Will Europe’s climate policy save us all?

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Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer

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4.8 • 274 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Fit for 55 sounds like a plan to get middle-aged people to exercise, but it is in fact one of the most ambitious climate policies on the planet. But is it enough to make a difference? This week, in collaboration with the Open Society European Policy Institute, our favourite climate explainer Emily Stewart breaks down Europe's plan for us. Is Fit for 55 fit for purpose? And can Europe turn it into a reality without sparking a continent-wide social revolt? You can follow Emily on Twitter here and find out more about OSEPI's work here. This episode was produced and sound designed by Wojciech Oleksiak, with editorial support from Katy Lee, Dominic Kraemer and Katz Laszlo. Music by Jim Barne and Blue Dot Sessions. Thanks for listening! If you enjoy our podcast and would like to help us keep making it, we'd love it if you'd consider chipping in a few euros / dollars / pounds a month at patreon.com/europeanspodcast. You can also help new listeners find the show by leaving us a review. This podcast is part of the Are We Europe family. Find more like-minded European podcasts at areweeurope.com/audio-family.Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | [email protected]

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0:00.0	Hey Dominic.
0:07.0	Hey Dominic.
0:24.4	Hi, Katie.
0:25.6	We've got a bit of a special episode for you this week.
0:27.9	As you will probably know by now, we like to think of ourselves as a fairly climaty podcast.
0:32.8	We like the idea of trying to prevent a full-scale climate apocalypse, to put it mildly.
0:37.1	So we have been very interested of late in this thing called Fit for 55.
0:42.0	What is that, Dominic?
0:43.5	Well, like a lot of people, both of us thought at first it was some sort of plan to get
0:48.1	Europeans to exercise more.
0:52.8	The European Union is set to propose its Fit for 55.
0:57.0	But eventually it emerged that it's a climate policy.
1:17.3	A really big policy and one that's potentially going to have some pretty big consequences on all of our lives.
1:23.8	We knew this was a big thing, but if I'm being very honest, both of us were too busy having a holiday over the summer to spend much time digging into what it really means, which is why we're really happy to be bringing you a deep dive into this policy this week.
1:37.8	Before you switch off, because you think that sounds incredibly boring, you do not need to be a policy nerd to enjoy this conversation.
1:43.9	Because the person he's going to be guiding us through this monster be a policy nerd to enjoy this conversation, because
1:44.2	the person he's going to be guiding us through this monster of a policy is someone who's
1:48.2	incredibly good at explaining things.
1:49.7	We're not decarbonising enough. We're all going to die in a flame.
1:53.8	We are teaming up with the Open Society's European Policy Institute to bring you this special
2:00.6	episode. Emily Stewart is one of
2:03.1	their climate specialists. She's a full-time explainer of complicated EU climate policy things. Before we
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