Climate change and environmental degradation are an existential threat. The EU has the ambition to become the first climate neutral continent, by reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 55% (compared to 1990 levels) by 2030 and to have net-zero emissions by 2050. Both the energy and chemistry sectors play a significant role in reaching these targets. In recent years, the scientific literature corpus on this topic has grown exponentially, and methods range from qualitative research to detailed quantitative impacts assessment and business models.
To assess progress within the transition towards a climate neutral economy and to study the complex interaction between low carbon technologies and sustainability aspects, a strong need for methods that assess the economic, environmental and societal effects of the low carbon actions taken on industrial and policy levels.
To meet this demand, we organize a PhD expert course on five different, state-of-the-art assessment tools which have a multitude of useful applications in different disciplines (material flow analysis (MFA), techno-economic assessment (TEA), life cycle assessment (LCA), environmental valuation and integrated assessment (IA)). Interchange between these different disciplines is currently limited. As the actual actions for a climate neutral economy are taken at industry and policy level, integration of the different work fields is required.
A five-day event with method lectures, keynote speakers bridging methods to work field applications, and paper presentation sessions with discussants from the pool of participants and senior researchers. Participants will stay in Antwerp from Monday to Wednesday and will subsequently travel to Amsterdam for the second part of the Interdisciplinary School (Wednesday – Friday)
| End of application period: | November 8, 2024 |
| Notification of selected participants: | November 25, 2024 |
| Start registration: | November 25, 2024 |
| Registration deadline: | December 13, 20 24 |
| Final program: | December 23, 2024 |
| Submission deadline full paper: | January 15, 2025 |
| EAERE Interdisciplinary School: | January 27 – 31, 2025 |
The final program will be shared from the beginning of December