08: Emissions Trading: an Effective Way to Reduce Emissions
Supported by Federal Ministry of Sustainability and Tourism
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Iginio-Rogger-Saal
Breakout
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in englischer SpracheBusinesses demand secure investments, but at the same time the need for climate protection means finding more and different sources of renewable energy. Is the current trade in emissions the right tool for achieving both goals? Does this trade actually reduce emissions from industry and power generation? Or do we need a minimum CO2 price?
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Genevieve PONS
Director, Brussel's Office, Institut Jacques Delors; Former Director, WWF European Policy Office, Brussels
| 1989-1991 | Member, Environment Team, Legal Service, European Commission, Brussels |
| 1991-1995 | Member, Cabinet of the President, European Commission, Brussels |
| 1995-2010 | Senior Manager, Head of several units, Directorate-General Enterprise and Industry, European Commission, Brussels |
| 2010-2011 | Head, Simplification and Administrative Burden Reduction Unit, Secretary-General, European Commission, Brussels |
| since 2011 | Honorary Director, European Commission, Brussels |
| 2011-2013 | Judge, Administrative Court of Appeal, Paris |
| 2013-2015 | Director, Legal Service, ILO - International Labour Organization, Geneva |
| 2015-2017 | Director, WWF European Policy Office, Brussels |
| since 2017 | Director, Institut Jacques Delors, Brussel's Office |
Mag. Dr. Jürgen SCHNEIDER
Head, Section IV - Climate, Austrian Federal Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism, Vienna
| 1984-1990 | Diplomstudium Chemie, Universität Wien |
| 1990-1994 | Doktoratsstudium in Biochemie, Universität Wien |
| 1994 | Universitätsassistent, Universität Wien |
| 1994-2002 | Abteilung für Lufthygiene, Umweltbundesamt GmbH, Wien |
| 2002-2004 | Projektmanager, WHO - Weltgesundheitsorganisation, Bonn |
| 2004-2007 | Umweltbundesamt GmbH, Wien |
| 2007-2014 | Leitung, Bereich Wirtschaft und Wirkung, Umweltbundesamt GmbH, Wien |
| 2011-2018 | Prokurist und Mitglied, Leitungsgremium, Umweltbundesamt GmbH, Wien |
| seit 2018 | Leiter, Sektion Klima, Bundesministerium für Nachhaltigkeit und Tourismus, Wien |
Peter ZAPFEL
Head of Unit, Emissions Trading System - Policy Development and Auctioning, DG Climate Action, European Commission, Brussels
| Peter Zapfel heads the unit "Emissions Trading System - Policy Development and Auctioning" in DG Climate Action. | |
| After joining the Commission in 1998 he worked for the DG for Economic and Financial Affairs and DG Environment. He has represented the Commission as a delegation member in several UN climate negotiation sessions. For several years he was responsible for the economic assessment of climate policy. He has been involved in the Commission’s work on emissions trading since 1998. In DG Environment he has coordinated a DG-internal task force for the Commission's assessment of national allocation plans for phase 2 of the EU Emission Trading System. He also served as assistant to the Deputy Director-General of DG Environment and as assistant to the Director-General in DG Climate Action. Prior to his current assignment he was Head of Unit of the Economic Analysis and Strategy Unit in DG Climate Action. | |
| He holds academic degrees from the University of Business and Economics in Vienna, Austria, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. |
Dr. Ulrike GUEROT
Head of Department, European Policy and the Study of Democracy, Danube University Krems - University for Continuing Education; Director and Founder, European Democracy Lab, European School of Governance, Krems
| Since 2016 Ulrike Guérot is Professor at Danube-University Krems and head of the department for European Policy and the Study of Democracy. Core activities of the department are both interdisciplinary research and network building. The main goal is to initiate a citizen-oriented and sustainable debate on key issues surrounding today’s Europe. Since September 2017 Ulrike Guérot is holder of Alfred-Grosser visiting professorship at the Goethe-University Frankfurt. Furthermore, she founded the Berlin based think tank "European Democracy Lab. The lab seeks to rethink and redesign European democracy. Currently, the lab is building a campaign platform advocating for both the principle of political equality beyond nation states and the empowerment of regional stakeholders within the EU-setup. | |
| Prior to her work in Krems and Berlin, Ulrike Guérot built up the office and served as Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations and lectured at various internationally renowned universities, such as Bucerius Law School Hamburg, John Hopkins University, INSEAD Singapore and Europa University Viadrina in Frankfurt. In addition she conducted research at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) on the topics of democracy and democratization. In April 2016 her first book 'Why Europe needs to become a republic! A political utopia' was published by Dietz. The principal idea of the book is the creation of a ‘European Republic’ based on the concept of equality in front of the law in a union of citizens. Her latest work 'The new civil war - the open Europe and its enemies', published by Ullstein is a bestseller in Germany. In this cutting edge pamphlet she describes the great divide throughout the European societies. She has been publishing widely in Germany, English and French on European, transatlantic and global issues in various newspapers, journals and books. In times of turmoil and crisis, Ulrike Guérot aims at creating a sustainable blueprint for Europe in the 21st century, which puts the citizen first. |
