GEAR members Mateo Ortiz, Maria Ángeles Cadarso and Luis Antonio López carried out a study on the carbon footprint associated with the activities of multinational companies operating in the European Union. The paper entitled ”The carbon footprint of foreign multinationals within the European Union” is part of the GEAR’s project to evaluate the role of multinational enterprises as key actors in the fight against climate change and the reduction of carbon emissions along global supply chains. A previous paper related to this project was already published in Nature Communications.

In this new paper, the authors reveal that, during 2015, the emissions directly and indirectly generated by multinational’s foreign affiliates operating within the European Union are estimated at 714 Mt of CO2, which accounts for 17% of the total carbon footprint of the European Union. Although most of these carbon emissions are generated by foreign affiliates located in the United Kingdom and Germany, the findings suggest that low-income EU-members receive higher amounts of emissions in relation to the value added created by the foreign affiliates they host.

The paper also provides valuable insights into the potential for multinational corporations to become actors of change in terms of reducing global emissions by taking responsibility for the environmental impacts of their affiliates and suppliers worldwide and by spreading low-carbon practices across countries and industries.

We strongly encourage you to read this great article on a very interesting topic. We hope you like it!

LINK: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jiec.13017

The GEAR members Manuel Tomás, Luis A. López and Fabio Monsalve, have recently published the article entitled «Carbon footprint, municipality size and rurality in Spain: Inequality and carbon taxation» in Journal of Cleaner Production.

In this paper, the authors assess the Spanish households’ carbon footprint for the 2008-2017 period considering the municipality size as well as the urban or rural residential zone. In light of the results, they test whether the carbon footprint inequality among households could lead to asymmetric regressive impacts based on where families live.

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Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095965262031845X 

GEAR group members Luis Antonio López, Maria Ángeles Cadarso and Mateo Ortiz carried out a study on the evolution of CO₂ emissions embodied in Spain’s imports and exports during 2005-2014. In the paper entitled ‘The carbon footprint of the Spanish international trade’ the authors quantify and analyse the CO₂ emissions associated with Spain’s traded products and provide valuable insights on the role played by international trade in the Spanish and European pursuit for low-carbon production and consumption.

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ICE, Journal of Economics is an academic journal published by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism of Spain whose scope is to contribute to the debate of economic policy.

The GEAR members Luis Antonio López (UCLM) and Guadalupe Arce (Complutense University), in collaboration with Xuemei Jiang (Capital University of Economics and Business of Beijing), have recently published «Mapping China’s flows of emissions in the world’s carbon footprint: A network approach of production layers» in Energy Economics. 

In this paper the authors propose a combination of the environmental extended Multiregional Input-Output Model (EE-MRIO), applying a Structural Path Analysis, with the complex network analysis to adequately identify different types of communities or clusters of sector as boost and suppliers of carbon emissions by type of sector (processing exports, non-processing exports and China normal production), type of final demand (consumption and investment) and the different stages of production. 

This approach is an important novelty in the input-output literature because, in our opinion, the research is useful to assess the scope of possibilities that companies of different sectors have regarding reducing their carbon footprint and the limit implied for the transmission of technology between companies in the same sector or companies that relocate their production to China.

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LINK: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988320300785

Some members of the GEAR Group have recently published a new research article in PLOS ONE.

The paper, entitled “Unmasking social distant damage of developed regions’ lifestyle: A decoupling analysis of the indecent labour footprint” presents news insights about the indecent labour footprints. Using the indecent labour database developed by Ángela García-Alaminos to assess the indecent labour footprint, we propose a decoupling analysis to evaluate whether global consumption chains are currently on the decoupling path or not, from a social point of view.

The paper has been written by Ángela García-Alaminos, Fabio Monsalve, Jorge Zafrilla and María Ángeles Cadarso.

And if you can read Spanish, please discover our disclosure piece published in The Conversation about the article:  https://theconversation.com/trabajo-precario-el-dano-que-no-vemos-cuando-consumimos-131275

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GEAR member Ángela García Alaminos has recently published in an open repository a “Social Indicators of Working Conditions Database”. This database compiles five indicators regarding working conditions: fatal occupational injuries, non-fatal occupational injuries, forced labor, part-time employment, and temporary employment. Each of the five indicators is provided for 44 regions and disaggregated by economic activity, which makes this dataset a social satellite account suitable with multi-regional input-output models.

Main sources are specified in the dataset. For further information about the generation process of the dataset, please contact the author at angela.garcia@uclm.es.

The database can be found in Mendeley Data (http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/6h5msdfjk2.1)  under CC BY 4.0 Licence. To use the data, please cite García-Alaminos, Ángela (2019), “Social Indicators of Working Conditions Database ”, Mendeley Data, v1.

The GEAR Group has recently published our’s first contribution developed in collaboration with Enrique Gilles, Faculty of Business, Finance, and Economics EAN University Bogota, Colombia.

The paper, entitled “Nesting a city input–output table in a multiregional framework: a case example with the city of Bogota” presents a novel contribution in the field input-output developments for cities. First, we propose the nesting of the Bogota IO table in an MRIO model with Colombia and the rest of the countries presented in the OECD database. Second, we develope an evaluation of the role of the city of Bogota throughout the Global Value Chains.

We hope this is the first contribution of a productive collaboration with Enrique.

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LINK TO THE OPEN ACCESS PAPER:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40008-020-0185-8

The GEAR Group has recently published the methodological proposal and several results of the 2016’s Photovoltaics Sector Macroeconomic Report in the prestigious journal Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews.

The paper, entitled “Triple bottom line analysis of the Spanish solar photovoltaic sector: A footprint assessment” presents a relevant contribution for the Spanish economy as depicts the economic, social and environmental potential of an energy sector which is expected to be one of the driving sectors of the ecological transition of the Spanish economy.

The paper has been written by Jorge Zafrilla, Guadalupe Arce, María Ángeles Cadarso, Carmen Córcoles, Nuria Gómez, Fabio Monsalve, and María Ángeles Tobarra, all members of the GEAR group and members of the project between UCLM and UNEF for the elaboration of the Macroeconomic Report of the Photovoltaics sector.

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LINK TO THE OPEN ACCESS PAPER:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032119305192

GEAR team members, María Ángeles Tobarra, Nuria Gómez, María Ángeles Cadarso and Luis A. López, in collaboration with Igancio Cazcarro (BC3), have recently published the paper entitled «Is Seasonal Households’ Consumption Good for the Nexus Carbon/Water Footprint? The Spanish Fruits and Vegetables Case». In this paper authors analyse to what extent proximity and in-season consumption of fruits and vegetables consumers are solutions to drive the economy to a more sustainable development.

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DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b00221

Link to the paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.8b00221