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In cities across Europe, journalists and many others have made evening plans for an event taking place next Tuesday an ocean apart from them: the U.S. elections on 5 November will have millions of Europeans glued to TV and phone screens in the wee hours to see where the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is headed. Those who stay awake long enough on this side of the Atlantic will find out how many of the predictions made at our CLEW #PressClub - part of the Aspen Institute Germany's ‘Road to Election’ programme - hold true. There, journalists from Brussels, Paris, Berlin and Warsaw debated what the U.S. vote might mean for climate and energy policy in Europe – and found that Europe can no longer afford to anxiously look on whenever voters in the U.S. head to the polls. Catch up here to prepare for Tuesday night 🎥https://lnkd.in/dny5v4bF And also check out the analysis by Brussels-based U.S. journalist Dave Keating from October, where he describes how the EU braces for safeguarding climate targets under a possible second Trump term 🔗https://lnkd.in/dJdDhmSk

🇮🇹 Our journalism network manager Milou Dirkx is in Bologna for the Arena for Journalism in Europe climate conference, make sure to say hi! On Saturday she will moderate a panel on populism and climate disinformation, with Patryk Strzałkowski and Clare Carlile Together with journalists from around Europe, CLEW covered the rise of right-wing populism and what it means for climate action. You can find the full package here: https://lnkd.in/evyWFw3F

You want to get a foot into the door of EU reporting, but are struggling to identify the right door? How to see through the forest of Brussels institutions, come up with ideas for investigations, focus only on what really matters? Check out my digest of what Claire Stam, Lise Witteman, Kwangyin Liu 劉光瑩 & Rowan Emslie discussed at the Clean Energy Wire | CLEW conference.

You want to get a foot into the door of EU reporting, but are struggling to identify the right door? How to see through the forest of Brussels institutions, come up with ideas for investigations, focus only on what really matters? Check out my digest of what Claire Stam, Lise Witteman, Kwangyin Liu 劉光瑩 & Rowan Emslie discussed at the Clean Energy Wire | CLEW conference.

Watch out for 6 November! Our CLEW Press Club with Dave Keating Juliette Portala Alicja Ptak and Benjamin Wehrmann had 3 main insights for me: 👉 The US election outcome will matter big time for climate and energy policy and a 2nd Trump presidency could herald the end of multilateral #climate policy, also because 👉 Europe looks as unprepared as ever to sweeping changes in the US geopolitical approach and the general shift towards a multipolar world. Especially countries like Germany have failed to back their "Zeitenwende" up with enough action. Also, with the EU commission just forming, a weakened French president and new French government and a German coalition in disarray (and the UK in apparently still busy navel-gazing) there's no obvious leadership on climate in sight. 👉 Most concerning for me, several of the US journalists in the call wondered how little the European public took the possibility of a coup or civil unrest seriously. I admit I am always trying to caution on "Weltuntergangsszenarien" but the rethoric out of the US and their warnings got me thinking. ❓ What do you think? Is Europe prepared for all eventualities? What will Europe's story be on 6 November? Plenty to discuss over the next 4 weeks, so join the other events of the The Aspen Institute series Atlantik-Brücke e.V. American Council on Germany

Interested in the US election’s impact on European climate and energy policy? Sign up for our online Press Club tomorrow to get more insights!

There is a general feeling of dread in Europe over the possibility of Trump taking power again. But there is also inertia in the face of such an immense challenge. This is particularly true for climate change. EU officials say they will protect the Paris Agreement from Trump2. But the reality is that the situation is very different from 2017, and climate efforts right now are politically much more vulnerable. My article for Clean Energy Wire:

CLEW goes all transatlantic next week 👉 CLEW's Editor in Chief Sven EGENTER joins a panel NYU Center for European and Mediterranean Studies to talk about progress (or lack of) in the #energytransition https://lnkd.in/eKr9PaiK 👉 CLEW will host its Press Club to discuss: How will the outcome of the US election influence Europe's energy & climate policy? Join us for insights from across the continent from Dave Keating Juliette Portala Alicja Ptak & Benjamin Wehrmann https://lnkd.in/esxmAdmu 👉 At least 8 (!) CLEW Network members are set to report from the Hamburg Sustainability Conference 7-8. Aniket N. will make sure that CLEW readers won't miss anything important 👉 We'll watch out for insights from the Berlin climate & security conference Auswärtiges Amt (Federal Foreign Office) Germany with Jennifer Morgan and foreign minister Baerbock https://lnkd.in/eQkjuizt 👉 We'll get more on #climate and international relations Embassy of Ireland, Berlin – Botschaft von Irland Berlin (closed door) with a focus on Africa's leadership 👉 Our own #COP29 fellowship collaboration with Stanley Center for Peace and Security will get its kick-off meeting with Julian Wettengel Milou Dirks 👉 Plus the day-to-day updates on German energy & climate policy and a Dispatch with the latest from Italy.

Curious how the US elections will impact the EU? One month before the culmination of the race for the White House, Clean Energy Wire | CLEW and the Aspen Institute Germany invite expert journalists from France, Poland, Germany and Brussels to the CLEW Press Club to discuss the election's impact on the EU.