Europe in the New Energy World Order

Date: 19 Oct 2010
Speaker(s): Lykke Friis
Venue: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Part of the APCO Worldwide Perspectives on Europe Series

The cold war era was characterised by a bipolarity based on ideologies and nuclear arms. The post cold war era will increasingly be defined by energy. Power and economic welfare will depend on a country’s or region’s access to the world’s decreasing fossil fuels or the development of renewable energy.

The cold war era was characterised by a bipolarity based on ideologies and nuclear arms. The post cold war era will increasingly be defined by energy. Power and economic welfare will depend on a country’s or region’s access to the world’s decreasing fossil fuels or the development of renewable energy.

Lykke Friis is the Danish Minister for Climate and Energy and Minister for Gender Equality a well known scholar of European Politics and a former adjunct professor and prorector of Copenhagen University. She is an alumna of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

In partnership with the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and  LSE’s Department of Geography and the Environment.

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