EUVP Alumni Webinar - International Partnerships for the European Green Deal
EUVP Alumni Webinar
International Partnerships for the European Green Deal
22 April, 16.00 – 18.00 CET
Climate change and environmental degradation are an existential threat to the entire world. What can we do to turn these challenges into opportunities? How to ensure a just transition into climate neutrality? What are the European Union and its strategic partners doing to aim for a brighter and greener future?
AGENDA
16.00 – 16.10 Welcome address by Ms Hilde Hardeman - Head of the European Commission's Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI)
16.10 – 17.00 Interventions from the speakers:
- Ms Elina Bardram - Acting Director of the Directorate “International, Mainstreaming and Policy Coordination” in the Directorate-General for Climate Action of the European Commission
- Mr Etienne Bassot - Director of the Members’ Research Service at the European Parliamentary Research Service of the European Parliament
- Mr Nicholas W. Sherman - Director for International Energy and Economic Policy at the White House, United States
- Mr Sunny Uppal - Executive Director for Partnerships and Outreach with the Covid-19 Task Force under the Department of Health and Public Health Agency of Canada
- Mr Jeferson Straatmann - Coordinator of value chain initiatives at the Instituto Socioambiental (ISA), Brazil
17.00 – 17.30 Moderated discussion
17.30 – 18.00 Q&A Session
SPEAKERS
Join the EUVP Alumni Webinar to follow the discussion of our distinguished speakers:
- NICHOLAS W. SHERMAN – United States, EUVP Alumnus 2015
Nicholas W. Sherman currently serves as the Director for International Energy and Economic Policy at the White House. Prior to his current role, Mr. Sherman worked at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as Senior Advisor for DOE’s Office of European and Eurasian Affairs where his portfolios included the U.S.-EU Energy Council and the Group of Seven (G-7) Energy Ministers Meeting, as well as bilateral research cooperation engagement with EU Member States.
- SUNNY UPPAL – Canada, EUVP Alumnus 2020
Sunny Uppal joined the Government of Canada in 2011 and has recently been appointed Executive Director for Partnerships and Outreach with the Covid-19 Task Force under the Department of Health and Public Health Agency of Canada. Prior to this, Sunny spent 10 years working with the Department of Environment and Climate Change, where he was most recently the Director for Innovation and Youth Engagement, primarily responsible for promoting new and creative approaches towards operations within the Department and developing a strategic approach towards engaging young Canadians on environment and climate change issues.
- JEFERSON STRAATMANN, PhD – Brazil, EUVP Alumnus 2019
PhD in Production Engineering at University of São Paulo, Jeferson Straatmann is specialized in socio-biodiversity products value chains and collaborative networks. He works at Brazilian Amazon since 2005 with forest products value chains, socio-environmental diagnostics, territorial management plans and social and territorial organization. Jeferson started the work at Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) in 2013, linked to the mission of building sustainable solutions that guarantee collective and diffuse rights and value the socioenvironmental diversity.
- ELINA BARDRAM – EU, European Commission
Acting Director of the Directorate « International, Mainstreaming and Policy Coordination” in the Directorate-General for Climate Action of the European Commission.
- ETIENNE BASSOT – EU, European Parliament
Director of the Members’ Research Service at the European Parliamentary Research Service of the European Parliament.
- Moderator: SARAH SHEIL – EU, European Parliament
Head of Communication and Outreach Unit at the Directorate-General for External Policies of the European Parliament.
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