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How is the impact of climate change on the economy measured?
Although the economics of climate change is an area that has been developing for decades, there is still a latent debate regarding ‘how much’ and ‘in what way’ this global change will affect our...
How critical is the problem of intermittency in energy transition?
The transition from a fuel-based economy to one that is neutral in greenhouse emissions is the great global challenge of this century, and represents a path of no return if we wish for our species...
Mineral demand for electrified mobility. The dark side of this type of mobility?
The emission of greenhouse gases has only increased over the years despite the increased efficiency of technological systems. This has happened for several reasons, the main one being the increased...
New article published: The potential land requirements and related land use change emissions of solar energy
In this post, we summarize the main results obtained in the article published recently published “The potential land use requirements and related land use change emissions of solar energy”....
Approval of the Travel Policy
Transport has become one of the largest sources of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) worldwide. This sector, in the European Union, is responsible for generating a quarter of total emissions. Moreover, some...
Response to the critics received of our article “The limits of transport decarbonization under the current growth paradigm”
A few weeks ago we published our article (“The limits of transport decarbonization under the current growth paradigm”) “What does decarbonizing transport actually mean?” in which we showed some...
What does decarbonizing transport actually mean?
The European Green Pact considers very ambitious targets for decarbonising the European economy, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030 or cutting emissions in sectors such as...
New journal article: “Just energy transitions to low carbon economies: A review of the concept and its effects on labour and income”
Today, our society is more aware than ever of the point of no return where it stands. We are initialising a process of energy transition of historical proportions and profound multidimensional...
Call for Expressions of Interest for the submission of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IF) 2020
The Group of Energy, Economy and Systems Dynamics (GEEDS) of the University of Valladolid, Spain, is interested in receiving Expressions of Interest of potential candidates for the Marie...