Workshop on extreme events and energy transitions - Tackling the challenges of climate change by integrating social and complex systems science, Ispra - Main contents
date | September 23, 2019 - September 27, 2019 |
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city | Ispra, Italy |
location | Ispra, Italy |
organisation | European Commission (EC) i |
Energy, environment and climate, Research and innovation,
Human activities exposes us to ever more frequent extreme events such as:
This poses challenges to energy sustainability and actions to tackle climate change through renewable energies.
This workshop aims at exploring how to enable important advancements in this area by integration of complex system approaches with elements of social organisation and adaptation.
The event is open to people from EU countries working on extreme events and energy transition sustainability from both a social and a physical/engineering perspective, like practitioners, PhD students and postdoc/advanced researchers.
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The European Commission is the executive body of the EU and runs its day-to-day business. It is made up of the College of Commissioners, 27 European Commissioners, one for each member state, who are each responsible for one or several policy areas. In addition, the 'Commission' also refers to the entire administrative body that supports the Commissioners, consisting of the Directorates-General and the Services.
The European Commission is the sole EU body capable of proposing new legislation. The Commission also performs an oversight function, monitoring whether European legislation is properly implemented in the member states. In the event of non-compliance, the Commission can coerce a member state to comply by starting a legal procedure at the European Court of Justice.