EIEE-GREEN Webinar by Thomas Lyon – 20 February 2020
*** Grand Challenges and Local Beliefs: How Belief in Climate Change Relates to Greenhouse Gas Emissions in U.S. Manufacturing Facilities Presenter: Thomas P. Lyon, Dow Chair of Sustainable Science, Technology and Policy Ross School of Business School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan Moderator: Elena Verdolini, Assistant Professor at Università degli Studi di Brescia […]
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 […]
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 […]
Offshore Wind Energy: Where is it going, what can we do about it, and why should we care?- 17 June 2019
Wind energy supply has grown rapidly over the last decade. I will summarize the results of an expert elicitation survey of 163 of the world’s foremost wind experts, aimed at better understanding future costs and technology advancement possibilities. I will focus on offshore wind energy, comparing the expert judgements to data-based forecasts. I then go […]
Urban Road Pricing and the Environment: Lessons from Milano and London – May 21st 2019
Cities have deployed innovative policies to reduce urban pollution and incentivize green transportation. At the same time, cities face unprecedented environmental and pollution challenges. It is time to take stock of experiences, evaluate their effectiveness and see how to improve and expand them. This workshop will discuss the environmental impacts of urban policies for two […]
Capital stranding cascades: The impact of decarbonisation on productive asset utilisation – 9 May 2019
This article develops a novel methodological framework to investigate the exposure of economic systems to the risk of physical capital stranding. Combining Input-Output (IO) and network theory, we define measures to identify both the sectors likely to trigger relevant capital stranding cascades and those most exposed to capital stranding risk. We show how, in a […]
Asset Prices and Climate Policy – 11 April 2019
Presenter Armon Rezai, Institute for Ecological Economics, Vienne University of Economics and Business Moderator Johannes Emmerling, RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE), Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change Foundation (CMCC) Abstract If global warming is to stay below 2°C, there are four types of risks of assets stranding. First, a substantial part of […]
Value of information of Earth Observing Systems – Jan 2019
Presenter: Roger Cooke – Resources for the Future – University of Strathclyde – Delft University of Technology Moderator: Valentina Bosetti – Bocconi University – RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE) – Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici – Italy At the European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE), Roger Cooke is presenting “Using the […]
