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A two-day kick-off Meeting was successfully held on July 15 and 16. The 28 partners met and discussed the main organisational aspects of the project.
Smart Control of the Climate Resilience…
Environmental policies often underperform due to so-called rebound effects, namely behavioural and systemic responses to technical change leading to additional consumption and environmental…
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The article “Economy-wide rebound makes UK’s electric car subsidy fall short of expectations” with the co-authorship of Jaume Freire (ENT Foundation) has been accepted for…
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Smart Control of the Climate Resilience in European Coastal Cities (SCORE) is a four years HORIZON 2020 research project to increase climate resilience in European coastal cities lead by IT…
Smart Control of the Climate Resilience in European Coastal Cities (SCORE) is a four years HORIZON 2020 research project to increase climate resilience in European coastal cities lead by IT…
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This project has been carried out in the framework of the collaboration with ICTA-UAB to supervise the final master’s thesis of the master’s degree “Political Ecology,…
In this article we lay the foundations for a new approach for Jevons Paradox and rebound effects, based on how it is triggered (origin) and how it expands (expansion), and from it, explore…
The research article by Jaume Freire (ENT Foundation) entitled “Governing Jevons’ Paradox: Policies and Systemic Alternatives to Avoid the Rebound Effect” has been published…
Colombia aims to diversify and decarbonize its energy sector by encouraging the use of non-conventional renewable resources. Policies and/or measures to achieve this will presumably help…
A new article on households energy efficiency with the participation of Jaume Freire (ENT Foundation) has been published. The article, entitled “Environmental rebound effect of…
Specific actions in households like voluntary reducing energy use or changes in consumption patterns, are supposed to have an impact on reducing carbon emissions and so, fighting climate…
The rebound effect reflects the difference between the expected energy savings from energy efficiency, and the real ones, considering the former is higher than the latter. In some extreme…
The article by Jaume Freire (ENT Foundation) entitled ”Energy taxation policies can counteract the rebound effect: Analysis within a general equilibrium framework“ has been…
ENT Foundation joins more than 50 organizations in sending a letter to EU leaders urging the protection of the oceans as a climate action
On 25 September, on the occasion of the…
An energy transition toward clean energy sources would reduce environmental impacts. One proposal to trigger this energy transition uses economic instruments, particularly environmental…
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The Journal “Climate” has published an article titled ”Climate Change Adaptation of Alpine Ski Tourism in Spain” by Luís Campos, Jaume Freire, Aina González…
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Mountain ecosystems are considered to be vulnerable to climate change, with potential detrimental effects including the reduction of the snow seasons, the gradual retreat of glaciers, and…
The article, titled “A scenario-based framework for assessing the economic potential of droughts impavyes” is authored by Jaume Freire (ENT), Christopher Decker and Jim Hall. It’s…
Estimating the potential economic impacts of drought is increasingly prominent in policy discussions on resilience to future population and climate changes. We develop a scenario-based…
Energy efficiency improvements reduce the costs of energy services, and under some circumstances, increase the available income. This generates an additional increase of consumption of…
