Abstract. Ambitious climate policy targets by developed countries towards carbon neutrality created a necessity to model the impact of climate policy on macroeconomic and socioeconomic indicators. Academic literature suggests that Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model representing the entire economy, linked with a TIMES model reflecting the energy sector in detail, proved to be an...
The decarbonization of the energy system will not impact uniformly the different activities of the economy. Countries and sectors producing materials, equipment and services related to reducing GHG emissions (such as RES technologies, batteries, energy saving equipment, RES fuels) will benefit from the eenrgy system transformation whereas activities related to the generation of GHG emissions...
The National Energy and Climate Plan 2030 (PNEC 2030) is the most recent instrument defining the Portuguese decarbonisation strategy. In a 2030 horizon, it sets ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gases, incorporating renewable energies, improving energy efficiency, and increasing energy security.
This study compares renewable energy sources (RES) and natural gas’ environmental impacts...
The World Energy Council’s (WEC’s) Energy Trilemma Index tool ranks 127 countries on their energy system performance through 3 dimensions: energy security, energy equity, environmental sustainability. The goal of the Index is to provide insights into a country’s relative energy system effectiveness in each dimension and together. Highlighting challenges and opportunities for improvements, for...
Tourism is a cross-cutting economic activity with a wide-ranging impact on the environment, climate and economy, in particular on the regions’ economic growth, employment and social and sustainable development. For quite a long time, the development of tourism was based on economic goals – income generation, export of services, job creation. However, with the emergence of tourism monoculture...
