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Reply to Fthenakis et al., (2022) (refused to be published by Energies, MDPI)
We are forced to published on our webpage a reply to a paper, Fthenakis et al (2022) [1], which responding to Seibert and Rees (2021) [2] unfoundedly criticizes our work de Castro et al 2020 “Standard, Point of Use, and Extended Energy Return on Energy Invested (EROI)...
GEEDS looking for a Postdoctoral researcher
The Energy, Economics and Systems Dynamics group (GEEDS) of the University of Valladolid is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join its team working on the European projects H2020 LOCOMOTION “Low-carbon society: an enhanced modeling tool for the transition to...
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 economic systems. In the early 1970s, social sciences began to make the...
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 –and the majority of living beings– to continue to exist in favourable...
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 demand for goods and services in the world today (economic growth),...
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”. Republished from Basque Centre for Climate Change. Summary In the current...
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 studies say that climate scientists tend to travel by plane more often...
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 results obtained with our MEDEAS model on the limits of technological...
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 transport by 90% by 2050. Objectives of similar ambition are considered by...
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 implications. Since human and environmental spheres are interlinked, the...
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 Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IF) 2020 call in the...
MEDEAS models methodology article published: integrating global biophysical and socioeconomic constraints in the energy transition
After four years of intense work, the Research Group of Energy, Economy and Systems Dynamics of the University of Valladolid (GEEDS-UVa) is pleased to announce that we have just published the scientific article that describes the methodology of the MEDEAS models, for...