Crises are times of painful struggle but also open the opportunity for deep, transformative change. This talk will examine the different ways Europe, North America, and China are responding to the war in Ukraine and to the climate crisis. It will explore the changes brought about by thirty years of international climate negotiations, the shock of a major war on Europe’s economies, and consider what the challenges are that still lie ahead.
This event is part of the Jean Monnet Network on EU-Canada Relations, which is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union
Miranda Schreurs
Miranda Schreurs' main research areas are in international and comparative climate policy, environmental politics, and low-carbon energy transitions. She is involved in projects examining the energy transitions in Germany and Japan; climate policies of Europe, the United States, and China; and the politics of high-level radioactive waste disposal. In 2011 Schreurs was appointed by Chancellor Angela Merkel as a member of the German Ethics Commission on a Safe Energy Supply. From 2008 until 2016 she served as member of the German Advisory Council on the Environment and is vice chair of the European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Councils.
Schreurs has her BA and MA from the University of Washington and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She has researched and taught at various Japanese universities and for a period of three years conducted research at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University supported by a grant awarded by the MacArthur Foundation. She was a tenured associate professor in the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park before becoming director of the Environmental Policy Research Center and Professor of Comparative Politics at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2007.
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