ONLINE-LECTURE
European Green Deal: Opportunities and Challenges
TIME: Friday, 30. Oct. 15:30-17:00
LANGUAGE: English
ZOOM MEETING ID: 62730780314
PASSWORD: 902903
LINK: https://zoom.com.cn/j/62730780314
LECTURER
Prof. Dr. Markus Lederer is political scientist with a focus on International Politics. Since 2016, he heads the research group International Relations at TU Darmstadt. He works on questions of global environmental, climate, and environmental politics. He is particularly interested in institutional developments and multi-level dynamics in countries of the global south. Prof. Dr. Lederer studied Political Science, International Law and Comparative Literary Studies and received my PhD from the LMU München in 2003. Later, he worked for several years at the Universität Potsdam, was substitute professor in Bremen, at the TU Darmstadt and DAAD Lecturer in Costa Rica before accepting a professorship in Münster and then at the TU Darmstadt.
ABSTRACT
On 11 December 2019, the European Commission published the European Green Deal that aims to make Europe the first carbon-neutral continent by 2050. The European Green Deal emphasizes the coordination of EU's objectives in the climate and environmental, social and economic fields and maintains the EU's climate governance idea to date: on the one hand, to advance European integration with the Green New Deal, and on the other hand, to consolidate and strengthen the EU's role as a leader in global climate governance. While the European Green New Deal could offer great opportunities for the EU, the content of the European Green Deal itself has been questioned and the implementation of the measures has been challenged by insufficient funding for the green transition, political differences among EU Member States and global geopolitical instability. The aim of this report is to set out the opportunities for the future of Europe arising from the European Green New Deal and the problems that may be encountered in its implementation.
