What are the enabling and limiting factors of solar deployment? New answers thanks to deep learning
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The IPCC clearly acknowledges that behaviour changes and demand-side management are able to substantially limit the reliance on Carbon Dioxide Removal strategies, anyway essentials to stay below 1.5°C of warming…
We are proud to announce that we have been awarded two new research grants on the project “Electricity Reliability and Small Business Performance: Evidence from Pakistan “…
It is given frequently and over a long time, provides an appliance-specific breakdown, is presented in a clear and appealing way, and uses computerized and interactive tools…
End of this week, we will be holding a workshop here at Milano’s Politecnico, with the aim to define a clear framework distinguishing concepts, aims and methods for modeling human behaviour in IAMs…
Besides our specific field of research here at Cobham, there are a number of really interesting initiatives out there focusing on the remote sensing monitoring of pollution sources and biodiversity losses which could potentially make a difference…
According to this op-ed on the NYT, the popularity of behavioral economics follows just from good marketing… to me, much more is at stake!
Agent Based Models are able to incorporate in Energy Choice Models not only monetary factors but also social norms, past experiences, the perception of quality and the information provided to the user…
The two Nobel laureates have actually been fundamental for my research since I started working in the field of climate change economics more than 15 years ago…
Listen to this very pleasant and simple podcast from the Conversation, with prof. Cass Sunstein…
Even the most popular and proven nudges sometimes fail spectacularly, prompting the targeted individuals to do exactly the opposite of what the nudgers intended...
UCLA Anderson Review
Many things… according to Edward Tenner, author of a book on « The efficiency paradox ».
At the household level in China, carbon footprints are very unequally distributed: in 2012, only 5% of the population induced 19% of the total carbon footprint… while 58% of population have footprints down to 10 times lower…
When it comes to climate change, the answer is no… and that goes for both skeptics and believers…
I just came back from Karachi, where we will investigate in the next year how to improve payment rates for electricity thanks to behavioral interventions…
According to ILO, the transition to a green economy will inevitably cause job losses (around 6 million till 2030) in certain sectors but they will be more than offset by new job opportunities (approx 24 Millions ) in others…
Where politics is driven by data, we need a set of ethics to guide that data. But in our rush to deliver on the promises of Big Data, we have not sought one.
Colin Koopma, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon