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After failing to fully recover from the last financial crisis, the pandemic poses major new challenges for banks. However, this time, banks are not the problem, but part of the solution. By providing credit to the economy, banks play a crucial role in fighting the pandemic by ensuring the transmission of fiscal and monetary stimulus to the economy. Nevertheless, banks are not among the winners of ...

The European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) – the financial pillar of the Investment Plan for Europe – has been one of the good news stories to emerge in a decade of economic uncertainty. Launched by the Juncker Commission and the EIB Group in 2014, it has gone well beyond its target of €500 billion in mobilised investments. In the meantime, the Covid-19 pandemic has led to the ...

As the next wave of information technology matures, many commentators worry about the job disruption that automation technology will bring. In a recent policy brief released by the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future, MIT economist Daron Acemoglu and his co-authors argued that the United States currently taxes machinery and equipment too little compared to labor, thereby encouraging ...

We are living on our ground and with our ground. It feeds us, cools the earth`s atmosphere and we need it for housing, for leisure and for work. Since conservative investments lost their economical appeal, our land became an international and highly requested asset. Rising rents is one of the main symptoms. Our social market economy, our community and our success in dealing with climate change are ...

Carbon Tracker and Finance Watch invite you to join us for a discussion on the risks linked to fossil fuel finance and the policy solutions available to address that risk. The threat of climate change is disrupting the entire fossil fuel system, with profound consequences on financial stability and geopolitics. We are in a doom loop where fossil fuel finance enables climate change and climate ...

The EU’s taxonomy regulation aims to reorient capital flows towards a more sustainable economy. A unified classification system should enable investors to distinguish between activities that contribute significantly to a sustainable economy and those that do not, and to invest accordingly. The current proposal for a “green taxonomy”, published in March by the European Commission’s ...

Workers of the future will need new sets of skills to compete. Recent advances in technology are changing how we live, communicate and do business, disrupting traditional industries and redefining the employee-employer relationship. Thousands of routine and low-skill jobs will be eliminated by automation, A.I. and digital hyper-connectivity. However, these same advances present new opportunities, ...

This course teaches the R programming language in the context of statistical data and statistical analysis in the life sciences. We will learn the basics of statistical inference in order to understand and compute p-values and confidence intervals, all while analyzing data with R code. We provide R programming examples in a way that will help make the connection between concepts and ...

Digital Agricultural Technologies (DATs) are innovations that enable farmers and agribusiness entrepreneurs to leapfrog to increase their productivity, efficiency, and competitiveness, facilitate access to markets, improve nutritional outcomes and enhance resilience to climate change. These technologies range from mobile apps to digital identities for farmers to solar applications for agriculture ...

2020 was set to be a “super year” for nature and the planet. Then COVID-19 hit. The COP15 on Biodiversity, hosted by China, is postponed to 2021, as is the Climate COP26 hosted by the UK. Interestingly, the pandemic is also a stark boost to this agenda: it reminds us that we face permanent disaster if we do not act immediately to safeguard biodiversity and ecosystems. On 20th May, the EU has ...

In line with its COVID-19 response, the UNFCCC secretariat is currently not convening any physical meetings. But the work in 2020 remains critical for making progress on climate change and, as the Executive Secretary has outlined, is not in any form on hold. While the subsidiary body sessions (SB 52) have been postponed to 4–12 October 2020, arrangements for continuing work through virtual ...

Many experts assess the risk of a further collapse of the banking and financial system as very high. If this proves true, society and politics should be better prepared this time and not have to rescue the banks and financial markets at the expense of society again. Otherwise, there is a threat of a serious political crisis of legitimacy, a further rise of anti-democratic movements and an ...

This event will bridge policy and market perspectives, discussing how power sector regulations and carbon pricing mechanisms interact and can be aligned to ensure a cost-effective decarbonization of the power sector. A key focus will be keeping these efforts in line with the Paris Agreement while safeguarding the reliability and affordability of electricity systems in transition. Speakers: Luca Lo ...

The goal of this workshop is to bring together scholars from the social sciences working on the various aspects of human consumption of animal products. We want to engage in a discussion about what we know and do not know about the consumption of meat and dairy, its economic and environmental consequences, as well as possible ways to design effective interventions. Topics include, but are not ...

Chair : Alojz Peterle, MEP (EPP) Panellists :Simone d’Alessandro, University of Pisa - Daniel Mügge, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Professor of Political ArithmeticBjorn Döhring, European Commission, Head of Unit for Economic situation, forecasts, business and consumer surveysArthur Turrell, Co-Author of “An Interdisciplinary Model for Macroeconomics” (Oxford Review of Economic Policy, ...

Chair : Elly Schlein, MEP (S&D) Panellists:Tove Maria Ryding,Tax Justice Coordinator at the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad) Sol Piciotto, Emeritus Professor of law of Lancaster University, Member of the Advisory Group of the International Centre for Tax and DevelopmentRichard Murphy, Professor of Practice in International Political Economy at City University, London and ...

Chair : Philippe Lamberts, MEP (Greens/EFA) Panellists: - Elisabeth Hege, IDDRI, Governance and financing of sustainable developmentGaël Giraud, French Development Agency, senior economistMarco Buti, European Commission, Director General of DG EcFin ...

Chair: Kathleen Van Brempt (S&D) Panellists:Martin Spolc, DG EcFin, Capital Markets Union, Head of UnitRens van Tilburg, University van Utrecht, NL and Director of the Sustainable Finance LabYannis Dafermos, Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK ...

Chair: Molly Scott-Cato, MEP (Greens/EFA) Panellists:Fran Boait, Positive Money, Executive DirectorJosh Ryan-Collins, UCL Institution for Innovation and Public Purpose, Head of ResearchThorsten Guthke, Association of German Public Banks, VÖB ...

Chair: Philippe Lamberts, MEP (Greens/EFA) Panellists:Denis Bouget, European Social Observatory, European Trade Union Institute, Emeritus Professor of Nantes UniversityClive Spash, WU Vienna UniversityAnne Bucher, European Commission, Chair of the Scrutiny Regulatory BoardStefan Ulrich Speck, European Environment Agency, Projet manager (sustainability assessments) ...