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http://fsr.eui.eu Jean-Michel sums up the Florence School of Regulation in 60 seconds

http://fsr.eui.eu Jos Delbeke is the Director General of DG Climate Action at the European Commission and is considered a "founding father" of the Emission Trading Scheme. He is also the co-author of a new book, EU Climate Policy Explained, which will be published in October. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Climate-Policy-Explained-Jos-Delbeke/dp/9279482610/ Recorded 22 September in Brussels Here he tells Jean-Michel about the highs and lows of European climate policy over the last decade, as well as the future of carbon markets around the world. "We were increasing GDP while we were decreasing our emissions significantly." "Our policy is much more coherent than what it resembles at first sight." "We all know that optimally, we should have the same carbon price around the globe, but we know that the world isn't perfect." "It's a success that in Europe, with 28 member states, we have the same carbon price." "The fact that all countries have to come forward with a policy pledge merits much more attention than

Thomas-Olivier Leautier is Research Director at the Toulouse School of Economics, and professor of management at the University of Toulouse Graduate School of Management, where he created the Master in Risk Management. Here he talks about policy initiatives how to integrate renewables into the power market. This topic will be covered during the FSR's new 2 day Executive Course to Master Electricity Markets which takes place 18-19 January 2016. Course webpage: http://fsr.eui.eu/EnergyandClimate/Training/Master-Electricity-Markets.aspx

Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy has been a member of the European Parliament since July 2009 where he sits with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. He is former Vice Chair and continues to be a member of the Environment Committee. Recorded 17 September 2015 Here he tells Jean-Michel about the role of the European Parliament in the debate surrounding climate change and the importance of effective scientific communication. "What I find most important after we tried the top-down approach with great failure in Copenhagen, we now have this bottom-up approach where countries have to submit their own climate plans." "If you have a message based on data that is so unpopular that nobody will follow you then have no influence." "Scientists and researchers are often very knowledgeable in their own field but not very knowledgeable in other fields like politics so it would be good for every scientist to take a short class on how politics works because it is a completely different world." "What I find intrigui

Peter Cramton, Professor at the University of Maryland and the EUI, is an expert in market design. Here he talks with Jean-Michel Glachant about global decarbonisation negotiations. Recorded 9 September 2015 "The international negotiations have today been ineffective at addressing decarbonisation, and the basic problem is the process that they're using in the negotiations. They are not taking advantage of what we know about how to promote cooperation in negotiations" "The pledges are inadequate. They are essentially what are in the self-interests of the countries." "Price carbon - I will, if you will." "Rather than making individual pledges, the parties should be looking for a common commitment and pledge the common commitment" "The price of carbon is a very natural common focal of the common commitment."

The Florence School of Regulation presents: Jean-Michel Glachant's Energy Today no.017 16 July 2015 recorded online Walter Boltz is executive director at E-Control, Europe’s leading gas regulator. Here he talks with Jean-Michel Glachant about the nature and benefits of solidarity in European gas policy. “…I don’t think that in the foreseeable future Europe will be speaking with one voice, because the actual interests of European counties varies widely.” “There is this principle of solidarity but as the discussions bout the restructuring of Greek debt has shown, there are limits to solidarity and the solidarity levels is seen differently in different regions in Europe. I think what has become clear in the gas world is that certain amount of solidarity is in the interest of everybody because individually we are weaker than jointly. ” “The stress tests have shown that if everybody tries to optimise his own national situation, the overall a significant number of citizens will be denied gas access. Whereas i

http://fsr.eui.eu Energy Today no.022 Saskia Lavrijssen, Professor of economic regulation and governance of network industries Tilburg University, explains the new concept of prosumers in electricity markets. Interview by Adrien de Hauteclocque, Legal Secretary (Référendaire) of Judge M. van der Woude at the Court of Justice of the European Union (General Court), Luxembourg, and an Adviser of the Loyola de Palacio Chair Recorded 2 June 2015, at the FSR, 2015 Summer School on EU Energy Law and Policy, in Florence, Italy. “The prosumer, that is an energy consumer, and I especially refer to households, that do not only use energy but also generate energy” “At this moment the current national and European frame works are still based on the idea that the consumer only uses energy… however now in the future more and more consumers will also feed in energy to the grid…”

http://fsr.eui.eu/Events/ENERGY/Conference/2015/150521ClimateEUETSConference.aspx Energy Today no.021 Jos Delbeke, Director General for DG Climate Action, talks about the EU ETS. Interview by Claudio Marcantonini, Scientific Coordinator for FSR Climate. Recorded 21 May 2015, at the conference Looking Back at Ten Years of the EU ETS: Lessons Learnt and Future Perspectives, in Florence, Italy.

http://fsr.eui.eu/Events/ENERGY/Conference/2015/150521ClimateEUETSConference.aspx Energy Today no.020 Jorge Moreira da Silva, Minister for Environment, Spacial Planning and Energy, Portugal talks about EU Policy. Interview by Claudio Marcantonini, Scientific Coordinator for FSR Climate. Recorded 21 May 2015, at the conference Looking Back at Ten Years of the EU ETS: Lessons Learnt and Future Perspectives, in Florence, Italy

http://fsr.eui.eu/Events/ENERGY/Conference/2015/150521ClimateEUETSConference.aspx Energy Today no.019 Guy Turner, from Trove Research talks about the EU ETS as an economic instrument. Interview by Claudio Marcantonini, Scientific Coordinator for FSR Climate. Recorded 21 May 2015, at the conference Looking Back at Ten Years of the EU ETS: Lessons Learnt and Future Perspectives, in Florence, Italy.

http://fsr.eui.eu/Events/ENERGY/Conference/2015/150521ClimateEUETSConference.aspx Energy Today no.018 Daniel Dudek, Vice President of the Environmental Defense Fund, USA, talks about the international importance of the EU ETS. Interview by Claudio Marcantonini, Scientific Coordinator for FSR Climate. Recorded 21 May 2015, at the conference Looking Back at Ten Years of the EU ETS: Lessons Learnt and Future Perspectives, in Florence, Italy.

http://fsr.eui.eu/Events/ENERGY/Conference/2015/150521ClimateEUETSConference.aspx Energy Today no.017 Carlo Carraro, Director of the International Centre for Climate Governance, FEEM, gives his thoughts on the forth coming Paris conference and the role of the EU. Interview by Claudio Marcantonini, Scientific Coordinator for FSR Climate. Recorded 21 May 2015, at the conerence Looking Back at Ten Years of the EU ETS: Lessons Learnt and Future Perspectives, in Florence, Italy.

http://FSR.eui.eu Organised by FSR Climate, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence in collaboration with DG Climate Action, European Commission Teatro, Badia Fiesolana Via dei Roccettini, 9 – San Domenico di Fiesole 20 - 21 May 2015 more information and programme: http://fsr.eui.eu/Events/ENERGY/Conference/2015/150521ClimateEUETSConference.aspx 14.15-16.30 Session 3: Looking Forward: What Next for the EU ETS? Chair Peter Zapfel | Head of Unit, DG Climate Action, European Commission Panelists Felix Matthes | Research Coordinator, Öko-Institut, Germany Dorette Corbey | Chairman, Dutch Emissions Authority, the Netherlands Ondřej Strecker | Senior Strategy Specialist, CEZ Group, Czech Republic Dirk Forrister | President and CEO, IETA, Switzerland Daniel Dudek | Vice President, Environmental Defense Fund, USA Carlo Carraro | Director, International Centre for Climate Governance, FEEM, Italy 16.30-16.45 Summary Ewa Krukowska | EU Reporter, Bloomberg News, Belgium 16.

http://FSR.eui.eu Organised by FSR Climate, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence in collaboration with DG Climate Action, European Commission Teatro, Badia Fiesolana Via dei Roccettini, 9 – San Domenico di Fiesole 20 - 21 May 2015 more information and programme: http://fsr.eui.eu/Events/ENERGY/Conference/2015/150521ClimateEUETSConference.aspx 08.30-08.45 Conference opening Brigid Laffan | Director, RSCAS, EUI Miguel Arias-Cañete | Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy (video recording) Jean-Michel Glachant | Director, FSR, EUI 08.45-09.00 Keynote speech Frank Convery | Chief Economist, Environmental Defense Fund, USA 09.00-10.30 Session 1: What Made the EU ETS Possible? Chair Brigid Laffan | Director, RSCAS, EUI Panelists Jean-Yves Caneill | Head of Climate Policy, EDF, France Peter Vis | EU Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford, UK John Scowcroft | Executive Adviser, Global CCS Institute, Belgium Robert Bradley | Senior Policy Advisor, Ministry of Forei

http://FSR.eui.eu Organised by FSR Climate, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence in collaboration with DG Climate Action, European Commission Teatro, Badia Fiesolana Via dei Roccettini, 9 – San Domenico di Fiesole 20 - 21 May 2015 more information and programme: http://fsr.eui.eu/Events/ENERGY/Conference/2015/150521ClimateEUETSConference.aspx 11.00-12.45 Session 2: How Has the EU ETS Worked? Chair Xavier Labandeira | Director, FSR Climate, EUI Panelists Denny Ellerman | former Director, Climate Policy Research Unit, EUI Stig Schjolset | Head of Carbon Analysis, Thomson Reuters Point Carbon, Norway Guy Turner | CEO, Trove Research, UK Franzjosef Schafhausen | Director General, Climate Change, European and International Policy, Federal Ministry for Environment, Germany Marco Mensink | Director General, CEPI, Belgium Baroness Bryony Worthington | Shadow Energy and Climate Change Minister, House of Lords, UK

http://fsr.eui.eu The Florence School of Regulation presents: Jean-Michel Glachant's Energy Today no.016 25 May 2015 from the 38th IAEE International Conference in Antalya, Turkey Former President of IAEE and Acting President of Italian AE, Prof. Carlo-Andrea Bollino talks with Jean-Michel Glachant about the implementation and status of renewables in Italy. In this interview we learn that although often overlooked, Italy is one of the leading countries in the move away from fossil fuels. “…The Italian public was environmentally conscious and didn’t want to build new fossil fuel based generation plants, but they wanted renewable energy” “Now after the crisis the rate of return from an investment in a small photovoltaic roof on your home is much better than a treasury bill of the Italian government, but that was the right signal at the time to give to a public that was suspicious”

http://fsr.eui.eu The Florence School of Regulation presents: Ilaria Conti's Energy Today no.015 22 May 2015 in Florence. Jacques de Jong, Senior Fellow at Clingendael International Energy Programme, on the Energy Union, talks to Ilaria Conti from the FSR about security of supply. "It is a highly political case with a lot of emotion around that. I feel sometimes hijacked by the political people when we are talking about energy and the security of supply" "I really do believe that security of supply is one of the key objectives of European Energy Policy, but we should define, much more in particular, what we mean by it…”

http://fsr.eui.eu Alberto Pototschnig is the Director of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators. In this interview he answers questions about Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms, the subject of the Policy Workshop he is about to introduce at the Florence School of Regulation. Interview by Ilaria Conti | Research and Policy Coordinator, Florence School of Regulation Recorded 18 May 2015, at the FSR Regulatory Policy Workshop, A Target Model for Electricity Capacity Remuneration Schemes, in Florence, Italy. “That I think is the challenge, to make sure that the Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms are not a patch to a temporary problem, but to see how you can augment the target model that we have, with some sort of mechanisms to deal with adequacy issues, if we come to the view that this is necessary.” “the results of the last enquiry sparkled the 3rd package, now I don’t think we need a 4th package, but defiantly we need to look at the target model that we have, and see which additional components w

http://fsr.eui.eu The Florence School of Regulation presents: Jean-Michel Glachant's Energy Today no.014 6 May 2015 in Brussels Paul Van Son, chairman of MENA for RWE talks to JM Glachant about a “revolution” in the production of Middle Eastern renewable energy. “Gas and oil are not competitive anymore in these countries, so they will rapidly disappear” “We are all connected worldwide in the same interconnected energy grid” “Very soon we will see that with this very cheap production this will put pressure on production in the areas where electricity is more expensive.” “In the Middle East they will very soon transform all energy to renewables.” “I worked for many years in the renewables and I never believed it would go that fast”

http://fsr.eui.eu Andris Piebalgs is Adviser to the President of Latvia and former Commissioner for Energy (Barroso I) and for Development (Barroso II). After giving a lecture at the EUI, he was interviewed by the director of the Florence School of Regulation, Jean-Michel Glachant, during which he answered questions on the European Commission and the Energy Union, implementing policies, and regulatory authorities “The biggest challenge for Energy Regulators was the general rejection of EU agencies” “The perception Energy Union sounds good for solidarity, so that’s why the name I think” “I believe that in the third energy package we have made some compromises that we need now to come back [to]”