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The Paris mandate: reflecting on the UN Climate Change Conference COP21
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The day after the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21), ACCESS EUROPE takes stock of its main results and implications for European climate policy with public and academic experts. Is there anything new under the sun? With Bas Eikhout, Louise van Schaik, Pieter Pauw en Philipp Pattberg.

From 30 November to 11 December, Paris will host the 21st United Nations Conference on Climate Change. Doha, Warsaw, Lima: the last COP-summits achieved little in the efforts to tackle global climate change. While there is academic consensus among climatologists on the effect of human activity on global warming, this knowledge does not (yet) seem to be reflected in international climate policy making. A prime example of this are the results of the COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009, which lacked strong political commitments. COP21, also known as the 2015 Paris Climate Conference, will, for the first time in over 20 years of UN negotiations, aim to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate, with the aim of keeping global warming below 2°C.

Questions that fuel this public debate include: What are the main achievements of the Paris Climate Conference, and is there anything new compared to the COP15 results in Copenhagen? Can we expect new policy measures or clauses that make the agreement stronger in terms of combatting climate change? Can we count on political commitment and practical steps towards reaching and enforcing the agreed goals? Which countries were the main opponents of strong measures and what consequences does that have? What can we expect for the future, in particular up to 2020 when the COP21 agreement will enter into force? And last but not least: what are the implications for European climate policies and strategies. These issues will be addressed by a group of distinguished speakers from both the academic and public domain.
About the speakers

Bas Eikhout is a Member of the European Parliament of the European Green Party (The Greens) and member of the Dutch green party GroenLinks.

Louise van Schaik is senior research fellow and EU climate policy expert at the Clingendael Institute for International Relations.

Pieter Pauw is researcher at the department of Environmental Policy and Natural Resources Management of the Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik.

Philipp Pattberg is Professor of Transnational Environmental Governance and Policy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Department head Environmental Policy Analysis at Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

The event will be moderated by Ben Crum, Professor of Political Science at the VU University and ACCESS EUROPE Scientific Co-Director.
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