🤝 Last week in Brussels, EASAC President Lise Øvreås met with Sabine Henzler, Director for Strategy and Impact at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, to further collaboration under the Memorandum of Understanding between the two institutions.
➡️ #EASAC looks forward to continued cooperation with the JRC to inform EU policymaking.
🛡️ Shielding Europe from Energy Price Shocks and Shortages by Accelerating Change
⚡ Europe is facing its biggest energy crisis in a century, mandating an accelerated transition to home-grown renewable energies. Today, we have launched a new Commentary which emphasises that radical energy system transformation and integration is a strategic imperative.
👉 Read the full Commentary here: https://easac.eu/publications/details/energy-system-integration
#EASAC #Energy #EnergyCrisis #EnergyTransition #ItsScience #Science4Policy
In a letter to the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), leading scientists, including #EASAC experts, urge the #IPCC to fix loopholes in its carbon-accounting rules.
They warn: splitting land-use and #energy carbon accounting lets countries claim #CO2 cuts not reflected in real emissions across the whole life cycle.
🌱 Read it here: scienceonbiomass.org/
🗓️ Join us online on 16 April 2026 at 15:00 CEST for the launch of a new #EASAC Commentary on #Energy System Integration.
📈 As debates intensify in Europe over soaring energy prices, affordability, and security of supply, the Commentary provides a timely roadmap for action. #ItsScience
Register here 👇
https://easac-events.eu/event/energy-system-integration
Join our livestream on 16 Apr 2026, 15:00 CEST. With debates in Europe intensifying over how to mitigate the impact of soaring energy prices, affordability, security and investment priorities, EASAC’s new Commentary provides a timely roadmap for action.
For evidence and recommendations, see the #EASAC Report on the Security of Sustainable Energy Supplies:
👉 https://easac.eu/publications/details/security-of-sustainable-energy-supplies-1
⚠️ South-East Europe’s #energy security faces heightened pressure amid escalating geopolitical tensions, including the wars in #Iran and #Ukraine, which are disrupting energy supplies and driving up prices.
♻️🔋 New pipelines are not the answer, said Neven Duić, Co-Chair of the #EASAC Energy Steering Panel at an event hosted by the Institute of Energy for South-East Europe (IENE) at @europarl_en last week. Instead, he urged the region to unlock its renewable potential.
The #EU Governance Regulation and National Energy and Climate Plans are vital to Europe’s #EnergyTransition.
In feedback to a call for evidence by the @EUCommission for the review of the #EnergyUnion and #ClimateAction governance regulation, #EASAC urges it to use this revision to:
📋 Enforce common reporting standards
⚖️ Strengthen accountability
📈 Address energy poverty systematically
The EASAC Energy Steering Panel submits response to a public consultation and call for evidence by the European Commission to help shape the upcoming revision of the Governance Regulation on the Energy Union and Climate Action.
💡 “It is important that the voice of science, channelled through the academies of #Europe, is heard and has an impact on #energypolicy decisions,” says Alessandro Allegra, EASAC’s Energy Programme Director.
🇪🇺 Alessandro joined EASAC in November 2025. Previously employed by the European Commission’s Science, Policy and Ethics Unit, he brings knowledge of and expertise at the science-policy interface to #EASAC.
Learn more: https://easac.eu/programmes/energy
#EASAC works across 3 #science4policy programmes: #Energy, #Environment and #Biosciences & Public Health.
🔬 But what are biosciences, actually? And why do they matter for policy, industry and society? Here, we explain the key principles and disciplines.
🧬 Learn more: https://easac.eu/programmes/biosciences
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