role of international organisations in post-conflict Western Balkans. Hakala has previously obtained a Master’s degree in political history at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki. Hakala is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the project “Toxic Crimes: Legal Activism against Wartime Environmental Destruction” at the University of Helsinki and a member of the multidisciplinary BIOS Research Unit.