The use of bicycle for commuting can lead to healthier urban environments. In this radio interview Nuria Gómez explains how public bicycle services can contribute to this aim.
https://play.cadenaser.com/audio/020RD010000000007677/?ssm=whatsapp
If you want to know more about this topic, you can also read her recent article in The Conversation:
Bicycle, Health and Wellbeing!
¡Bicicleta, salud y bienestar!
GEAR Members Jorge Zafrilla, Ángela García-Alaminos, and Fabio Monsalve have recently published a new book chapter. You can find “The Sustainability Challenge of Dairy Livestock Systems” inside the book Sustainable and Environmentally Friendly Dairy Farms, edited by Santiago García-Yuste, it is part of the SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology book series.
The book, Sustainable and Environmentally Friendly Dairy Farms, presents an innovative environmental proposal. While chiefly focusing on dairy farms, the environmental solution it describes applies to the entire livestock sector. This book is divided into five chapters elaborated by eight authors. The first chapter -written by the GEAR members listed above – describes the current situation of the global dairy livestock industry under the influence and challenge of the commitments of the so-called Paris Agreement and addresses the carbon footprint of dairy farms. Firstly, the key points of the Agreement affecting the livestock and dairy systems are discussed within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals. Next, a detailed analysis of the evolution of the activity and the greenhouse gas emissions of the industry is presented. Finally, a summary of current environmental solutions and bioeconomy alternatives will contribute to enriching the discussion.
This contribution is part of the collaboration of the GEAR group in a UCLM’s multidisciplinary research group. Together with chemists and engineers, who are working on techniques for the capture and use of CO2.
LINK to the ebook: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-46060-0
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.
We hope you enjoy it!
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.
Please, CLICK HERE to read the full paper (only available in Spanish). We hope you like it.
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.
We hope you enjoy it!
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
We hope you enjoy this paper!
ACCESS TO FULL PAPER: LINK
The 15th Conference of the Spanish Association for Energy Economics (AEEE) was held at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, at the lovely city of Toledo, from 29th to 31st January 2020.
Since our University would be hosting the event, some GEAR members led the organization of the 2020 edition of the conference in close collaboration with Leticia Blázquez, from the UCLM’s Talavera and Toledo Campuses. All together worked hard to successfully ensure a wonderful conference for all the attendees and speakers.
GEAR members participated not only as organizers but also as speakers in the academic sessions of the conference. The research works presented by GEAR members at the conference were:
Reaffirming our commitment to the environment and sustainability, the GEAR group promoted a sustainable conference from the organization and did our best to get the provisions needed during the conference from eco-friendly suppliers. Moreover, we assessed the carbon footprint of the event and found that it reached 10.2 tonnes of CO2, approximately. The estimate covered all the direct and indirect carbon emissions generated in the organization and by all attendees. These findings were presented at the closing ceremony, where it was announced that the conference’s carbon footprint would be totally compensated by the Vice-rectorate for Research of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM).
Finally, we also want to highlight the remarkable achievements reached by two GEAR young members, Ángela García-Alaminos and Santacruz Banacloche, who received two of the Energy Economics Young Researchers Awards of the conference. Santacruz obtained a travel grant for his outstanding work and Ángela was awarded the 1st Prize for Young Researchers for the article with the highest quality and relevance in the field of Energy Economics.
Congratulations to Ángela and Santacruz for their prizes and all GEAR members and Leticia Blázquez for making possible such a great conference!
PROGRAM OF THE CONFERENCE: http://www.aeee.es/xv_congreso_aeee/en/program/
The GEAR member Ángela García Alaminos and Dr. Santiago J. Rubio from the University of Valencia have received the «Prize for Energy Economics Young Researchers» for their work Emission Taxes, Feed-in Subsidies and the Investment in a lean Technology by a Polluting Monopoly. This distinction has been awarded by Red Eléctrica de España, and the Spanish Association for Energy Economics (AEEE) within the15th Conference of the Spanish Association for Energy Economics held in Toledo on the 29th-31st of January 2020.
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.