The Climate Policy Research Unit (CPRU) is a research group within the European University Institute (EUI)'s Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) under the Loyola de Palacio Chair. The CPRU was established in 2010 at the initiative of Josep Borrell, President of the EUI and former President of the European Parliament, as a means of providing more focus to European climate policy developments. Director of the CPRU is Denny Ellerman, part-time professor at the RSCAS, and recently retired as a Senior Lecturer from MIT's Sloan School of Management. Starting in 2012, the CPRU has been funded primarily by the European Commission (DG Climate Action). The CPRU works in collaboration with the energy and regulatory policy research groups of the Florence School of Regulation and Loyola de Palacio Chair and with the Global Governance Programme at the EUI.
The goal of the CPRU is to provide a reliable source for information, analysis and evaluation of EU climate policies ex-post and a forum for discussion of research carried out in this area among government officials, academics and industry.
Denny Ellerman is also responsible for the climate policy activities of the EUI's Global Governance Programme (GGP) aimed at creating effective governance institutions for dealing with the global problem of climate change.
As of 2012 the CPRU has been funded primarily by the European Commission, but the European Commission bears no responsibility for the content of this web site.
