Last week members of the GEAR group travel to Cuenca to attend the International Conference on Regional Science organised by the Spanish Regional Science Association (AECR)

We organized a special session entitled ‘Environmental impacts of global value chains reconfiguration and emerging trends’  in which the progress made in TWIN SEEDS were presented:

• Identifying critical UE carbon emissions risk through global value chains. María Ángeles Tobarra, Luis Antonio López, Ángela García-Alaminos y María Ángeles Cadarso
• The consequences of global reshoring trends in the EU carbon emissions. Mateo Ortiz, Luis Antonio López, Ángela García-Álaminos y María Ángeles Cadarso
• Environmental impact from MNEs technological transfers on right-sourcing strategies. Jorge Enrique Zafrilla, Mateo Felipe Ortiz, Nuria Gomez y Angela García-Alaminos
• Mitigation potentials for EU environment right-sourcing strategies. Nuria Gómez, Fabio Monsalve, Guadalupe Arce y Jorge Enrique Zafrilla

GEAR members also participated in the spetial session ‘Input-Output in regional analysis. Theory and applications’ presenting the following papers:

• Aged-based households’ carbon footprint in Spain: an inequality and carbon taxation approach. Marina Sánchez-Serrano, Jorge Enrique Zafrilla, Guadalupe Arce y Luis Antonio López.
• Capital- and finance-based environmental accounting framework. Manuel Tomás, Luis Antonio López.

In addition, Cristian Soria, a student of the Master’s Degree in Sustainable Growth and Development of our faculty, joined us to present his final degree project which he carried out under the supervision Nuria Gomez in the ‘Young Researchers Session: I have an idea…’:

• La influencia de la actitud medioambiental en las decisiones de consumo: el caso de los adolescentes de Castilla- La Mancha. Cristian Soria y Nuria Gómez.

Some members of the GEAR group attended the 10^th Hispanic-American Conference on Input-Output Analysis organised by the Faculty of Economics and Business (University of Oviedo), which took place in Gijon on 4, 5 and 6 September.

Guadalupe Arce and Fabio Monsalve taught the course ‘Herramientas para la visualización de datos. Una aplicación para modelos MRIO’ in the fifth edition of the Input-Output Analysis School (ESAIO).

The group organized a special session entitled ‘Environmental, Social and Economic impact of global value chains reconfiguration’  in which the following papers were presented:

• Tracking the local drivers and global suppliers of urban scope-3 CO2 emissions: An application to the city of Madrid, 2013-2019. Jacobo Ferrer Hernández, Sergio Alvarez
• Quantifying the impact of shifting trade patterns on employment por Oscar Lemmers
• Environmental impact from MNEs technological transfers on right-sourcing strategies por Jorge Enrique Zafrilla Rodríguez, Mateo Felipe Ortiz Moreno, Nuria Gomez Sanz, Angela García Alaminos

In addition, the following papers were also presented by GEAR members in other sessions:

• Environmental impact from spanish food waste. Nuria Gomez Sanz, Daniel Molina Duarte, María Ángeles Tobarra Gómez, Pilar Osorio Morallón
• Climate-related direct, indirect and induced impacts of migration: evidence for Bangladesh. Marina Sánchez Serrano, Guadalupe Arce González, Angela García Alaminos, Jorge Enrique Zafrilla Rodríguez.

The GEAR research group attended the 30^th International Input-Output Association Conference (IIOA), hosted by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and held in Santiago de Chile from the 1^st to the 5^th of July 2024.

The group organized a special session entitled «Environmental impact of global value chains reconfiguration», in which the following papers were presented:

• The consequences of global reshoring trends in the EU carbon emissions. Mateo ORTIZ, Luis A. LOPEZ, Ángela GARCíA-ALAMINOS, Maria Angeles CADARSO.

• Recent trends in international trade and their consequences on carbon footprints. Ángela GARCÍA-ALAMINOS, Maria Angeles CADARSO, Luis A. LOPEZ, Maria A. TOBARRA-GOMEZ .

• Multinationals’ technological transfer on right-sourcing strategies: an environmental assessment for the European Union. Jorge E. ZAFRILLA, Ángela GARCíA-ALAMINOS, Nuria GOMEZ, Mateo ORTIZ

• The environmental unintended consequences of a potential EU-MERCOSUR free trade agreement. An analysis for the agri-food industries in Spain. Yolanda PENA-BOQUETE, Fernando DE LA TORRE CUEVAS

Additionally, additional papers were presented by the GEAR members in different sessions:

• Climate-related direct, indirect and induced impacts: evidence for Bangladesh. Guadalupe ARCE, Marina SÁNCHEZ, Jorge E. ZAFRILLA, Ángela GARCíA-ALAMINOS.

• Capital- and finance-based environmental accounting framework. Luis A. LOPEZ, Manuel TOMÁS.

• Aged-based household carbon footprint in Spain: an inequality and carbon taxation approach. Marina SáNCHEZ, Guadalupe ARCE, Luis A. LOPEZ, Jorge E. ZAFRILLA

PROGRAM OF THE CONFERENCE: here

The 15^th Conference of the Spanish Association for Energy Economics (AEEE) was held at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, at the lovely city of Toledo, from 29^th to 31^st January 2020.

Since our University would be hosting the event, some GEAR members led the organization of the 2020 edition of the conference in close collaboration with Leticia Blázquez, from the UCLM’s Talavera and Toledo Campuses. All together worked hard to successfully ensure a wonderful conference for all the attendees and speakers.

GEAR members participated not only as organizers but also as speakers in the academic sessions of the conference. The research works presented by GEAR members at the conference were:

• «Emission Taxes, Feed-in Subsidies and the Investment in a Clean Technology by a Polluting Monopoly». García-Alaminos, A., and Rubio, S. J.
• «Unequal rural and urban household carbon footprint in Spain and the impact of carbon taxation», Tomás, M. Á., López, L.A. and Monsalve, F.
• «The carbon footprint of Spain’s photovoltaic industry». Zafrilla, J.; Arce, G. and Monsalve, F.
• «Environmental and economic impacts of Brexit in the consumption of vegetables and fruits in the UK», López, L.A., Tobarra, M.A., Carrascal, A. and Ortega, R.
• «Towards energy transition: sustainability assessment of a hybrid solar thermal – Biomass gasifier power plant in Tunisia». Banacloche, S., Herrera, I. and Lechón, Y.
• «Triple bottom line analysis of the Spanish solar photovoltaic sector: A footprint assessment». Zafrilla, J., Arce; G., Cadarso, M.-Á., Córcoles, C.; Gómez, N., López, L.-A., Monsalve, F. and Tobarra, M.-Á.
• «Economic and environmental impacts of decarbonization through a hybrid MRIO multiplier-accelerator model», Dejuan, O., Ortiz, M. and Portella-Carbó, F.
• «The European Union’s carbon emissions under the control-based criterion». Ortiz, M., López, L.A., and Cadarso, M.A.
• «Viabilidad económica y medioambiental de la estrategia de ecoinnovación “CO2-AFP Strategy”». Gueddari, A., Zafrilla, J., García-Yuste, S., Alonso-Moreno, C., Canales-Vázquez, J. Paper awared with the best flash session prize of the conference. Congrats Abde!
• Inter-institutional research project: «Red Temática de Modelización Energética para una Transición Energética Sostenible (MENTES)». Coordinated by Cadarso, M.A. and presented by Arocena, P.

Reaffirming our commitment to the environment and sustainability, the GEAR group promoted a sustainable conference from the organization and did our best to get the provisions needed during the conference from eco-friendly suppliers. Moreover, we assessed the carbon footprint of the event and found that it reached 10.2 tonnes of CO2, approximately. The estimate covered all the direct and indirect carbon emissions generated in the organization and by all attendees. These findings were presented at the closing ceremony, where it was announced that the conference’s carbon footprint would be totally compensated by the Vice-rectorate for Research of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM).  

Finally, we also want to highlight the remarkable achievements reached by two GEAR young members, Ángela García-Alaminos and Santacruz Banacloche, who received two of the Energy Economics Young Researchers Awards of the conference. Santacruz obtained a travel grant for his outstanding work and Ángela was awarded the 1^st Prize for Young Researchers for the article with the highest quality and relevance in the field of Energy Economics.

Congratulations to Ángela and Santacruz for their prizes and all GEAR members and Leticia Blázquez for making possible such a great conference!

PROGRAM OF THE CONFERENCE: http://www.aeee.es/xv_congreso_aeee/en/program/

In 2019, the GEAR research group has actively participated in the two main events of input-output analysis worldwide. The 27th Conference of the International Input-Output Association (IIOA), which took place in Glasgow, Scotland, from 30 June to 5 July 2019. And the 8th Conference of Input-Output Analysis of the Hispano-American Society of Input-Output Analysis (SHAIO) which took place in Santiago de Compostela from 11 to 13 September 2019.

The papers presented by the GEAR group in Glasgow were:

• «The Social Footprint U.S. Multinationals’ Foreign Affiliates», García-Alaminos, A., Zafrilla, J.E., Arce, G. and Ortiz, M.
• «Students commuting choices: Carbon footprint and environmental identity», Collado, A., Gómez, N. and Olivos, P.
• «Assessment of the sustainability of Mexico green investments in the road to Paris», Banacloche, S., Monsalve, F., Cadarso, M.A. and Lechon, Y.
• «Environmental and economic impacts of Brexit in the consumption of vegetables and fruits in the UK», López, L.A., Tobarra, M.A., Carrascal, A. and Ortega, R.
• «Degrees of separation and carbon embodied in China’s supply chain networks in processing exports and normal production», Arce, G., López, L.A. and Jiang, X.
• «Assessing consumption-based carbon emissions for the city of Bogota, Colombia», Gilles, E., Ortiz, M., López, L.A. and Cadarso, M.A.
• «Impact on emissions, employment and the balance of trade of the decarbonization of the electricity production and transport in the EU. A MRIO multiplier-accelerator model.», Dejuan, O., Ortiz, M. and Portella-Carbó, F.

The papers presented by the GEAR group in Santiago were:

• «Assessing consumption-based carbon emissions for the city of Bogota», Ortiz, M.; Gilles, E.; Cadarso, M.A. and López, L.A.
• «The Social Footprint of the U.S. Multinationals’ Foreign Affiliates», García-Alaminos, Á; Ortiz, M.; Arce, G. and Zafrilla, J.E.
• «Students commuting choices: Carbon footprint and environmental identity», Collado, A.; Olivos, P. and Gómez, N.
• «Spanish Household Energy Footprint of Urban and Rural Settlements», Tomás, M. Á.; López, L.A. and Monsalve, F.
• «Degrees of separation and carbon embodied in China’s supply chain networks in processing exports and normal production», Arce, G.;  Jiang,  X. and López, L.A.

Great Conferences!! Great cities!! Great moments!! Great memories!!

Luis Antonio López, Mateo Ortiz y Manuel Tomás participated in the yearly AEEE Conference “XVI Congreso de la Asociación Española para la Economía Energética. Transición energética, industria y empleo”. This year’s edition took place in the beautiful city of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.

The papers and posters presented were:

·         Ortiz, M., López, L.A. and Cadarso, M.A.: Huella de carbono de multinacionales extranjeras dentro en la Unión Europea.

·         Tomás, M.: Consecuencias ambientales de la desigualdad en los hogares de España: Un estudio a través de la huella de carbono de los hogares.

PICS FROM THE EVENT.