by GEEDS | Jul 12, 2021 | NEWS
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...
by GEEDS | May 26, 2021 | NEWS
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...
by GEEDS | Mar 15, 2021 | NEWS
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),...
by GEEDS | Feb 3, 2021 | NEWS
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...
by GEEDS | Jan 19, 2021 | NEWS
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...
by GEEDS | Nov 5, 2020 | NEWS
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...