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

Shayegh, S., Andreu-Perez, J., Akoth, C., Bosch-Capblanch, X., Dasgupta, S., Falchetta, G. , Gregson, S., Hammad, A., Herringer, M., Kapkea, F., Labella, A., Lisciotto, L., Martínez, L., Macharia, P.M., Morales-Ruiz, P., Murage, N., Offeddu, V., South, A., Torbica, A., Trentini, F., & Melegaro, A. (2023). Prioritizing COVID-19 vaccine allocation in resource poor settings: Towards an Artificial Intelligence-enabled and Geospatial-assisted decision support framework. PLoS ONE 18 (8) e0275037. 10.1371/journal.pone.0275037.

Falchetta, G. & Hammad, T.A. (2023). # Replication code and data for: Global urban green space is shrinking. 10.5281/zenodo.8001676.

Mahama, P.N-j., Kabo-bah, A.T., Falchetta, G. , Blanford, J.I., Yamba, E.I., Antwi-Agyei, P., Asiedu-Bekoe, F., Awuah, E., & Yieri, J. (2023). Leaving no disease behind: The roadmap to securing universal health security and what this means for the surveillance of infectious diseases in Ghana as a precedent for sub-Saharan Africa. PLoS ONE 18 (4) e0284931. 10.1371/journal.pone.0284931.

Falchetta, G. , Pavanello, F., De Cian, E., & Sue Wing, I. (2023). Global gridded scenarios of residential cooling energy demand to 2050. 10.5281/zenodo.7845125.

Falchetta, G. , Awais, M. , Giordano, V., Ireland, G., Semeria, F., Tuninetti, M., Vinca, A. , & Zulu, A. (2023). Soft-linking climate-land-water-energy assessment and
planning models for sustainable development in rural Africa:
preliminary results from the LEAP-RE RE4AFAGRI project. In: EGU General Assembly 2023, 23-28 April 2023, Vienna.