About the Centre
The researchers of the Centre for Environment, Economy and Energy (C3E) operate at the crossroads of today’s turbulent transitions, which constitute key governance challenges and opportunities in Europe and worldwide. The sustainability imperative requires private and public decision-makers to steer our societies towards decarbonised, resource efficient economies as recognised in the European Green Deal, New Generation Europe, in the 2015 Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). If governed successfully, this presents the prospect of rejuvenating our socio-economic and political systems, making them fit for a sustainable future.
The Centre analyses and develops innovative legal and policy instruments that can be used to govern the transitions, within the EU and in its external relations. Positioning ourselves at the interface of academia with political, legal and other societal decision-making, we focus in particular on the international and European governance of the environmental, economic and energy transitions and their interactions.
Today’s transitions entail a techno-economic element about how innovation in different sectors of our (market) economies can come about and conquer the marketplace. Our researchers also pay attention to the governance of democratic transitions, and the ensuing reconciliation of diverging societal values.
Key Themes
- The techno-economic transition
- Democratic transition governance
- Reconciliation of values
- Innovative laws, policies and policy frameworks
- European external relations
News at the Centre
Publications
Post-Brexit Leadership in European Finance
Naar een koolstofcirculaire en CO2-arme Vlaamse industrie
Transnational Security Cooperation in the Mediterranean
Events
Industrial decarbonisation through business model innovation
Hydrocarbons exporters and the EU’s decarbonization plans: what coping strategies?
Public Ph.D. Defense of Inan Izci, METROPOLITAN GOVERNANCE IN DIGITAL AGE: The EU's Influence on Local Governing of Istanbul
News
TDI Yearly 2020 – a vibrant conference on trade launches the 3E Research Centre of BSoG
3E Centre co-leads a study on green public procurement
In the media
The memorandum on the Dostluk field: new opportunities for Turkmenistan and the region (in Russian)
Cancel Keystone XL (in Italian)
Who sets the targets? Expert Q&A on European energy and climate policy
Projects
Power to X and Carbon Capture & Utilization Roadmap for Belgium
Directorate-General for Energy
PLATON - PLATform for Open and Nationally accessible climate policy knowledge
Fridtjof Nansen Institute
The Research Council of Norway
Policy integration: decarbonisation and security of supply in the European Union's external energy policy
Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Jean Monnet Module: The Economics of European (Dis) -integration
Erasmus +
Jean Monnet Module: Europe Explained - Inter-University Summer School on EU Policy-making
Erasmus +
CONNECT - Understanding the international context for Norway's low-emission economy transition
The Research Council of Norway/KLIMAFORSK Programme
Jean Monnet Network: GOVTRAN - Governing the EU's Climate and Energy Transition in Turbulent Times
Erasmus +
Kiertotalous ja tuotepolitiikan ohjauskeinot
Finish Prime Minister's Office
Climate Diplomacy 2019-2020
ADELPHI
German Federal Foreign Office
Hiili- ja ympäristöjalanjälki hankinnoissa – lainsäädäntö ja mittaaminen
Finish Prime Minister's Office
The Climate Friendly Materials Platform
European Climate Foundation
COP21: Results, Implications, Pathways and Policies for Low-Emissions European Societies (COP21-RIPPLES)
European Commission - Horizon 2020
Contextanalyse en roadmapstudie – Vlaamse industrie koolstofcirculair en CO2-arm
VLAIO
DESIGNSCAPES: Feasibility study on (m)apping sustainability in Brussels
BFSJ: Production of fully synthetic paraffinic jet fuel from wood and other biomass
European Commission - FP7
Jean Monnet Chair: rECOncile - Rethinking the European Economy, Ecology, and their Interactions
European Commission - Jean Monnet Chair
Development of the International Soil Protection Law - Institutional Analysis and Making of Concrete Proposals (ECOLOGIC 730)
German Federal Environment Agency
PARENT - Participatory platform for sustainable energy management
European Commission - Horizon 2020
Innoviris Brussels
