A5057647935- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
- Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
- Capital Investment and Risk Analysis
- Smart Grid Energy Management
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Energy Efficiency and Management
- Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials
- Electric Power System Optimization
- Calibration and Measurement Techniques
- Construction Project Management and Performance
- Infrared Target Detection Methodologies
- Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
- Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies
- Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
- Simulation Techniques and Applications
- Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry
- Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
- Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
Delft University of Technology
2023-2025
CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
2013-2024
RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment
2020-2023
Politecnico di Milano
2013-2022
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2020
Pennsylvania State University
2017-2019
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
2012-2018
Marche Polytechnic University
2016
Eni (Italy)
2011
Maniero Elettronica (Italy)
1988
This paper presents the overview of Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) and their energy, land use, emissions implications. The SSPs are part a new scenario framework, established by climate change research community in order to facilitate integrated analysis future impacts, vulnerabilities, adaptation, mitigation. pathways were developed over last years as joint effort describe plausible major global developments that together would lead different challenges for mitigation adaptation...
Energy is crucial for supporting basic human needs, development and well-being. The future evolution of the scale character energy system will be fundamentally shaped by socioeconomic conditions drivers, available resources, technologies supply transformation, end-use demand. However, because energy-related activities are significant sources greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions other environmental social externalities, also influenced acceptance strategic policy choices. All these uncertainties...
Abstract Long-term mitigation scenarios developed by integrated assessment models underpin major aspects of recent IPCC reports and have been critical to identify the system transformations that are required meet stringent climate goals. However, they criticized for proposing pathways may prove challenging implement in real world failing capture social institutional challenges transition. There is a growing interest assess feasibility these scenarios, but past research has mostly focused on...
Benefit-cost analyses of climate policies by integrated assessment models have generated conflicting assessments. Two critical issues affecting social welfare are regional heterogeneity and inequality. These only partly been accounted for in existing frameworks. Here, we present a benefit-cost model with more than 50 regions, calibrated upon emissions mitigation cost data from detailed-process IAMs, featuring country-level economic damages. We compare countries' self-interested cooperative...
Climate adaptation actions can be energy-intensive, but how feeds back into the energy system and environment is absent in nearly all up-to-date scenarios. Here we quantify impacts of entailing direct changes final use on investments costs, greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution. We find that needs for increase considerably over time with warming. The resulting addition capacity power generation leads to higher local pollutants, costs. In short medium term, much added fossil-fuel based....
Buildings are key in supporting human activities and well-being by providing shelter other important services to their users. are, however, also responsible for major energy use greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions during life cycle. Improving the quality of provided buildings while reaching low demand (LED) levels is crucial climate sustainability targets. Building sector models have become essential tools decision support on strategies reduce GHG emissions. Yet current significant limitations...
The levels of investment needed to mobilize an energy system transformation and mitigate climate change are not known with certainty. This paper aims inform the ongoing dialogue in so doing guide public policy strategic corporate decision making. Within framework LIMITS integrated assessment model comparison exercise, we analyze a multi-IAM ensemble long-term greenhouse gas emissions scenarios. Our study provides insight into several critical but uncertain areas related future environment,...
This paper describes the WITCH - World Induced Technical Change Hybrid model in its structure, calibration, and implementation of SSP/RCP scenario implementation. The is a regionally disaggregated hard-linked based on Ramsey type optimal growth detailed bottom-up energy sector model. A particular focus modeling or technical change RnD investments analysis cooperative non-cooperative climate policies. Moreover, 2016 version now includes land-use GLOBIOM model, air pollutants, as well...
The feasibility of achieving climate stabilization consistent with the objective 2°C is heavily influenced by how effort in terms mitigation and economic resources will be distributed among major economies. This paper provides a multi-model quantification commitment 10 regions world for diversity allocation schemes. Our results indicate that policy uniform carbon pricing no transfer payments would yield an uneven distribution costs, which lower than global average OECD countries, higher...
We investigate the long-term global energy technology diffusion patterns required to reach a stringent climate change target with maximum average atmospheric temperature increase of 2°C. If anthropogenic is be limited 2°C, total CO 2 emissions have reduced massively, so as substantial negative values during second half century. Particularly power sector should become from around 2050 onwards according most models used for this analysis in order compensate GHG other sectors where abatement...