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
Carr, D., Falchetta, G. , & Wing, I.S. (2024). Population Aging and Heat Exposure in the 21 st Century: Which U.S. Regions Are at Greatest Risk and Why? The Gerontologist 64 (3) gnad050. 10.1093/geront/gnad050.
Mazzone, A., De Cian, E., Falchetta, G. , Jani, A., Mistry, M., & Khosla, R. (2023). Understanding systemic cooling poverty. Nature Sustainability 6 1533-1541. 10.1038/s41893-023-01221-6.
Falchetta, G. , Awais, M. , Byers, E. , Giordano, V., Ireland, G., Semeria, F., Tuninetti, M., Vinca, A. , & Hafner, M. (2023). Replication data for the LEAP-RE RE4AFAGRI Platform: v0.2. 10.5281/zenodo.7534845.
Falchetta, G. , Semeria, F., Tuninetti, ., Giordano, V., Pachauri, S. , & Byers, E. (2023). Solar irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa: economic feasibility and development potential. Environmental Research Letters 18 (9) e094044. 10.1088/1748-9326/acefe5.
Dagnachew, A.G., Choi, S.-M., & Falchetta, G. (2023). Energy planning in Sub-Saharan African countries needs to explicitly consider productive uses of electricity. Scientific Reports 13 (1) e13007. 10.1038/s41598-023-40021-y.