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Martin Weitzman was interviewed by MW Fellow Martina Bozzola on 21 October 2015 at the Max Weber Programme of the European University Institute. They tackled the collective challenges posed by the risk of climate change and the relevance of shock events to redirect individual interest towards the international governance of this crucial public good.

An FSR interview by Martina Bozzola

Mario Ragwitz, Deputy Head of Competence Center Energy Policy and Energy Markets, Coordinator of Business Unit Renewable Energies, talks to Nicholas Barrett about funding for renewable energy in Europe. This recording was made on 22 October during FSR Climate 2015 Annual Conference.

“We have seen a strong decline in the generation costs of renewables and a number of technologies are already competitive today in good locations such as on-shore wind and solar in southern Europe.”

“We see that market values of renewables decrease with increased market integration, therefore, you probably still need another decade before renewables are fully cost competitive.”

Ian Parry is the Principal Environmental Fiscal Policy Expert in the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Fiscal Affairs Department, here he talks to Xavier Labandeira, Director of FSR Climate, about how to price carbon.

This recording was made on 22 October during FSR Climate 2015 Annual Conference.

“Carbon taxes are a very simple practical straight forward tool and the most effective and efficient way to price carbon while raising revenue at the same time”

“There is a lot of momentum, but if we are being honest, we have an awful long way to go”

Massimo Filippini, Professor from ETH Zurich gives his thoughts on how effective the European effort to mitigate Climate Change is.

An interview by Xavier Labandeira, Director of FSR Climate, recorded 22 October during FSR Climate 2015 Annual Conference.

“We should recognise behind the consumption of energy we have long term investment”

“I am not sure that at the end of the day this diversity in the approaches to reach some climate and energy policy goals will be so effective”

Peter Cramton is a professor both at the University of Maryland and the European University Institute, here he gives his opinion on how to promote international climate agreements.

An interview by Christoph Graf, Research Assistant at FSR Climate, recorded 22 October during FSR Climate 2015 Annual Conference.

“The coalition of the willing has to include the United States, Europe, India, China, Brazil… all the large countries who are emitting large amounts of carbon”

“I think that the political will is growing, and what will is growing… and what will help it grow is an effective instrument”

Peter Kaderjak | Director of the Regional Centre for Energy Policy Research, talks to the Director of the Florence School of Regulation Jean-Michel Glachant about Gas Security of Supply after his participation on the panel ‘Going beyond national borders: is it really that difficult?’

Recorded at ‘External Energy Security and Policy: Power and Gas Aspects’, 5 October 2015, Vienna, Austria, organised by E-Control and Florence School of Regulation.

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“We are the only region with the perspective of declining production.”

“The external question is to what extent are our outside suppliers reliable and at what cost they provide the gas. The good news is that there are several outside suppliers who are becoming new ones in the European market, potently the US is there. The bad news is that you still have problems with the potential reliability of the outside suppliers, with Russia you never know and the north African supply has decreased substantially.

“We have abundant gas around Europe but we still have a lot of internal problems in the European system.”

“Each member state should do it’s homework to analyse it’s supply security situation.”

After introducing the main features of the EU Infrastructure Package, Catharina Sikow-Magny (DG Energy) confirms to our microphone the dates of the first EU Forum on energy infrastructures. Listen to the podcast.

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“Why is the infrastructure package so good?”, The role of ACER, and the Madrid, Florence and Copenhagen forums in perspective.

Catharina Sikow-Magny is Head of Unit at Networks and Regional Initiatives, DG ENER, here she talks with Ilaria Conti, Research and Policy Coordinator at the Florence School of Regulation, about Energy Infrastructure.

Recorded at “External Energy Security and Policy: Power and Gas Aspects” event organised by the Florence School of Regulation and E-Control in Vienna on the 5th October 2015.

“The trans-European network regulation is actually I would say, four regulations in one, it is a very rich regulation, we still need to explore all the different articles, and are still sometimes discovering articles from the past”

“There is a wide range of issues, where both sectors (Gas & Electricity) have similar questions that we can that we can then answer in a better way at the (Copenhagen) forum”

Marc van der Woude | Judge, President of 7th Chamber, General Court of the European Union

Marc van der Woude settles disputes at the EU level, including those involving the EU's own institutions. Here he discusses his role in European energy policy with Jean-Michel Glachant.

Recorded in Brussels, 29th September 2015

"You can have a clash between energy policy on one hand and environmental policy on the other"

"To say that they would define policy is wrong, they would define conflicts between policy objectives."

"Even the Iranian case deals with the question of whether companies are active in the energy sector, because the energy sector provides the funds which allow the Iranian government to finance its nuclear proliferation."

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Jean-Michel sums up the Florence School of Regulation in 60 seconds

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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 it has been given so far."