Giacomo Falchetta
Research Scholar
Integrated Assessment and Climate Change Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
Biography
Giacomo Falchetta is a research scholar in the Integrated Assessment and Climate Change Research Group of the IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program, where he works on the Long-term Europe Africa Partnership on Renewable Energy (LEAP-RE), a joint initiative of the European Union and African Union. He joined IIASA in October 2021, after being affiliated with the institute as a guest research scholar between 2018 and 2019.Falchetta is also affiliated with the Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) and before joining IIASA, he worked as a research fellow in the Future Energy Program (FEP) at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), a sustainability science research center based in Milan, Italy. An environmental economist by training, he carries out applied research on the nexus between energy, water, climate change, and economic development with a particular focus on the use of geographic information system (GIS) data and methodologies.
He holds a PhD from the Department of International Economics of the Catholic University of Milan, an MSc in Environmental and Climate Change Economics from the London School of Economics, and a BSc in Economics and Social Sciences from the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen. He has authored several publications in international journals.
Last update: 26 JUN 2023
Publications
Falchetta, G. , Vinca, A. , Troost, A., Tuninetti, M., Ireland, G., Byers, E. , Hafner, M., & Zulu, A. (2024). The role of agriculture for achieving renewable energy-centered sustainable development objectives in rural Africa. Environmental Development e101098. 10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101098. (In Press)
Pachauri, S. , Coldrey, O., Falchetta, G. , & Pelz, S. (2024). Innovation in distributed energy services for sustainable development: case studies from sub-Saharan Africa. Environmental Research Letters 19 (11) e114090. 10.1088/1748-9326/ad8460.
Falchetta, G. , De Cian, E., Pavanello, F., & Wing, I.S. (2024). Inequalities in global residential cooling energy use to 2050. Nature Communications 15 (1) e7874. 10.1038/s41467-024-52028-8.
Wamalwa, F., Maqelepo, L., Williams, N., & Falchetta, G. (2024). Solar irrigation potential in Sub-Saharan Africa: a crop-specific techno-economic analysis. Environmental Research: Food Systems 1 (2) e025001. 10.1088/2976-601X/ad5e82.
Falchetta, G. , De Cian, E., Sue Wing, I., & Carr, D. (2024). Global projections of heat exposure of older adults. Nature Communications 15 (1) e3678. 10.1038/s41467-024-47197-5.