COP26 and Europe’s green grand bargain
Is the EU in a position to deliver a green grand bargain, or is its role as peripheral now as it was at COP15?
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This week, host Mark Leonard speaks with Lykke Friis, ECFR board member and director of the Danish Think Tank Europa and former minister for climate and energy of Denmark; Susi Dennison, head of ECFR’s European power programme; and Alex Clark, researcher at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford and ECFR visiting fellow. Together, they analyse the prospects of success at COP26 and particularly what role the European Union can and should play. Is the EU in a position to deliver a green grand bargain, or is its role as peripheral now as it was at COP15?
This podcast was recorded on 3 November 2021.
Further reading:
- Climate of cooperation: How the EU can help deliver a green grand bargain by Alex Clark, Susi Dennison, and Mats Engström
- Last chance for Global Climate Leadership in Glasgow? Event with Lykke Friis, Susi Dennison, Dan Joergensen, and Lars Aagaard
Bookshelf:
- Hoffnungsland: Eine neue deutsche Wirklichkeit by Olaf Scholz
- Collapse: How societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared Diamond
- Empirically grounded technology forecast and the energy transition by the Institute for New Economic Thinking
- There is still a way out of the climate crisis by Kyriakos Mitsotakis
