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Bridging the Feasibility Gap in Energy Transitions: Policy Insights from MultiCountry Stakeholder Consultations

SPES

02/12/2025

Bridging the Feasibility Gap in Energy Transitions: Policy Insights from MultiCountry Stakeholder Consultations

Scenarios are a fundamental tool in planning sustainability and energy transitions. They help policymakers explore future possibilities and define roadmaps for reducing emissions and achieving long-term goals. However, most current energy transitions scenarios are developed through integrated assessment models that focus primarily on technical, economic, and environmental variables. While these...

Reducing Climate Risks through Just Transition Policies

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SPES

20/10/2025

Reducing Climate Risks through Just Transition Policies

The transition towards climate neutrality represents a profound societal transformation that affects different segments of society in unequal ways and imply the adoption of just transition policies. While the urgency of achieving net zero emissions is clear, the pathway to decarbonisation produces varied impacts across regions, communities, and social groups....

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SPES

18/03/2025

SEN-HARP model and the Green Deal: three possible policy scenarios

While decent living is necessary - and crucial for the political acceptability of ecological transition strategies, the energy and material cost of needs satisfaction cannot be overlooked in the 21st century. In this context, favouring the harmony between human and natural systems may call for yet untried post-growth strategies. Likewise,...

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SPES

18/03/2025

A Society-Economy-Nature (SEN-HARP) model to analyse trade-offs of net-zero carbon transition

Transition to net-zero carbon is not merely technical but a complex socio-political endeavour with significant trade-offs involving inequality, well-being, sustainability, and political acceptability. While significant progress has been made in understanding the biophysical dimensions of climate change, the socio-political aspects remain largely underexplored by assessment models. The Working Paper “Transitioning...

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SPES

26/02/2024

Which indicators and composite indices are relevant to measure transition performances?

The search for new sustainable development indicators stems from the need to develop novel global measurement systems alternate to GDP, which is no longer able to accurately capture the state of social, economic and environmental development of specific geographical areas. SPES partners from TARKI Institute and University of Florence made...

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SPES

26/02/2024

Mapping, harmonising and integrating innovative data sources for research purposes

As we navigate the path toward a more sustainable future, the need to study and measure the performance of sustainability transitions becomes crucial. In the past decades, the advent of innovative data sources has significantly expanded our ability to gauge the many dimensions of sustainability addressed by the SPES framework....

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SPES

22/01/2024

Mapping European initiatives on sustainable development & sustainable transition

The current climate crisis has led European institutions to increasingly direct their policies towards sustainable development and ecological transition. To be effective, such sustainability transition initiatives should be socially equitable. SPES partners from the University of Florence are working in two separate mapping to highlight the relevance of sustainable human...

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SPES

14/11/2023

A novel integrated framework for Sustainable Human Development in Europe

Presentation and discussion of the novel framework for Sustainable Human Development (SHD) in Europe to place economic growth and human flourishing within social and environmental boundaries. The framework combines the global policy framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development with the theoretical insights of the Human Development paradigm and...

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SPES

08/11/2023

Policy frameworks for sustainability transition: Mapping approaches in the European Union and the Global South

How do the EU policies integrate and articulate the notion of sustainability transition? There are some significant differences in the development and transition challenges and policy perspectives of low- and middle-income regions in the Global South when compared with the internal sustainability transition agenda of the EU. Furthermore, in the...

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SPES

30/10/2023

Measuring transitions of European regions: towards Sustainable Human Development?

Rising inequalities and environmental degradation are major threats to the long-term prosperity of modern economic systems. Significant attention has thus been placed on sustainable transition in European policymaking, as seen by the Next Generation EU and European Green Deal and the rise in tools for monitoring transitions. Many indicators have...