Denny Ellerman comments on EU energy & climate policy, Energy Union | Energy Today with JM Glachant

http://fsr.eui.eu The Florence School of Regulation presents: Jean-Michel Glachant's Energy Today no.011 16 April 2015, at Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge Massachusetts. Jean-Michel talks with his old friend Denny Ellerman, and is told there already is a European Climate Union, the ETS! Denny Ellerman is former director of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, and the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research at MIT, as well as former area director of the Climate Policy Research Unit at the European University Institute's Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies “Think, you have a Climate Union, it’s called the ETS” “The problem, to my mind, is climate policy is in danger of becoming like what I regard energy security both in Europe and particularly the United States, that it is a justification for everything and for nothing, and with no results.” “It’s a long arduous, painful even process of incremental changes and people finally coming to agree to do certain things and you just move across incrementally and I just think that the Energy Union is a nice sort of banner but notice, it is the Energy Union, it is not the Energy and Climate Union”