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New publication in Nature Communications

The GEAR members Luis A. López, María Ángeles Cadarso, Jorge Zafrilla, and Guadalupe Arce have recently published their last contribution in the prestigious journal Nature Communications.

The paper, entitled “The carbon footprint of the U.S. multinationals’ foreign affiliates” presents a novel and insightful contribution in the field of environmental economics. Among other relevant results, the activity of the U.S. multinationals foreign affiliates accounts for more than 0.5 GtCO2 in global terms. More than 1.5% of global emissions. If foreign U.S. multinationals’ activity would be cataloged as a country, it would be ranked the 12th top emitter in the world.

Policy implications behind the results of the paper are clear. Multinational enterprises need to be a part of the solution in the fight against climate change reducing the environmental pressure within their operations and supply chains. A more environmentally sustainable choice of suppliers, the reduction in the use of energy and materials intensive inputs and the technology transfers to affiliates, are some of the key decisions that headquarters have to take into consideration.

A nice paper in a great journal!

We hope you enjoy it!

This work was supported by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (ECO2016–78938-R) and by the “Plan Propio de Investigación” of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM).

LINK TO THE OPEN ACCESS PAPER: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09473-7

UCLM PRESS RELEASE: https://www.uclm.es/es/Noticias/Noticias2019/Abril/Albacete/GEAR

New publication in Environmental Science & Technology

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.

Congrats!!

DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b00221

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

 

NEW PUBLICATION IN THE JCP (MULTIDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION)

GEAR team member, Jorge Zafrila, has recently published the first outcome derived from the multidisciplinary collaboration with some other researchers within the University of Castilla-La Mancha. This new research line evaluates disruptive and new CO2 removal strategies applied to agri-food industries.

This first paper, written by Carlos Alonso-Moreno, J. Julián Garde, Jorge E. Zafrilla, Jesús Canales-Vázquez, Abdessamad Guedari, & Santiago García-Yuste, has been published in the Journal of Cleaner Production and is entitled “The Carbon Dioxide-Rumen Fermentation Processes-strategy, a proposal to sustain environmentally friendly dairy farms”.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.08.295

Link to the paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652618326568

Journal of Cleaner Production, 204 (2018) 735-743. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.08.295

NEW PUBLICATION IN ENERGY ECONOMICS

GEAR team member Luis Antonio López in collaboration with Xuemei Jiang and Dabo Guan, have recently published a new paper in the journal Energy Economics about the how changes in global value chains affect global carbon dioxide emissions.

The paper is  entitled “The global CO2 emission cost of geographic shifts in international sourcing.”

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2018.05.015

Link to the paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988318301828

NEW PUBLICATION IN ECONOMIC SYSTEMS RESEARCH

 

GEAR team members Fabio Monsalve, Jorge Zafrilla, María Ángeles Cadarso, and Post Graduate student Angela García-Alaminos have recently published a new paper in the journal Economic Systems Research about the social implications of European Union Policies within a globalised production system. The paper is  entitled “Is the emperor wearing new clothes? A social assessment of the European Union 2007–2013 financial framework.”

A big congrat!!

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09535314.2018.1431768

Download a free copy of the paper as a courtesy of Taylor and Francis: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/3A6ZDhqP7vyfsYNKBQUC/full