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GEF at the Budapest Forum
Mark your calendars for the Budapest Forum on 11 and 12 October! This conference will bring together experts, politicians, and NGO representatives to discuss how to improve the performance of our political systems from a climate and democratic perspective.
About the event
The Budapest forum is an annual event organised by the Municipality of Budapest, Political Capital, and CEU Democracy Institute to push forward the ‘Building [of] Sustainable Democracies’. You can find more information on the programme and speakers here.
The European Energy Governance is a critical component for building and sustaining democratic systems in the EU. The way we envisage our energy systems impacts the very fabric of our societies and, therefore, our common future as Europeans. The war of aggression in Ukraine and the numerous turbulences in the global economic and geopolitical landscape have stressed more than ever the consequences the European energy policy implementation. The wide-ranging impacts extend beyond energy procurement and security, encompassing democracy, environmental sustainability, and social justice.
The current EU energy framework showed its weaknesses over the past couple of years amidst the polycrisis. These uncovered issues, ranging from fossil fuel resource dependency to dependences on single countries. It thereby showed the missing links between EU energy policy and security. The polycrisis also showed the lack of social safeguards and consideration in the EU and energy policy. It showed that the democracy dimension has been severely neglected. And above all, it showed that if the EU had doubled down on its clean energy transition at least a decade earlier, it would have been much more resilient than it is today.
GEF will tackle the future of the EU’s energy project as part of the Budapest Forum with a panel entitled Tomorrow’s Europe – replacing energy at the centre of the European political and democratic project, building on GEF’s Knowledge Community: the Future of the EU’s Energy Project.
Speakers
- Jesse Scott- Research Fellow at the German Institute for Economic Research.
- Stéphane Bourgeois-Leader of Collaborative Low Energy Vision for the European Region and European Relations and Policy Manager at NégaWatt Association.
- Rosa Martínez Rodríguez- Board member of the Green European Journal, member of the political ecology think tank Ecopolítica, and Former Green member of the Spanish Parliament.
- Eero Yrjö-Koskinen-, executive Director of the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP).
- Benjamin Denis- Senior Policy advisor and Head of industrial policy coordination at industriAll Europe.
Moderated by Taube Van Melkebeke- Policy Mnaager (Green European Foundation)
Practicalities
Date and Time: 11th – 12th October
Location: online and CEU, Nador 15, Budapest
Language: The main languages of the event will be English.
Registration: Please find the link to online and on site registration here You can read the full programme here.
This event is organised by the Green European Foundation with the support of City of Budapest, Political Capital Institute, CEU Democracy Institute and with the financial support of the European Parliament to the Green European Foundation. The European Parliament is not responsible for the content of this event.