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).
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
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.
Thanks for the invitation to our colleagues from the Department of «Economic Analysis and Political Economics» and the Cátedra de Economía de la Energía y del Medio Ambiente.
We hope you have enjoyed the conference!
In the last two months, Joanilio Teixeira, Emeritus Professor at University of Brasilia, Brazil, has visited the Faculty of Business and Economics. Joanilio research is focused on the study of Heterodox Macroeconomics.
Last February 25th, Joanilio presented, in the framework of the Macroeconomics Seminar, the conference entitled «Controversies in Heterodox Macroeconomics: Post-Keynesians Vs. Kaleckians».
You’ll always succeed if you start citing Bertolt Brecht: «The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error», and ending citing Bhaduri «Nothing is more destructive to a political system that the lack of hope for a better future», as Joanilio did. In between, the Kaleckian vision of the economy, seasoned with an incredible carreer, really close to some of the big names of the economy, was unraveled.
At the same seminar, our team member Óscar Dejuan presented the paper «Kaldor’s theories of distribution» published in Revista de Economía Crítica.
Thank you Joanilio for the visit and for the presentation.
We hope to see you soon again!
The Global Energy and Environmental Economic Analysis Research Group (GEAR) from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) has signed a new contract with UNEF to develop the 2017-2018 macroeconomic status report of the solar photovoltaic sector in Spain.
The report will present a detailed economic, social and environmental assessment of the current situation of the solar photovoltaics Spanish sector in an MRIO context.
The report is going to be presented ending May in the UNEF’s headquarter in Madrid.
GEAR acknowledges UNEF the confidence in the Academic Research, as helps to spread to the society and to the economy the scientific knowledge.
