Talk title:  The Evolution of the EU ETS – Finally Tailwind for the International Pioneer? 

Guest speaker: Jørgen Wettestad, Research Professor, Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Oslo, Norway

Host: Coraline Goron, Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy, Duke Kunshan University

Time: 5:30PM-7:00 PM, Tuesday, May 9

Zoom ID: 916 0319 1324 

Passcode: 1122

Abstract:

This lecture will provide a historical overview of the evolution of the EU ETS, from the turn-about from flexibility sceptic to ETS pioneer in the late 1990s up to the present day’s Green Deal, Fit for 55 and ETS reform. The lecture will cover both internal driving forces and actors and interaction with the international environment.

Bio: Jørgen Wettestad is Research Professor at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Oslo, Norway. He has published several books and numerous articles on international, EU and national environmental policy, with much attention to EU climate and energy policy.  His most recent books are Comparative Renewables Policy: Political, Organizational and European Fields; Routledge 2021 (edited together with Elin Lerum Boasson and Merethe Dotterud Leiren) and The Evolution of Carbon Markets: Design and Diffusion, Routledge 2018 (edited with Lars H. Gulbrandsen).  Wettestad is editorial board member of Politics and Governance and has participated as Lead Author in WG III in IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report.