About
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
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What's new
News
3E Researchers win 2nd place in the G-2 Hackathon on the WTO
3E Research Team continues series of Circular Economy expert workshops with focus on green claims
3E Research Centre hosts an expert workshop on Circularity in EcoDesign
Publications
The European Union’s international climate leadership: towards a grand climate strategy?
Taking stock of EU climate governance: key challenges
The international regulation for the protection of the environment in the development of marine renewable energies in the EU
Events
The EU and India: Climate Action - State of Play
EU Policy Instruments on Sustainable Trade
The European Union in international affairs #EUIA21
In the media
EUIA Podcast episode 3
EUIA Podcast episode 2
The climate match (in Italian)
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 +
