The Cooler Heads Coalition invites you to a Congressional Staff  and Media Briefing on The European Union’s  Climate Policies: The Effects of the Global Financial Crisis and other Realities with Dr. Gabriel Calzada

King Juan Carlos University
and Instituto Juan de Mariana, Madrid

Friday, November 14th
Noon—1:30 PM
1334, Longworth House Office Building
Lunch Provided

Please RSVP by e-mail to wyeatman@cei.org.
Please call William Yeatman at (202) 331-2270 for further information.

The European Union’s Climate Policies:
The Effects of the Global Financial Crisis and other Realities

Dr. Calzada will discuss the current state of the European Union’s efforts to meet its Kyoto targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to negotiate a second round of reductions to take effect in 2013. He will pay special attention to the effects the current financial crisis and economic downturn are having on climate policy, the negative impacts of the “green” jobs bubble in Spain, the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme, and the breakdown of consensus between EU member nations on what should follow Kyoto.

About the Speaker

Gabriel Calzada is Associate Professor of Economics at the King Juan Carlos University in Spain and Visiting Professor at the Universidad Francisco Marroquin. He founded and is President of the free market think tank Instituto Juan de Mariana. He is also Vice-Director of the Austrian School-oriented scholarly Procesos de Mercado and a Fellow of the Centre for the New Europe. Dr. Calzada is a frequent broadcaster on national television and radio in Spain and has written extensively for popular newspapers and scholarly journals. He currently writes regularly for three major Spanish publications—Expansion, El Mundo, and Epoca.