Writing
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2025 Jun
State and Trends of Carbon Pricing report - 2025 release
The World Bank has released its annual State and Trends of Carbon Pricing report - some insights and comments.
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2024 Nov
Damage functions - brief review (Nov 2024)
Prompted by the publication of new NGFS scenarios with new damage functions I discuss the types and issues of damages functions used in modelling the economics of climate change.
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2023 July
Automation outcomes in different macro models - EU Commission report
It is frequently acknowledged that all models are wrong, which is probably even more true when models are dealing with high levels of uncertainty, just as in economics. But one has to note that economic models differ in >>how<< they are wrong.
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2021 Oct
Modelling the regional impacts of macro scenarios - Just transition in the Czech Republic
In response to the increasing policy need to assess the distributional effects of transition to low-carbon economy, Cambridge Econometrics has developed a novel method to model local impacts, by disaggregating E3ME simulation results into regional (NUTS-2) estimates.
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2021 Febr
How the unequal economic impacts of climate change could make collective action harder
How bad will the economic impacts of climate change be on average? Expert estimates on the global economic impacts of unmitigated warming (though all negative) vary quite a bit in their magnitude. There is little attention given to the multiple ways one could interpret the question. Despite the fact that the final answer would heavily depend on it.
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2020 May
Snapshot of LNG in Europe
Back in the early days of 2020 I made an infographic which presented some details of LNG (liquified natural gas) adaptation in Europe. A lot has changed since then. Now LNG could become an even more important part of our endeavor for energy security and clean energy. Or is it?
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2020 Apr
Coronavirus - initial results from economic modelling
There are various uncertainties about the COVID-19 virus that are yet to be pinned down by healthcare professionals and experts in infectious disease. The best we can do is to use numbers estimated by these experts and to base our assumptions on historical experience.
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2019 May
The future is not nuclear, but not without nuclear
Nuclear energy is frightening, but we might just need it for a sustainable future.
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2018 November
EU-28 Energy structures cheat sheet
To what degree local energy production can fulfill local demand in the EU? Which countries are the “greenest” in energy terms and what does Latvia do for a nearly 40% renewable energy ratio? Debunking “myths” and the creation of a printable cheat sheet.
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2018 November
Deadliness of terror attacks in Europe
A short visual analysis, based on the Global Terrorism Database, investigating how terrorism and the causalities that it has caused, changed over the years in Europe.