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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

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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

16.45 Closing remarks

Jos Delbeke | Director-General for Climate Action, European Commission

Xavier Labandeira | Director, FSR Climate, EUI

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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 Foreign Affairs,

United Arab Emirates

Eva Jensen | Director of Secretariat, Danish Climate Council, Denmark

Jørgen Wettestad | Research Professor, The Fridtjof Nansen Institute,

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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

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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”

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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…”

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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 we may need, in order to make sure that all concerns and all challenges are addressed.”

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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”

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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]”

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Andris Piebalgs is Adviser to the President of Latvia and former Commissioner for Energy (Barroso I) and for Development (Barroso II).

In this interview Andris Piebalgs gives his perspectives on upgrading and achieving the internal market, and the “fourth package”.

“That was always the spirit, that you really had this ability to buy electricity where it is cheaper”

“So it means ,2004, ten years and we are back to here, but it is not to square one, now it is not you (Jean-Michel) saying this, now the Commission is saying this, and that is good news”

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Andris Piebalgs is Adviser to the President of Latvia and former Commissioner for Energy (Barroso I) and for Development (Barroso II).

In this third interview, Jean-Michel asks the former commissioner, “if for the 2030 targets countries will have to produce their own national plans, will the Commission have an active role in this?”

“I would always wish that on some issues, particularly on energy efficiency, but also for renewable energy development, also for research, the commission support for member countries would be a great thing”