为了为下一代提供可持续的环保能源，需要绿色创新，使用不排放二氧化碳的可再生能源。 在2020年10月26日召开的第203届国会特别会议上，日本首相发表了题为“到2050年实现碳中和和脱碳社会，使温室气体排放总量为零”的演讲。
九州大学全面推进环境和能源科学研究，这是大学的优势，旨在实现碳中和能源社会。 2010年12月1日，在教育、文化、体育、科学和技术部通过“世界顶级研究中心计划（WPI）”后，成立了国际碳中和能源研究所（I2CNER）。
I2CNER 于 2020 年 4 月 1 日收到 WPI 计划委员会的最终评估，该委员会致力于解决日本和世界能源问题的基础研究，建立了国际网络，实现了由海外首席研究人员组成的国际合作体系，并达到了 WPI 标准（“世界 premier” status）。研究人员将根据迄今建立的国际网络，加强与战略伙伴大学（伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校、麻省理工学院、伦敦帝国学院、瑞士联邦理工学院和爱丁堡大学）的合作，加强国际网络，积极招聘各种研究人员，包括年轻、外国和女性研究人员，并加快国际脑循环。该研究所的目标是成为最先进的基础研究基地，为实现碳中和能源社会做出贡献。
此外，I2CNER 于 2019 年 8 月 26 日与伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校建立了战略合作伙伴关系，该校由 Petros Sofronis 主任跨任命，通过相互联合研究，作为减少碳排放的能源快速转换科学的国际研究机构。
该研究所将全力以赴，在能源科学方面创造卓越的研究成果，培养顶尖的领先研究人员。
In order to provide sustainable and environmentally friendly energy for the next generation, green innovation is needed to use renewable energy that does not emit CO2. At the 203rd Extraordinary Session of the Diet held on October 26, 2020, the Prime Minister of Japan delivered a speech entitled "Achieving a Carbon-Neutral and Decarbonized Society by 2050 and Achieving Total Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Zero."
Kyushu University comprehensively promotes environmental and energy science research, which is the strength of the university, aiming to achieve a carbon-neutral energy society. On December 1, 2010, the International Carbon Neutral Energy Research Institute (I2CNER) was established following the adoption of the World Top Research Center Program (WPI) by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
I2CNER received the final evaluation on April 1, 2020 from the WPI Program Committee, which is committed to basic research to solve energy issues in Japan and the world, has established an international network, realized an international cooperation system composed of overseas chief researchers, and achieved WPI standard ("World Premier" status). Based on the international networks established to date, the researchers will strengthen their collaboration with strategic partner universities (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, MIT, Imperial College London, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the University of Edinburgh), strengthen international networks, actively recruit a variety of researchers, including young, foreign and female researchers, and accelerate international cerebral circulation. The institute aims to become a state-of-the-art basic research base that contributes to the realization of a carbon-neutral energy society.
In addition, I2CNER entered into a strategic partnership on August 26, 2019 with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, appointed across by Director Petros Sofronis as an international research institute for rapid energy conversion science to reduce carbon emissions.
Kyushu University will make every effort to create excellent research results in energy science and cultivate top leading researchers.