Towards a Greener Europe: Driving the Green Deal

The discussion will focus on the European Green Deal, a set of policy initiatives first presented in 2019 with the aim of making Europe climate neutral in 2050.

Towards a Greener Europe: Driving the Green Deal

Wednesday 14 October 2020 | 5:00pm - 6:15pm CET

Open to Sciences Po students. Registration is compulsory: please register online

A discussion with Mauro Petriccione, Director General for Climate Action, European Commission.

>Chaired by Enrico Letta, Dean of the Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA).

Mr. Mauro Petriccione has been appointed Director General for Climate Action in March 2018. He joined the European Commission in 1987 and has been working in trade policy since then. From 2014 to early 2018, he was Deputy-Director General of DG Trade, responsible for trade relations spanning a wide variety of subjects including trade relations with Asia, Latin America and countries of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific. He served as Chief Negotiator for the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement; the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement; the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement.

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