CLEW Press Club: The 2024 US election’s impact on European climate and energy policy
The EU elections in June left key European climate and energy policies intact despite large gains for far-right and other populist parties opposing them. But another major vote will influence the course of Western – and global – climate and energy policy before 2024 is over. At the U.S. presidential elections, the stakes for the future of the fossil fuel industry and for international emissions reduction efforts could not be higher.
Find out what European perspectives on the U.S. election’s impact on the EU’s climate and energy policy ambitions are by joining our CLEW Press Club as part of the Aspen Institute Germany’s “Road to Election 2024” series. Journalists and non-journalists alike are invited to discuss with four reporters from France, Poland, Germany, and Brussels on Tuesday, 8 October 2024.
Join to hear more about shared European views on different matters, ranging from emissions reduction over energy trading to green industry competition, but also where there is disunity in the EU over central questions regarding its most important ally.
AGENDA
16.00 – 16.05 (CEST)
Welcome and opening remarks
By Sven Egenter, editor-in-chief, Clean Energy Wire
16.05 – 16.50
Discussion, moderated by Sven Egenter, with:
Juliette Portala, freelance reporter
Dave Keating, freelance reporter
Alicja Ptak, Notes from Poland
Benjamin Wehrmann, Clean Energy Wire
16.50 – 17.20
Q&A, open discussion
17.20 – 17.30
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.”
Dave Keating is an American-European journalist who is the Brussels Correspondent for France 24. Previously he was the editor of EuropeanVoice.com, a side publication of The Economist. He is also a senior nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council. He is ranked as the number one EU social media influencer for 2023, coming second in 2022 and third in 2021 and 2020. Before arriving in Brussels in 2010, Dave covered the boardrooms of London, the US Congress in Washington, the cafés of Paris, the politics of Prague, the courtrooms of Chicago and the streets of New York City.
Alicja Ptak is a senior editor at Notes from Poland and an ex-Reuters Warsaw correspondent. She specialises in business and energy. As a freelance journalist, she has been published in The Times and, as a fixer, has contributed her reporting to several leading European outlets, including Die Zeit, WDR, NOS, and NRC.
Benjamin Wehrmann is staff Correspondent for CLEW. He mainly covers things that Germany wants to enter (renewables), plans to exit from (coal) or has already left behind (nuclear) – and everything in between. Benjamin started out as a reporter for politics and business at news agencies AFP and dpa in Germany and France and has worked for nationwide and niche media alike. For CLEW, he has climbed wind turbines, entered nuclear storage facilities and even visited seeming ‘lunar landscapes’ in former coal mining areas to bring Germany’s energy transition closer to the rest of the world.
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