“We in New York City like to think we’re the best,” began Urban Green Chief Program Officer Cecil Scheib in his opening remarks at last week’s panel discussion, Lessons from Afar: Europe’s Approach to Energy Policy, an event co-presented by Urban Green Council, NYU School of Law and the Sabin Center on Climate Change Law at Columbia University. But, as panelists Nico Kienzl (Atelier Ten), Miranda Schreurs (Freie Universität Berlin), and Marcos Vaquer Caballería (Carlos III de Madrid University) demonstrated, believing you’re the best and being the best are two very different things.