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
Generative AI for climate governance and acceptability-constrained policy design
Manivannan A., Spaiser V., Cann T. J. B., Evans J., Everall J. P., Falkenberg M., Garcia D., Guo W., Herzog R., Otto I. M., Oswald Y., Pagan N., Pellert M., Pilgrim C., Rodriguez-Pardo C., Sen I., Vezhnevets A. S.
2026, npj climate action, doi: 10.1038/s44168-026-00362-6
The air quality effects of Uber
Sarmiento L., Kim Y. J.
2026, Journal of Urban Economics, doi: 10.1016/j.jue.2026.103846
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…


