IEW

RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE) leverages two leading international centers for economic and environmental research:Resources for the Future (RFF) and Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC).
EIEE’s mission is to improve environmental, energy, and natural resource decisions through impartial economic research and policy engagement. The Institute is committed to being a central focal point for research insights and policy solutions within Europe, and connecting that work internationally.
EIEE’s economic and environmental research aims to facilitate the transition to a sustainable, inclusive society. The focus is on issues surrounding but not limited to climate change, including a wide range of environmental, energy, natural resource and societal issues. Topics include how to evaluate strategies and policies to stabilize climate change, eliminate energy poverty, improve air and water quality, study human migration and green innovation.
While an economic and policy lens on these issues is central to EIEE’s mission, specific activities benefit from a broad, multidisciplinary approach to understanding of issues and identification and analysis of solution options.
EIEE has strong competencies on quantitative methods, but also incorporate insights from qualitative and behavioural sciences. Computational models –integrated assessment models (IAMs), agent base models (ABM), energy models- are used to study the economics of climate mitigation and adaptation, and the transition to a low carbon world. Empirical methods shed light on clean innovation and technical change, and human migration. Experimental methods based on randomization allow testing in the field economic and behavioural interventions to promote pro-environmental behavior.