The GEAR members Ángela García Alaminos, Mateo Felipe Ortiz Moreno, Guadalupe Arce González and Jorge Enrique Zafrilla Rodríguez have received the «6th Emilio Fontela Research Prize in Input-Output Analysis» for their work The Social Footprint of the U.S. Multinationals’ Foreign Affiliates. This distinction has been awarded by the Hispanic-American Input-Output Society (SHAIO) within the 8th Spanish Conference on Input-Output Analysis held in Santiago de Compostela on the 12th Sept of September, 2019.
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.
Last April 28th, GEAR participated in the scientific disclosure radio show «Investiga que no es poco» of CMM radio about the recent publication in Nature Communications. You can listen to the interview from the following link (notice, the interview is in Spanish):
Thank you Román for your great interview. It was a big pleasure to be part of the reference programme of scientific dissemination in Castilla-La Mancha.
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).
Last March 26, the GEAR member Luis Antonio López, was invited by the «Cátedra de Economía de la Energía y del Medio Ambiente» to present the conference entitled «Principales nodos de CO2 asociados al comercio internacional entre China y el resto del mundo» in the framework of the XII Jornada de Econonía y Medio Ambiente» at the Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences, University of Seville.
