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
Geopolitical and socio-economic uncertainties are putting the European and Global energy transitions…
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) is a source receptor model, an R version of the reduced-form…
WITCH (World Induced Technical Change Hybrid) is an integrated assessment model designed…


