GREAT EXPERIENCE AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON REGIONAL SCIENCE IN CUENCA

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Last week members of the GEAR group travel to Cuenca to attend the International Conference on Regional Science organised by the Spanish Regional Science Association (AECR)

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.

NEW PUBLICATION IN REGIONAL SCIENCE POLICY & PRACTICE

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The GEAR members Marina Sánchez-Serrano, Jorge Zafrilla, Mateo Ortiz and Guadalupe Arce have recently published in Regional Science Policy & Practice the paper entitled “Carbon taxation and related vulnerability of Spanish urban and rural households in a regional level”.

Consumer choices  are critical to reducing CO2 emissions from human activities. Climate policies aimed at reducing the carbon footprint of consumers often have a negative impact on low-income families and rural households with limited access to low-carbon consumption choices.

In this paper, we estimate households’ carbon footprint in Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) by urban-rural location and expenditure attributes and simulate the impacts of a carbon tax on the disposable income of different types of households.

A multiregional input-output model is proposed to assign global carbon footprints to products. This model will help us identify the main driving goods in each type of household’s carbon footprint and evaluate the household’s vulnerability after carbon taxation.

Our findings suggest that high-spending households would face the taxation strongest effects on car fuels and transport services, as they would have an impact of 2% of their total expenditure by the taxation on these products, while this effect in lower-income households would be 0,75%. A tax on basic housing services (electricity and heating) would have a regressive impact, undermining the consumption level of vulnerable households. They would be affected by 2,5%, while higher income households would spend between 1 and 1,5% of their total expenditure on paying the carbon tax on this product.

This heterogeneity across households leads us to recommend taxes and compensation mechanisms charged on adequate products to reduce households’ carbon footprints while avoiding the regressivity of climate policies and reducing urban-rural inequalities.

You can find the full text here:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1757780224003342

GEAR IN THE 10th CONFERENCE ON INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS

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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.

CONGRATS PILAR!

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Pilar Osorio, GEAR member, has completed her PhD in Economics.

The thesis entitled “Sustainability of household consumption and challenges for decarbonization in Spain and Castilla-La Mancha through input-output analysis”, was supervised by María Ángeles Cadarso and María Ángeles Tobarra, and is composed of three peer-reviewed papers:

  • Córcoles, C., López, L. A., Osorio, P. y Zafrilla, J. (2024). The carbon footprint of the empty Castilla-La Mancha. Energy Policy, 184, 113892. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2023.113892
  • Osorio, P., Cadarso,M.A., Tobarra,M.A, García-Alaminos, Á (2023). Carbon footprint of tourism in Spain: Covid-19 impact and a look forward to recovery. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2023.03.003

The thesis tribunal was formed by Professors Mònica Serrano, from the University of Barcelona, Ángeles Cámara, from the Rey Juan Carlos University, and Mateo Ortiz, from the University of Castilla-La Mancha.

GEAR in Chile: 30th International Input-Output Conference

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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

PROGRAM OF THE CONFERENCE: here