EU Ambassador: 'Green Growth Will Be the Key' to Europe’s Recovery

EU Ambassador: ‘Green Growth Will Be the Key’ to Europe’s Recovery

On this week’s episode of Political Climate, we discuss green economic recovery plans with EU Ambassador to the U.S. Stavros Lambrinidis, as well as experts from Google, CSIS, Clearview Energy Partners and The Aspen Institute.

Julia Pyper May 14, 2020

Julia Pyper

Senior Editor
Greentech Media

Julia Pyper is a Senior Editor at Greentech Media covering the energy transition. She is also the host and producer of the Political Climate podcast. She previously reported for E&E Publishing, and has covered clean energy and climate change issues across the U.S. and abroad, including in India, Haiti, Israel and the Maldives. She holds degrees from McGill and Columbia Universities. Find her on Twitter @JMPyper.

Late last year, the European Union introduced a $1 trillion plan to reach carbon-neutrality by 2050 and achieve a just transition away from polluting technologies.

Europe’s Green Deal enjoys strong backing from many of the EU’s top political figures, but it faces pushback from coal-heavy member states. Implementation of the Green Deal has now been further complicated by the urgent need for governments to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.

On this episode of Political Climate, we bring you a conversation with EU Ambassador to the U.S. Stavros Lambrinidis about the implications of COVID-19 for Europe’s energy and climate agenda.

Not only that — with a stellar panel of experts from Google, The Aspen Institute and elsewhere, we also discuss the fallout from plummeting oil prices, what to do with stranded fossil fuel assets, the outlook for a U.S. green recovery plan, and corporate clean energy commitments amid coronavirus. This episode you'll also hear from:

Nikos Tsafos, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
Kevin Book, managing director of research at ClearView Energy Partners
Marsden Hanna, head of sustainability and climate policy for the government affairs team at Google
Greg Gershuny, executive director of the Aspen Institute's energy and environment program

Political Climate host Julia Pyper moderates this conversation, which originally took place as a virtual event hosted by the EU Delegation to the U.S.