Author: Samuel Carrara

Project output and newsletter

Project output and newsletter

As I anticipated in my previous post, yesterday I made the last formal steps of the project. In particular, I: completed the review of Deliverables 2.1 and 3.1 and submitted them to the European Commission created the Output section of the website, reporting the project results circulated the newsletter among FEEM’s network In the next months (or years…) I will progressively develop scientific papers starting from the deliverables, focusing on the most interesting and promising topics: step by step, the…

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Deliverable 3.1 completed – End of the project!

Deliverable 3.1 completed – End of the project!

So here we are! Two years have passed since I left for the US and now I am “celebrating” the completion of the project, which formally ends today. Well, time flies! As anticipated in the last post, in these days I quickly revised the SDG paper (which will still need some work in the future) and assembled Deliverable 3.1, which – similarly to D2.1 – is essentially the union of the abovementioned paper with the article concerning climate participation, simply…

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Climate participation – Paper completed

Climate participation – Paper completed

So the last paper of the MERCURY project has finally been completed! As I anticipated in my previous Research post, I had to work a bit during the Christmas holidays, but in the end the desired objective has been achieved! In these days I have been working a bit on the SDGs paper: of course I do not have the opportunity to do anything special, but of course it is good to go through it and possibly revise some details,…

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Renewable Energy: A key climate solution – IRENA

Renewable Energy: A key climate solution – IRENA

Accelerating energy transformation is key for a climate-safe future. The future of tomorrow depends on the energy decisions we are making today. Source: Renewable Energy: A key climate solution – IRENA OK, if I share a post reporting that “renewable energy is a key climate solution”, I am unlikely to provide you with exceptional insights, I guess. But the infographics that has been produced by the International Renewable Energy Agency in this webpage is really fantastic and deserves to be seen!…

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Climate participation – Scenarios completed

Climate participation – Scenarios completed

In the past days I completed the scenarios of the climate participation exercise according to the scheme that I described at the beginning of the month. I did not have time to develop a huge exercise, but I think that some interesting conclusions may be drawn from the runs. In the next couple of weeks of course I will enjoy the Christmas Holidays, but I will also have to find time to work a bit. In fact, I will have…

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COP24 – UNFCCC

COP24 – UNFCCC

In the last weeks, Katowice, Poland hosted the 24th Conference of Parties (COP24), the yearly session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). As most of you know, COPs are essentially the most important yearly event concerning climate change, where fundamental decisions are (or, sometimes, are not…) made by world countries towards global mitigation action. Hence, a post on this topic is mandatory (here the link to the post dedicated to last year’s COP23 in Bonn). The…

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Final seminar at FEEM

Final seminar at FEEM

Last Friday I gave the final seminar of my Marie Curie project here at FEEM. The presentation covered Work Package 2, which essentially is the core of the scenario assessment exercise characterizing the second year of the MERCURY project. The title of the presentation was “Future prospects of renewables, CCS, and nuclear in the EU and beyond: results from the MERCURY project”. The presentation essentially replicated the structure of Deliverable 2.1: an introduction to the project and to WP2, followed…

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AIEE – Milan

AIEE – Milan

In the past days I participated in the third annual Energy Symposium organized by AIEE, the Italian branch of IAEE, the International Association for Energy Economics. Indeed this conference did not require a long journey, as it was organized at the Bocconi University, here in Milan. By the way, this was the last conference of my MERCURY project, which will end on next January 15, 2019. Honestly, in terms of research, I did not find any outstanding presentations in the…

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Carbon capture, utilisation and storage finally catches the spotlight – IEA

Carbon capture, utilisation and storage finally catches the spotlight – IEA

Large CCUS deployment will be needed for successful clean-energy transitions Source: Carbon capture, utilisation and storage finally catches the spotlight – IEA More than one month has passed since I completed the research task concerning CCS, however I would like to share this post appeared yesterday on the International Energy Agency website. Preliminary note: the IEA normally prefers talking about CCUS, i.e. highlighting the term “utilization” (that you find in the post title), but obviously we are talking about the same…

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Climate participation – Concept and scenarios

Climate participation – Concept and scenarios

As you read in the last post, in the past days I finally completed Work Package 2 and I could start the main activity of Work Package 3. I talk about “main activity” because, as you might remember, in 2017 I worked a bit on a side activity focused on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), whose paper I presented at the EAERE conference in Athens. In this last research task of my MERCURY project I would like to focus on…

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