Simone Tagliapietra is Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe; Research Fellow at Bruegel and Adjunct Professor in Energy, Resources and Environment at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. His research activity focuses on climate and energy issues. He works on the EU climate and energy policy, on the political economy of EU decarburization, on green industrial policy, on just transition and on global climate governance. With a record of numerous scientific publications, he is also the author of Global Energy Fundamentals (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and L'energia del mondo (Il Mulino, 2020). His columns and policy work are frequently published and cited in leading international media such as the Financial Times, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, Die Zeit, El Pais, Corriere della Sera, Il Sole 24 Ore, and others. He holds a PhD in Institutions and Policies from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.
- A green industrial policy for Europe, with R. Veugelers, Bruegel (2020)
- Global Energy Fundamentals: Economics, Politics, and Technology, Cambridge University Press (2020)
- L'energia del mondo, Il Mulino (2020)
- Energy in Africa Challenges and Opportunities, with M. Hafner and L. De Strasser, Springer (2018)
- The Politics and Economics of Eastern Mediterranean Gas, Claeys&Casteels (2017)
- The European Gas Markets, with M. Hafner (editors), Palgrave Macmillan (2017)
- Energy Relations in the Euro-Mediterranean: A political economy perspective, Palgrave Macmillan (2017)
- The Geoeconomics of Sovereign Wealth Funds and Renewable Energy, Claeys&Casteels (2012)
The notion of Green New Deal is increasingly becoming popular around the world. This course introduces students to this innovative form of policy-making, discussing its main objectives and policy instruments. To do so, the course covers a wide range of topics from global decarbonization trends to global environment protection and biodiversity conservation. It also introduces a host of key concepts that underpin energy, climate and environmental policy analysis, as well as their related economic and social policies. The course pays particular attention to the political economy issues related to Green New Deals, such as the distributional effects of climate policy, the just transition challenge and the important issue of green industrial policy.
This class is geared to provide a good energy background to students who have previously not had much exposure to the wide array of issues that encompass the energy policy arena. Topics covered include: oil; gas; electricity (including traditional and new generation resources); alternative transportation fuels; energy efficiency options across the transportation, industrial, and buildings economic sectors; climate change, and energy in developing countries. Students learn how to make “back-of-the-envelope” calculations regarding the scope of a given problem or a proposed solution. They also learn how to evaluate problems and suggest solutions within a two-page policy format that is used widely both in the public and private sectors.
This course provides a grand tour of EU energy and climate policy. It aims at offering students a comprehensive overview of the various policy dimensions characterizing this fascinating space: energy policy and climate policy themselves, but also industrial policy, fiscal policy, social policy, and foreign policy. The course pays particular attention to the political economy and governance aspects of the EU energy and climate policy, highlighting its fundamental drivers of change and discussing in a critical manner its challenges and potential prospects. While the course provides an EU-level overview on this set of issues, it also offers specific insights on individual EU countries’ energy and climate policy developments. Each class will be introduced by a short “Energy and climate news corner”, where students will shortly present in class the most important global development in this space, so to get used of being up to speed with ongoing energy and climate policy developments, at the EU level but also globally.
