SPES Explorer European Pressing Issues Dashboard

The SPES Explorer – European Pressing Issues Dashboard is a web-based interactive application that visualises how citizens across European countries have perceived their most pressing national problems over time. It combines country-level maps with time-series charts and offers optional breakdowns by age group and gender. Users can explore, compare, and...

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

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...

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Reducing Climate Risks through Just Transition Policies

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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Generating a just and green transition: aligning innovation and competitiveness policies in Europe with sustainability priorities

Generating a just and green transition: aligning innovation and competitiveness policies in Europe with sustainability priorities

The SPES project suggests that a deeper shift is needed towards a just and green transition — one that redefines the very meaning of productivity, innovation, and competitiveness and how they must support sustainability and equity objectives. SPES does not treat these as separate or even competing dimensions, but as...

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Exploring determinants and dynamics of energy poverty

Energy poverty - i.e. a situation in which households are unable to access essential energy services and products - is a key concept of the just and fair transition towards climate neutrality. Over the past decade the European Union has increased its efforts in reducing energy poverty,  however they remains...

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