
Manuel TomásBC3-Basque Centre for Climate Change | BCCC
Manuel Tomás
Master’s Degree in Sustainable Growth and Development
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Introduction
Manuel Tomás is a research assistant at the Basque Centre for Climate Change and is developing his Doctoral Thesis in Economics: Tools of Economic Analysis at the University of the Basque Country. The main aim of my research is to develop a new detailed consumption model based on an extensive heterogeneity of households for all EU countries in the context of the LOCOMOTION H2020 project (https://www.locomotion-h2020.eu/).
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Identifying the main drivers of the household carbon footprint (HCF) is a priority to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and move towards a more sustainable economy. Among the multiple factors that explain the HCF, some previous research has confirmed the relevance of gender. In this paper, we calculate the HCF of individual Spanish households using a...
Despite the consensus that green taxation is an effective way to accelerate the decarbonization of economies, few countries are implementing ambitious tax reforms. This is the case of diesel for transport in Spain. The arguments against boosting the diesel tax stressed its potential adverse effects on the economy and society, accusing it of being a...
By using an environmentally extended multi-regional input-output model, this paper analyses the Spanish households’ carbon footprint for the 2008–2017 period considering the municipality size as well as the urban or rural residential zone where families live. Results show that, on a per capita basis, inhabitants of medium-large municipalities emit...