IEEP & IES Environmental Policy Forum

The Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) and the Institute for European Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (IES) kindly invite you to their next Environmental Policy Forum on

                               "US Climate Change Policy in the Obama Era"

This event will take place at the IES, Pleinlaan 15, 5th floor, 1050 Brussels.

The EU and the US both have an essential role to play in taking forward global efforts to address climate change. Recently, there have been important policy developments in the United States, and in the run-up to the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference to be held in December 2009, insight into ongoing domestic policy-making processes in the US is critical for those working on climate policy issues in the rest of the world. In order to promote awareness of and foster debate on changing US policies in Brussels, three prominent American scholars working on domestic and international environmental policy and law have accepted the invitation to address the IES-IEEP Forum:

Stacy D. VanDeveer, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of New Hampshire;

David Wirth, Professor and Director of International Programs, Law School, Boston College;

Henrik Selin, Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Boston University.

The programme will start at 12:00 with a lunch reception and the presentations, followed by a debate with the audience, will begin at 12:30. The debate will be moderated by Sebastian Oberthür (IES) and Marc Pallemaerts (IEEP).

Participation is free of charge and open to all, but, due to space limitations, online registration is required at the following website: www.ies.be/policyforum
Deadline for registration is Thursday, 21 May, COB

Comparative documentation on climate change and related policies in the EU and US is available on the website of the Transatlantic Platform for Action on the Global Environment (T-PAGE), a joint project of IEEP and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in Washington: http://www.ieep.eu/projectminisites/t-page/index.php
In particular, participants may wish to download the T-PAGE final report Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policies in Europe and the United States at http://www.ieep.eu/publications/pdfs/tpage/tpageccfinalreport.pdf