ECEMP 2022 Conference
Acting on the ambitions to a net-zero EU: roadblocks, challenges, and opportunities October 5-7 2022, online/Brussels This year`s EMP-E Conference under its new name “European Climate and Energy Modelling Platform (ECEMP)” will be held online on October 5-7, 2022. The submission portal and more information about the guidelines for abstracts is now available on the conference website. The deadline […]
Business end-user engagement: first steps in Italy
The key emerging mitigation and adaptation options can be used by local businesses to overcome the challenges of a transition to net-zero. This is quite challenging and not an easy path to follow without the right knowledge, instruments, and objectives. The main objective of this part of the LOCALISED project is to provide end-user solutions […]
2022 Navigate -Cired Summer School
The aim of the 2022 NAVIGATE-CIRED Summer School is to foster scientific exchanges between participants and faculty members about the issue of how to achieve a just and equitable transition to net zero emissions, and the modelling methods relevant to address the different dimensions to this broad issue. What are the short and medium term […]
SWEEEP Webinar series – 2022
A pan-institute Series of Webinars in Environmental and Energy Economics and Policy Environmental, energy, and ecological problems have grown faster than their solutions. Economists have an important role to play to address these issues by using the latest science, rigorous methods and innovative policy solutions.The SWEEEP webinar series aims to convene the academic community to […]
Addressing jointly air pollution and climate change to reduce health-economic impacts
Accounting for air pollution impacts reduces climate mitigation costs without increasing inequality and increases global and regional welfare. A comprehensive integrated assessment modelling framework capturing the most critical interactions between air pollution, climate mitigation and the economy, in the study led by RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE) just published in The Lancet […]
Net zero-emission pathways for reducing the risks for the environment and the economy of climate change
Net zero-emission pathways for reducing the risks for the environment and the economy of climate change An analysis led by RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE) and just published on Nature Climate Change has explored the physical and macroeconomic impacts associated with mitigation pathways with different levels of temperature overshoot. Mitigation pathways […]
Intervention points for achieving carbon neutrality
The first Climate Neutrality Forum (CNF) took place in 2021 bringing together over 1,000 academics and climate policy experts in a multi-hub hybrid in-person and virtual meeting held in Berlin, Oxford, and Milan, on 8-9 September 2021, followed by six weekly webinars in the lead up to 26th Conference of Parties meeting of the UN […]
To understand solar geoengineering, we need the social sciences
n an article for Science’s Policy Forum, experts from a variety of fields consider how the social sciences can inform the understanding, application, and implications of solar geoengineering. Twenty-one scholars from across the scientific spectrum outline the need to include the social sciences in solar geoengineering research in a new article for Science’s Policy Forum. Solar geoengineering is […]
The cost of heatwaves in Europe
Economic losses in Europe are projected to increase by almost a factor of five by 2060 compared to the historical damages experienced and will affect more the areas where heatwave-induced productivity damages are already pronounced, with a clear north-south gradient in economic losses. A study just published on Nature Communications and realized with the contribution […]
Recent technology cost forecasts underestimate the pace of technological change
A comparison of observed global energy technology costs, with forecasts generated by models and forecasts predicted by human experts, showed that both forecasting methods underestimated cost reductions. This suggests that decisions based on forecasts may be overestimating the cost of climate mitigation and points to the need to further improve forecasting methods. A team of […]
