Ángela García Alaminos, a researcher with the GEAR group, participated as a speaker at the ConCiencia2 por el clima event, held on September 23 at the Antiguo Instituto in Gijón. The event was organized by The Conversation and the Climate Change Chair of the University of Oviedo.
In the roundtable titled “Development, Economy, and the Welfare State in the Context of Global Change”, she shared her insights alongside biologist Fernando Valladares (CSIC) and chemist Olga Martín Alonso (Aclima), in a discussion moderated by Lorena Sánchez (The Conversation).
Ángela addressed key issues, including the implications of potential restructuring of global value chains and the environmental impact of international trade, offering a critical economic perspective on the challenges posed by the ecological transition in vulnerable contexts.
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 10th 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 30th 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 1st to the 5th 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
The 15th
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 29th
to 31st 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 1st
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!
