ClimateXChange and the Energy and Society network at the University of Edinburgh would like to welcome you to a Panel discussion and Open meeting on
‘Energy and Climate Policy Making: understanding policy effectiveness, expertise and the role of evidence’ with guest speakers Jan Rosenow and Paul Cairney
The panel discussion will take place on Friday 9th June from 14.00 – 15.30 in the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI), High School Yards, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ.
Please register for tickets to the event via the link below:
Event description
With the Scottish Government considering itself to have the “most ambitious climate change legislation anywhere”, the state of transition to a low carbon energy system in Scotland is pronounced. With the early stages of the low carbon transition in energy involving a focus on the electricity sector, the potentially more complex and uncertain sectors of heating and transport are now attracting increasing policy attention.
As the low carbon transition in Scotland reaches a critical phase this event will consider how we might determine whether policy is effective, efficient and equitable, and also how evidence is considered in the policy development process. The event will involve an introduction to the ClimateXChange project ‘Policy Effectiveness in Energy Policy’ from Mark Winskel and Niall Kerr, followed by short presentations from Jan Rosenow and Paul Cairney on the policy making process, understanding policy effectiveness and the role of evidence and experts. The room will then be open to questions for invited panellists and others for a discussion around the issues of policy effectiveness, evidence and expertise, and the policy making process.
Jan Rosenow
- Jan is a leading expert in energy efficiency policy, who has a professional background as an academic, policy advisor and consultant. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand (CIED) based at Sussex Energy Group (SEG) of SPRU, the University of Sussex, and an Honorary Research Associate at the Lower Carbon Futures Group of Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute leads the European energy efficiency work of the Regulatory Assistance Project, a global think tank working on a transition to a sustainable and fair energy system. His research in recent years as focused on the effectiveness of energy efficiency policies throughout Europe, including a comparative review of housing energy efficiency interventions for ClimateXChange. His website is http://www.janrosenow.com/
Paul Cairney
- Paul is Professor of Politics and Public Policy, at the University of Stirling. He is a specialist in British politics and public policy, currently focusing on the ways in which policy studies can explain the use of evidence in politics and policy, and how policymakers translate broad long term aims into evidence informed objectives. As part of the ESRC Centre on Constitutional Change he was funded from 2013-15 to examine the policy capacity of Scottish institutions in the lead up to the referendum on Scottish independence. He has published widely in recent years including his most recent book ‘The Politics of Evidence-Based Policymaking’, 2016.
His blog on public policy is here - https://paulcairney.wordpress.com/