Thinking

The World Bank has released its annual State and Trends of Carbon Pricing report - some insights and comments.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Nuclear energy is frightening, but we might just need it for a sustainable future.

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.

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.