CER podcast: Do states need to use more economic coercion to drive climate action?

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🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This week’s CER podcast features speakers from our recent economics conference on ‘The politics of climate change’ at Ditchley Park. Panellists included Suzi Kerr of the Environmental Defence Fund, the European Commission’s Arianna Vanini, Beata Javorcik of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank’s Stéphane Hallegate, whose remarks we included in the first half of this episode. They spoke about whether we needed tougher measures against laggard countries in the fight against climate change. They also discussed whether carbon border adjustment mechanisms would work, and how developing countries could be brought on board. In the second half of the podcast, Rosie Giorgi asked her CER colleagues Elisabetta Cornago and John Springford for their takes on CBAMs, climate clubs and more.

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0:00.0	From the Center for European Reform, this is the CEO podcast.
0:04.1	Poson us seriously the question of the
0:05.9	future that we want, and we all
0:08.1	all together, the courage to it
0:09.8	for us in Germany is the
0:11.9	beckrentness to the European Europe
0:13.7	of our state's resolve. A strong
0:16.1	united Europe is a necessity for the world because
0:18.2	an integrated Europe remains vital to our
0:20.1	international order. This is the moment for Europe world because integrated Europe remains vital to our international order.
0:21.3	This is the moment for Europe to lead the way towards a new vitality.
0:27.6	Hello and welcome to the Centre for European Reform podcast. I'm Rosie Georgie, the CER's media
0:33.7	coordinator and host of the Ask the CER podcast. Today's episode is in a different format, though.
0:39.8	It's the first of two which used the audio from our annual Ditchley Economics Conference,
0:44.6	which we held in Oxfordshire in November. Before we kick off, we'd like to say thank you to the
0:49.7	City of London Corporation and the European Climate Foundation for their help in supporting the event.
0:55.1	This year's conference could only focus on one thing, the politics of climate change.
0:59.6	It coincided with the final weekend of the UN's climate change conference in Glasgow, COP26,
1:04.7	which brought together 200 countries to set out plans for keeping global warming well below 2 degrees
1:10.6	Celsius, preferably
1:11.7	1.5 degrees. But in the absence of a formal global accountability mechanism for climate action,
1:18.3	how can we ensure that everyone delivers on their pledges? Should the EU and the West be using
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