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EU Climate Policies – Insights for Canada
April 10, 2013 at 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
| Location: | 2017 Dunton Tower |
| Cost: | Free |
EU Climate Policies: Emissions Trading and Fuel Quality Directive – Insights for Canada
Report can be accessed at EU Climate Policy Presentation
This event is supported by the Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung, and the Centre for European Studies.
Oliver Geden and Severin Fischer are experts in European Union climate and energy policy, from the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). This think tank provides policy analysis to the German Parliament and federal government. Severin Fischer’s talk will explore the Emissions Trading Scheme, a cornerstone of the EU’s climate policy which may be expanded to include transatlantic aviation. Oliver Geden’s talk will focus on the EU’s controversial Fuel Quality Directive. Last year, a proposed revision to label oil from the oil sands as more polluting than conventional crude was tabled. That proposal is up for consideration again later this year.
Dr. Oliver Geden is a Senior Research Fellow at the Berlin-based German Institute for International and Security 
Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP) since 2006. As a member of the “European Integration” research division, his studies mainly focus on the European Union’s energy and climate policy. He received his Ph.D. from Humboldt University Berlin, has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and worked as an external expert in the Federal Foreign Office’s Policy Planning Unit.
Severin Fischer has been working as a fellow at the German Institute for International and Security 
Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP) in Berlin since 2011. He has five years of working experience in the field of energy and climate policy. Between 2008 and 2011 he worked as project coordinator at Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP) in Berlin. During 2009 and 2010 he joined the office of the Chairman of the Environment Committee in the European Parliament as a policy adviser. Since 2010 he has also been a visiting lecturer at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. He holds a degree in political science.
This event is also supported, in part, by a grant from the European Union