Sustainable Earth Modelling Economics

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Sustainable Earth Modelling Economics

The SEME Division analyses the transition to sustainability, helping identify and evaluate low carbon, sustainable strategies. The approach used is multidisciplinary, with strong use of quantitative methods based on data science, integrated modeling and experimental and behavioral economics.

Objectives

  • Evaluate the low carbon transformation of the energy, land and climate sectors;
  • Evaluate behavioural and traditional policy interventions for promoting pro-environmental behavior;
  • Assess green innovation and its determinants;
  • Study the interplay between various sustainable development goals;
  • Identify robust policy strategies to climate risks and uncertainties;
  • Identify technological and societal transition pathways;
  • Study climate induced migration.

SEME Projects

  • UNITES: Uncertainty Integration for a Transition in Energy and Sustainability

    Geopolitical and socio-economic uncertainties are putting the European and Global energy transitions…


  • BELIEFS: Climate-related Beliefs and Low-Carbon Transition Dynamics

    The transitioning to a low-carbon society, as mandated by the Paris Agreement…

  • SEME Publications

    Policlim: A Dataset of Climate Change Discourse in the Political Manifestos of Forty-Five Countries from 1990 to 2022

    Sanford M., Pianta S., Schmid N., Musto G.
    2025, British Journal of Political Science, doi: 10.1017/S0007123425100719


    Beyond the limit: The estimated air pollution damages of overshooting the temperature target

    Rodés-Bachs C.,Drouet L., Rafaj P., Tavoni M., Aleluia Da Silva Reis L.
    2025, Science Advances, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adu7590

    SEME Models

  • FASST(R) - FAst Scenario Screening Tool

    FASST(R) is a source receptor model, an R version of the reduced-form…


  • WITCH - World Induced Technical Change Hybrid model

    WITCH (World Induced Technical Change Hybrid) is an integrated assessment model designed…

  • Division Director

    Cristina Cattaneo

    Division Manager

    Contacts

    Via Bergognone, 34 – 20144 Milano (MI)
    [email protected]

    RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment leverages two leading international centers for economic and environmental research: Resources for the Future – RFF, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change – CMCC.

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