Enabling Framework Dialogue – 22 October 2019
COP21 RIPPLES is organising, on Tuesday 22nd October, the Brussels Policy Dialogue, to discuss the adequacy of the global response to the 2015 Paris Agreement. We will present a synthesis of key findings and discuss their implications for climate policy, with a focus on technology, finance, industrial transformations and the political economy. Ramiro Parrado will […]
Striving to align investment decisions to a 1,5°C trajectory: EU taxonomy and EU climate benchmarks – 22 October 2019
RFF-CMCC-EIEE Webinar | 22 October, 2019 – h. 12:00 pm CEST Striving to align investment decisions to a 1,5°C trajectory: EU taxonomy and EU climate benchmarks Presenter: Sara Lovisolo, Group Sustainability Manager, London Stock Exchange Group Moderator: Massimo Tavoni, Director of RFF-CMCC EIEE and Full Professor at Politecnico di Milano The Technical Expert Group on […]
Evidence for sharp increase in the economic damages of extreme natural disasters – 7 October 2019
Climate change has increased the frequency and intensity of natural disasters. Does this translate into increased economic damages? To date, empirical assessments of damage trends have been inconclusive. A new study demonstrates a temporal increase in extreme damages, after controlling for a number of factors. Coronese M., Lamperti F., Keller K., Chiaromonte F., Roventini A., (2019), […]
Second Lead Author Meeting for the Working Group III – 30 September 2019
From 30 September to 4 October, IPCC Working Group III will organise the Second Lead Author Meeting in New Delhi, India Chapter outline to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) is available here. EIEE Participants: Elena Verdolini: Contribution to Chapter 16: Innovation, technology development and transfer Valentina Bosetti: Contribution to Chapter 1: Introduction and Framing […]
Kick-off meeting of the ENGAGE project |18-20 September
As the world faces the risks of dangerous climate change, policy-makers, industry and civil society leaders are counting on Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) to inform and guide strategies to deliver on the objectives of the Paris Agreement (PA). The “Exploring National and Global Actions to reduce Greenhouse gas Emissions“- ENGAGE rises to this challenge by […]
European Research and Innovation Days – 25 September 2019
Bringing stakeholders together to shape future research and innovation policy at Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels. European Research and Innovation Days is the first annual policy event of the European Commission, bringing together stakeholders to debate and shape the future research and innovation landscape. On 25 September Elena Verdolini will be in High Level Panel on […]
Elena Verdolini awarded a ERC Grant for her innovative project – 4 September 2019
Will the digital revolution act as an enabler or as a barrier to reach our emissions reduction target? Elena Verdolini, senior researcher at RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE), CMCC Foundation and Assistant Professor at Università degli Studi di Brescia, was awarded a ERC grant for her project focused on the interplay […]
Econometric Models of Climate Change Conference – 29/30 August 2019
The Econometric Models of Climate Change Conference (EMCC-IV) aims at promoting an interdisciplinary approach to the detection and attribution of climate change, cross-fertilization between climate science, economics and econometrics, and econometric estimates of climate impacts and policy evaluation. More info about the conference program is available here. EIEE researchers participate in the Conference on Friday […]
Projections of electricity demand in European cities using downscaled population scenarios – 18 September 2019
September 18, 2019 Seminar | h. 12:30 – 13:30 pm CEST Venezia – VEGA, aula CANCELLETTO, primo piano Speakers: Gianni Guastella Stefano Pareglio Introduced by: Ramiro Parrado, CMCC Foundation – Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Abstract This work is an attempt to estimate future electricity demand in cities based on current population projections. In […]
NAVIGATE Kick-off meeting 11-13 September 2019
The NAVIGATE kick-off meeting will take place on 11-13 September 2019 at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Potsdam, Germany. NAVIGATE (“Next generation of AdVanced InteGrated Assessment modelling to support climaTE policy making”) is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme and carried out by a consortium of 15 […]
