A society that is able to consume and emit low amounts of carbon: this is a priority emerging by international summits  and involving  policy choices, economic strategies, scientific knowledge and technological solutions.

The first Annual Meeting of LCS-rnet (International Research Network for Low Carbon Societies) will be held in Bologna,  12 and 13 october 2009, Royal Hotel Carlton.

LCS-RNet is an international network with a core multidisciplinary focuse on social, human, technological and economic topics and competences which together contribute to understanding the path towards a society with low carbon content.

CMCC (Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change), FEEM (Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei) and ENEA are the italian members of this network, which is promoting an ongoing dialogue which decision makers, business the community policy and citizens; the networks aims to actively contribute to climate change global policy chices by an effective communication of results and outcomes of scientific research.

LCS-RNet  started in Trieste, at the International Forum on low-emissions and low-carbon technologies, a first step towards the Environmental G8 which will take place in Siracusa from the 22nd to the 24th of April 2009, coordinated by the Italian Ministry of Environment Land and Sea, in collaboration with CMCC.

LCS-RNet is currently composed (for Italy) by the Euro-Mediterrenean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC) and by the Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (ENEA); from the French Institutes Academy of Technologies (Academie des Technologies),  Agency of the Environment and Energy (Agence de l’Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l’Énergie ADEME) and the Institute for  Sustainable Development and International Reltions (Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales IDDRI), from the German Wuppertal Institut für Klima Umwelt Energie GmbH; from the Japanese National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) and Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES); from the Korean National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) and from the British UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC).

Web: http://lcs-rnet.org

 Info:

Giulia Galluccio  [email protected] 
Sara Venturini   [email protected]

The Meeting Agenda (pdf)

LCN-RNet concept note (pdf)