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…
Jaume Freire (ENT) has published a new article about energy efficiency and the rebound effect in the Journal of Cleaner Production. The article entitled “The influence of energy…
Some progress has been done during the last years on the methods and provision of empirical evidence on the direct and indirect rebound effect. However, these methods are complex, and…
Jaume Freire (ENT) has published a new article about the rebound effect in the journal Energy. Specifically, the article entitled “A new way to estimate the direct and indirect…
On 27 March, the workshop “Water supply and water stress- roles for Economic Instruments?” was held at Pati Llimona (Barcelona). Organized by the Institute for European…
The EU Energy Union Strategy is one of the 10 key priorities for the current European Commission and it aims to provide “secure, sustainable, competitive and affordable energy”.
In…
Energy Policy journal publishes in its number 102 (March 2017) a new article by Dr. Jaume Freire (ENT) on energy efficiency and the rebound effect on European households entitled…
The EU Energy Union Strategy is one of the 10 key priorities for the current European Commission and it aims to provide “secure, sustainable, competitive and affordable energy”.
In…
The electric vehicle is called to play a central role in the short term given the relevance of the transport sector in terms of its contribution to the consumption of fossil fuels and the…
When an energy efficiency improvement occurs at the household level, several mechanisms, grouped under the name of the rebound effect, increase the available income and consumption,…
Now available in the journal Ecological Economics the article by Jaume Freire (ENT), David Vivanco and Ignasi Puig (ENT) entitled “Economic structure and energy savings from energy…
The article by Jaume Freire (ENT), David Vivanco and Ignasi Puig (ENT) entitled “Economic structure and energy savings from energy efficiency in households” has been accepted in…
This July the new book of Jaume Freire (ENT) entitled “Energy Efficiency and the rebound effect. Concepts, methods and policies” (in Spanish) has been released. It is one of the…
Sustainable Water Resources Management has published the article “Effects of the hydraulic infrastructure on economic growth: evidence from Catalonia”, by Jaume Freire and Ignasi…
Public infrastructure has a positive effect on labour productivity and growth. However, different types of infrastructure produce different magnitudes of effects. This article contains an…
The document “Strengthening Sustainability and fostering Accountability. 2016 Country-Specific Recommendations in Support of the European Semester Cycle” is led by Green Budget Europe,…
The electric vehicle is called to play a central role in the short term given the relevance of the transport sector in terms of its contribution to the consumption of fossil fuels and the…
Spain is facing serious economic challenges. The public debt in 2013 reached 92.10 per cent of GDP and the unemployment rate in December 2013 was at 25.8 per cent. In this context, there is…
