Recording available: CLEW Press Club - What’s next for energy & climate in Europe?
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The 2019 European Parliament elections that set the stage for the Green Deal came after a summer of heatwaves and powerful protests by the Fridays for Future movement. The spotlight was firmly on climate policy, leading to a “green wave” of election victories for environmental parties. In reaction, the EU pledged to reach climate neutrality by 2050 and put the Green Deal at the heart of its efforts.
Now, in 2024, the EU is deep in the implementation phase – after years of crisis management first due to the pandemic and then to the war against Ukraine, the consequences of which have also toned down enthusiasm for decisive climate legislation across the continent. Yet, most polls also show that a majority of citizens want governments and the EU to do more to stem the climate crisis.
So, what will the eventual election outcome mean for energy and climate policy in Europe? Join us on the day after the votes are cast for the first CLEW Press Club on Monday, 10 June 2024. Three expert reporters from France, Italy and Poland will be analysing the role energy and climate issues played in the national campaigns, allowing journalist and non-journalist viewers alike to make sense of the election outcomes all across the EU, and to discuss the ensuing formation of the European Commission.
AGENDA
17.00 – 17.05 (CEST)
Welcome and opening remarks
By Sven Egenter, editor-in-chief, Clean Energy Wire
17.05 – 17.35
Discussion, moderated by Sven Egenter, with:
Juliette Portala, freelance reporter
Emanuela Barbiroglio, climate and energy correspondent at Carbon Pulse in Brussels
Patryk Strzałkowski, climate reporter at Gazeta.pl
17.35 – 17.55
Q&A, open discussion
17.55 – 18.00
Closing remarks
By Sven Egenter
SPEAKERS
Juliette Portala is a former financial reporter at Reuters, where she specialised in fossil fuel players. Now a freelance journalist, she is striving to better link up the energy and climate crises while covering global conservation subjects. She wrote the Q&A “French torn between energy price fears and climate threat a year before EU vote.”
Patryk Strzałkowski is a climate reporter at Gazeta.pl, focusing on various climate and environmental issues, as well as foreign affairs. He wrote the case study "Fear of ousted populists could be enough to stall climate policy in Poland."
Emanuela Barbiroglio is based in Brussels, where she works as European climate and energy correspondent for Carbon Pulse. Previously she worked as a freelancer for ANSA Europa covering EU cohesion policy, and at Voxeurop as a climate and environment reporter, among other outlets.
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