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The Think2030 Dialogue Sweden 2023 will gather decision-makers and analysts from policy, business and research across Europe to debate the key sustainability issues at stake for EU policy.
Logos Think2030 and Sweden2023.eu. Graphic: SEI
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The Think2030 Dialogue Sweden 2023 will gather decision-makers and analysts from policy, business and research across Europe to debate the key sustainability issues at stake for EU policy.
The Think2030 Dialogue Sweden takes place in the framework of the activities of Think2030 platform, created by the Institute for European Environmental Policy in 2018 to provide science-policy solutions for a more sustainable Europe. This event is a follow-up to the latest Think2030 biannual conference that took place in Paris in 2022.
The event will be held in Stockholm on 20 April in direct connection with the informal meeting of EU environment ministers. This provides a unique opportunity to gather high-level representatives from EU member states to reflect on the outcome of the informal ministerial meeting and focus on the EU’s sustainability goals achieving the common vision described in the European Green Deal.
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Graphic: Think2030 Dialogue Sweden / Harry Woodrow, SEI
9:15-9:40 Welcome: Navigating crises through sustainability
9:40-10:00 Opening remarks: The agenda for the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU and ways forward for sustainability in the EU
10:00-10:45 Policy panel: Can the EU become the world’s number one exporter of sustainability and resilience?
Moderated by: Robert Watt, Engagement Director, SEI
11:15-12:30 Parallel Science & Policy Sessions 1 & 2
Session 1: Energy transitions and the cost of living: how to strike the right balance between short term fixes and long-term solutions to the energy crisis?
Co-leads: IDDRI & BC3
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Session 2: Climate security and trade in times of multiple crises
Co-leads: Mistra & IISD
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13:45-15:00 Parallel Sience & Policy Sessions 3 & 4
Session 3: Innovation and industry transition: towards a green industrial strategy
Co-leads: Formas & SEI
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Session 4: European Green Deal 2024 and beyond: Vision and priorities for the EGD 2.0?
Co-leads: IEEP & SIEPS
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15:15-15:45 Closing panel: Priorities for presidencies of the EU Council to raise the ambition of future post-2024 European Green Deal
Conversation leaders: Robert Watt, Engagement Director, SEI & Ng’endo Machua-Munio, Communications Officer, SEI
15.45-16.00 Final remarks
Graphic: Logos / Harry Woodrow, SEI
Feature / On 20 April in Stockholm, SEI hosted the Think2030 Dialogue, converging policy makers, business leaders and researchers from across Europe.
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Perspective / Three lessons from Sweden's low-carbon policies in the time of energy crisis and recommendations to address climate change and social inequality.
SEI brief / An exploration of the distributional impacts of policy responses to the energy price crisis in the EU, with a focus on low-income households in Sweden.
SEI report / Green public procurement can help cut the EU's greenhouse gas emissions. This report details how to boost this policy tool in construction and road transport.
SEI brief / Technology and climate mitigation are driving a transformation in road freight. The brief sets out the benefits and challenges for sustainability in the sector.
Past event / What risks and opportunities are surfacing as we begin 2023? What issues warrant greater attention? Tune in as expert panellists offer their perspectives.
Perspective / SEI's Derik Broekhoff offers recommendations on regulating net-zero standards and criteria for the UN Secretary General's High Level Expert Group (HLEG).
SEI brief / This policy brief finds that while Estonia and Poland have set goals to grow green public procurement, few mandates exist to make them happen.
SEI brief / Green choices in public procurement can help EU Member States reach their climate goals. This brief compares the policies of Sweden and the Netherlands.
SEI report / Households in the EU will feel the impact of efforts to decarbonize the heating and transport sectors. What can be done to promote a just transition?
Other publication / This policy brief analyses the direct effects of the war in Ukraine and explores several integrative policy approaches to mitigate these implications.
Journal article / This study analyses Bosnia and Herzegovina’s environmental finance to facilitate future sustainable finance prioritization.
Feature / SEI Affiliated Researcher Pete Erickson lays out the benefits and drawbacks – mostly benefits – in the recently passed transformative climate law in the US.
Perspective / The North Sea countries all have the necessary finance, economic diversity, technical knowledge and ample renewable energy potential to break their dependency.
Feature / The proposed EU deforestation law only protects against the conversion of land defined as "forests". Read the Trase analysis on this crucial topic.
Perspective / War, pandemic and the growing threat of climate change make the need to invest in energy efficiency all the more urgent. The technology already exists.
SEI brief / An exploration of the distributional impacts of policy responses to the energy price crisis in the EU, with a focus on low-income households in Sweden.
Media advisory / Join our dialogue convening EU environment ministers, member states and European Commission officials, researchers and policy analysts on EU policy challenges.
Media coverage / "With the kind of regulatory approach that the EU is taking, they are removing possibilities to use biogas," said SEI's Måns Nilsson in a recent debate.
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