European Institute
on Economics and the Environment

The Institute

EIEE’s mission is to improve environmental, energy, and natural resource decisions through impartial economic research and policy engagement. The Institute is committed to being a central focal point for research insights and policy solutions within Europe, and connecting that work internationally.

Our research

Topics

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Sustainable Transitions
to Net-zero & Beyond

Achieving net-zero emissions is imperative for mitigating climate change and ensuring a sustainable future. This goal requires a profound and rapid transformation of our economic, environmental, and technological systems.

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Socio-Economic Assessment
of Climate Impacts & Adaptation

Understanding and quantifying the implications of changing climate and material conditions on the economy, society, and the environment, while assessing their future evolution to design successful adaptive responses.

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Climate, Finance,
Macroeconomics & Trade

Investigating the role of climate change as one of the key drivers of macro-trends in the global financial, economic, and trade systems, and the interaction between them.

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Environmental
& Social Justice

Addressing a range of environmental crises (pollution, climate change, the connected adaptation, mitigation, and transition strategies) requires inclusive approaches that ensure a fair and equitable transition in energy and material use.

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Innovation
& Circularity

Innovation in technology and in economic and social systems is necessary to decouple growth from greenhouse gas emissions and the overexploitation of resources. Innovation, digitalization and circularity play a key role in the achievement of climate neutrality.

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Sustainable
Behaviors

Solving environmental and ecological problems is impossible without understanding how people and organizations behave and promoting more sustainable practices.

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Societal Changes
& Political Economy

Solving environmental problems faces also societal and political challenges, highlighting the role of incentives, political actors, and the role of society as an electorate.

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Health
& Migration

Promoting well-being in the context of rapidly changing material conditions involves assessing adaptation strategies like human migration and reducing future risks to human health.

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Biodiversity
Economics & Policy

Simultaneously addressing biodiversity loss and climate change to identify synergies and co-benefits, and understand trade-offs.

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Resilient Cities

Responding to multiple environmental and social crises through the advancement of urban areas as laboratories and forerunners of societal transformations engaging multiple level of governance.

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Publications

Gilli M., Calcaterra M., Emmerling J., Granella F.

Climate change impacts on the within-country income distributions

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management , Volume 127, September 2024, 103012 - 2024

Henke H., Dekker M., Lombardi F., Pietzcker R., Fragkos P., Zakeri B., Rodrigues R., Sitarz J., Emmerling J., Fattahi A., Dalla Longa F., Tatarewicz I., Fotiou T., Lewarski M., Huppmann D., Kavvadias K., van der Zwaan B., Usher W.

The mutual benefits of comparing Energy System Models and Integrated Assessment Models

Open Research Europe , - 2024

Calcaterra M., Aleluia Reis L., Fragkos P., Briera T., de Boer H. S., Egli F., Emmerling J., Iyer G., Mittal S., Polzin F. H. J., Sanders M. W. J. L., Schmidt T. S., Serebriakova A., Steffen B., van de Ven D. J., van Vuuren D. P., Waidelich P., Tavoni M.

Reducing the cost of capital to finance the energy transition in developing countries

Nature Energy , - 2024

Kelly, David; Heutel, Garth; Moreno-Cruz, Juan; Shayegh, Soheil

Solar Geoengineering, Learning, and Experimentation

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists , - 2024

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ONGOING

Knowledge support for the European Climate and Health Observatory and report on climate, water and health

ONGOING

Adapting to Climate change by QUantifying optimal Allocation of water resOUrces and socio-ecoNomic inTerlinkages