The SEME Division analyses the transition to sustainability, helping identify and evaluate low carbon, sustainable strategies. The approach used is multidisciplinary, with strong use of quantitative methods based on data science, integrated modeling and experimental and behavioral economics.
Objectives
- Evaluate the low carbon transformation of the energy, land and climate sectors;
- Evaluate behavioural and traditional policy interventions for promoting pro-environmental behavior;
- Assess green innovation and its determinants;
- Study the interplay between various sustainable development goals;
- Identify robust policy strategies to climate risks and uncertainties;
- Identify technological and societal transition pathways;
- Study climate induced migration.
SEME Projects
This contract will aim at carrying out the European Climate Risk Assessment…
Il progetto è realizzato nell’ambito del quadro istituzionale della Direttiva europea sulla…
SEME Publications
Graph-Based modeling and decomposition of hierarchical optimization problems
Cole D., Pecci F., Guerra O.J., Gangammanavar H., Jenkins J., Zavala V. M.
2026, Mathematical Programming Computation, doi: 10.1007/s12532-026-00315-4
Promising climate progress from net-zero ambitions to the Paris Agreement goal
Tagomori I. S., Diuana F. A., Baptista L. B., Bertram C., Dafnomilis I., Drouet L., Fosse F., Fragkiadakis D., Fricko O., Hooijschuur E., Iyer G., Kikstra J. S., Krey V., Luderer G., Ou Y., Aleluia Da Silva Reis L., Richters O., Rochedo P. R. R., Vrontisi Z., Weitzel M., Zwerling M., van Ruijven B., Schaeffer R., van Vuuren D.
2026, Nature Climate Change, doi: 10.1038/s41558-026-02615-y
SEME Models
FASST(R) is a source receptor model, an R version of the reduced-form…
WITCH (World Induced Technical Change Hybrid) is an integrated assessment model designed…


