On Friday 28 April 2009, David Buchan, senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, will launch his latest book, Energy and Climate Change: Europe at the Crossroads from 6-6:45pm.
Few books have been written about the European Union’s energy policy, partly because its past development has been sporadic and lop-sided. But climate and energy security concerns have now given Europe the over-arching goal of moving away from imported fossil fuels to a low-carbon economy. This book covers the major re-design of European energy policy in 2007-9. Its style makes it accessible to a wider public perhaps aware that energy and climate change policy is increasingly being made in Brussels, but still puzzled as to how, or if, this policy’s various elements join up.
David Buchan is a senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and editorial writer at Argus Media. He worked from 1970 to 2006 for the Economist and Financial Times in various posts abroad and in the UK including energy editor for the FT. In that capacity he was named business and finance writer of the year in the British Press Awards of 2003 for a co-authored series on BP. A former FT bureau chief in Brussels, he has written several books on the EU.
The book launch will be chaired by Alex Nicoll, IISS Director of Editorial. It will take place in the fifth floor conference room at Arundel House, 13-15 Arundel Street, Temple Place, London WC2R 3D. The discussion will be followed by an informal reception from 6:45-7:30pm.
Copies of Energy and Climate Change: Europe at the Crossroads will be available at the launch. Visitors will have the possibility of buying extra copies at a discounted rate of £20.
If you would like to attend, please RSVP Leah Charpentier at currentevents@iiss.org or tel: 020 7395 9112
