On 10-11/4/2023, the 2nd Conference on the Climate Crisis was organized in Athens, in the Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, on the topic of the contribution of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens to tackling the climate crisis.
(Conference Program)

The aim of the Conference was to present the diverse research and educational activity of the Greek National Academy of Sciences in the subject of the climate crisis and to highlight the contemporary challenges that are being shaped from the perspective of all sciences, especially in the thematic sections:

  • International and Public Policies on the Climate Crisis
  • Climate Crisis in the Mediterranean
  • Climate Crisis and Sustainable
  • Adaptation and Mitigation Actions Climate Crisis
  • Extreme Weather and Natural Disasters
  • Energy and Energy Transition
  • Applications of Informatics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to the Climate Crisis
  • The Climate Crisis from the point of view of Legal Science
  • Climate crisis and Humanities
  • Climate Crisis and Cultural Heritage
  • Climate Crisis and Health
  • Climate Crisis Education and Learning
  • Communicating the Climate Crisis

The Conference was attended by our Department with announcements by Prof. Michael Gr. Vrachopoulos, Ass. Prof. I. Doukas and Ass. Prof. Maria K. Koukou in the Thematic Sections:

  • Thematic Unit: Energy and Energy Transition - 2nd Session
  • Thematic Unit: Climate Crisis and Sustainable Development - 3rd Session

The presentations are available at the following links:

Thematic Unit: Energy and Energy Transition - 2nd Session
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRzBe-1esS4
(Speech by Mr. Vrachopoulos and Mr. Koukos at 1:21:15 and 1:48:36)

Thematic Unit: Climate Crisis and Sustainable Development - 3rd Session
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhmJLeuxS8s (Speech of Dr. Doukas and Dr. Koukou at 00:00:00)