EERA JP e3s works collaboratively with its members to produce high-quality inputs for progressing policy making at EU and national level on the Social Sciences and Humanities aspects related to the energy and climate fields.
White Paper "A Just Energy Transition in the EU" (2023)
EERA Joint Programme Clean Energy Transition for Sustainable Society (JP e3s) has published a white paper on a Just Energy Transition (JET), addressing both the theoretical and the policy challenges of ensuring that the justice dimension is properly considered and implemented in EU energy transition pathways.
In this paper, JET is intended in the exclusive sense of the European socio-economic and environmental consequences and ethical implications of transitioning from fossil fuels to sustainable energy sources.
Flagship Report on Energy Demand Reduction (2023)
JP e3s has contributed extensively to the EERA Flagship Report on Energy Demand Reduction, having a specific Sub-Programme dedicated to the the topic (Sub-Programme 1).
As Europe powers through the energy transition, climate mitigation and Strategic Autonomy objectives, the report argues that a strong strategy for long-term demand reduction, encompassing all energy-consuming sectors (not only households), is critical.
Despite the clear prevalence of demand reduction as a key tool in transforming our energy systems and the economy as a whole, limited research and policy-orientated approaches exist on this topic, as focus has predominantly centred on the technological, supply-side solutions to furthering the CET.
This report provides a reliable analysis of the state of play of the collective knowledge base on energy demand reduction (IEA, IPCC, etc.) through the lenses of scientists from across Europe, and concludes that the most effective methods to reduce energy demand fuse a combination of three key demand reduction strategies, namely behavioural change, energy efficiency, and energy sufficiency.