Jaume Freire

📢 New article in @SciReports: “World Economies’ Progress in Decoupling from CO2 Emissions,” co-authored with @EmilioPadillaR1 and Josep Ll. Raymond

🌍❌ Decoupling between economic growth and CO2 emissions has not yet been achieved on a global scale

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"Fossil fuels now supply about 83% of the world’s commercial energy, compared to 86% in the year 2000"
latimes.com/business/story…

Professor Dale Jorgenson was my mentor at Harvard, a referral figure in many economic fields and a carbon taxes advocate. Thank you for your kindness and great advice. RIP
wsj.com/articles/harva…

📜📢 New research article in open access in Economic Analysis and Policy journal: "Environmental taxation in the European Union: Are there common trends?" with Francisco J. Delgado and Maria J. Presno from @uniovi_info sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🌍Check out our new research with Mun Ho (Harvard and RFF) in Ecological Economics. Can (energy & carbon) rebound effects be counteracted?

Five different policy strategies are simulated in an economy–energy–environment CGE simulation model for Catalonia: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…