• CERAWeek
  • March 18 - 22, 2024

Artur Runge-Metzger

European Commission, EU

Director, Directorate General for Climate Action

Artur Runge-Metzger, Director, Directorate-General (DG) for Climate Action, European Commission (EC), took up his current position on 1 January 2016. The directorate covers international and EU climate strategy and economic assessment and evaluation, and EU domestic legislative initiatives related to households; land transport; waste; agriculture and forestry; carbon capture, use and storage; financial instruments for EU innovation; monitoring; reporting; and verification. Since 1 September 2003, Dr. Runge-Metzger was first Head of Unit, and since 2009, Director, focusing on international and domestic climate strategy, international climate change negotiations, climate finance, land use and monitoring and reporting. He was one of the EU lead negotiators, Co-Chair of the Ad Hoc Working Group (2013–14) preparing the Paris Agreement, and Vice President of the UNFCCC Bureau (2010–12). Previously, Dr. Runge-Metzger spent two years as Head of Operations in the EC Delegation to Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo. From the end of 1997 until 2001, he worked in DG Development and DG Environment in Brussels on a range of environmental issues, particularly climate change in developing countries. He joined the European Commission in 1993, when he was first responsible for the bilateral cooperation covering agricultural policies, rural development, and the environment in the EC Delegation in Harare, Zimbabwe. After his university education, Dr. Runge-Metzger began his professional career in 1985 at the University of Göttingen, Germany. His main scientific and lecturing topics were natural resources economics and development economics, including extensive field research in rural West Africa. He holds a doctoral degree in agricultural economics.

Sessions With Artur Runge-Metzger

Thursday, 14 March