European Institute
on Economics and the Environment

The Institute

EIEE’s mission is to improve environmental, energy, and natural resource decisions through impartial economic research and policy engagement. The Institute is committed to being a central focal point for research insights and policy solutions within Europe, and connecting that work internationally.

Our research

Topics

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Climate
Transition

Achieving climate neutrality requires a rapid and profound transformation of our societies. Strong analytical capacity can be harnessed to design transition pathways which are feasible and equitable.

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Climate Impacts
& Adaptations

Understanding how agents, as well as physical and biophysical systems, react to climate change.

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Climate Finance
& Macroeconomics

The macroeconomic repercussion of environmental challenges are key for designing a sustainable transition.

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Climate
Justice

Solving climate change will not happen without an adequate distribution of the efforts and an inclusive approach.

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Sustainable Innovation
& Digitalization

Reaching climate-neutral economies and societies in a just and equitable way requires innovation of both technological and social systems.

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Behavioural
Data Science

Solving ecological problems understanding how people and organizations behave.

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Human Health
& Migration

Environmental change affects migration, and in turn, migration provides ways to escape ecological risks.

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Resilient
Cities

Urban areas are at the forefront of climate mitigation adaptation policies, being a place where a range of actors interact in different economic activities

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Publications

Cattaneo C., Foreman T.

Climate Change, International Migration, and Interstate Conflicts

Ecological Economics , Volume 211 - 2023

Sisco, M. R., Constantino, S. M., Gao, Y., Tavoni, M., Cooperman, A. D., Bosetti, V., & Weber, E. U.

Examining evidence for the Finite Pool of Worry and Finite Pool of Attention hypotheses

Global Environmental Change , Volume 78, January 2023, 102622 - 2023

Aydogan, Berger, Bosetti, and Liu

Three Layers of Uncertainty

Journal of the European Economic Association , - 2023

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ONGOING

Next generation of AdVanced InteGrated Assessment modelling to support climaTE policy making

ONGOING

Climate pOlicy assessment and Mitigation Modeling to Integrate national and global TransiTion pathways for Environmental-friendly Development

ONGOING

Climate and cultural based design and market valuable technology solutions for Plus Energy Houses