{"59088":{"#nid":"59088","#data":{"type":"news","title":"EUCE Symposium Assesses Energy Policy Progress","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJust a month before the United Nations\u0027 COP15 Climate Summit in Copenhagen, and on the heels of the formation of a joint EU-US Energy Council announced at the EU-US Summit, European and U.S. scholars and policy makers came together at Georgia Tech and Georgia State University to assess the European Union\u0027s progress toward a common energy policy. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOrganized by the European Union Center of Excellence (EUCE) in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, the symposium also delineated obstacles to a unified EU policy.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEUCE Director Vicki Birchfield and Professor John Duffield from Georgia State University, hosted Luisa Ragher, Head of Transport, Energy, Environment and Nuclear Matters Section for the European Commission\u0027s Delegation to Washington, along with scholars from Germany, Britain, France, The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and Spain. These researchers were joined by Ivan Allen College public policy and international affairs professors Marilyn Brown, Paul Baer, Adam Stulberg, and Janelle Knox-Hayes for the two-day symposium.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the past decade, the EU has made rapid progress towards developing a common energy policy, even adopting an ambitious and comprehensive Energy Action Plan based on the EU Commission\u0027s 2007 Communication \u0022An Energy Policy for Europe.\u0022 \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe symposium assessed conditions and events that influenced the progress on forming a common EU energy policy and historical, national, and functional perspectives.   Additional commentary was provided by Jay Hakes, Executive Director of the Carter Presidential library, an author and  expert on U.S. energy policy. Output from the symposium will be an edited book by Birchfield and Duffield with articles by symposium participants from nine European countries on key issues including renewable sources of energy, cutting emissions, nuclear power and energy efficiency. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn its mandate to connect Georgia and Europe and educate the local community about EU affairs, the EUCE also collaborated with the Atlanta Regional Commission on their annual State of the Regions breakfast and arranged for Ragher to join their policy and energy forum as a panelist. Ragher spoke to the 900-strong audience about how the EU influences global debates on climate change, renewable energy, and energy security.  (A video link to this panel resides on the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.atlantafiftyforward.com\u0022 title=\u0022www.atlantafiftyforward.com\u0022\u003Ewww.atlantafiftyforward.com\u003C\/a\u003E website and is accessible through the panel video link below. Play the video entitled \u0022Panel Discussion: Susan Hoffman, moderator\u0022)\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Just a month before the United Nations\u0027 COP15 Climate Summit in Copenhagen, and on the heels of the formation of a joint EU-US Energy Council announced at the EU-US Summit, European and U.S. scholars and policy makers came together at Georgia Tech and Georgia State University to assess the European Union\u0027s progress toward a common energy policy.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"EU-US Scholars and Policy Makers Meet"}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2009-12-14 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:50","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-12-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2009-12-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"59089":{"id":"59089","type":"image","title":"tjg24119.jpg","body":null,"created":"1449176211","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:56:51","changed":"1475894512","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:52","alt":"","file":{"fid":"190842","name":"tjg24119.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tjg24119_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tjg24119_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":40062,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tjg24119_0.jpg?itok=7KjD3VyE"}},"59090":{"id":"59090","type":"image","title":"...","body":null,"created":"1449176211","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:56:51","changed":"1475894512","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:52","alt":"...","file":{"fid":"190841","name":"tpq24025.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tpq24025_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tpq24025_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":29585,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tpq24025_0.jpg?itok=1yM7SGQw"}}},"media_ids":["59089","59090"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.atlantafiftyforward.com\/","title":"Panel Video Link"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.inta.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/listing.php?uID=12","title":"Vicki Birchfield Bio"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.euce.gatech.edu\/","title":"Read more about EUCE at Georgia Tech"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"10033","name":"energy council"},{"id":"6446","name":"energy policy"},{"id":"889","name":"EU"},{"id":"612","name":"EUCE"},{"id":"5352","name":"Vicki Birchfield"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ERebecca Keane\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=rkeane3\u0022\u003EContact Rebecca Keane\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-1720\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}