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...
by GEEDS | Sep 30, 2020 | NEWS
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...
by GEEDS | Jul 23, 2020 | NEWS, NEWS
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...