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Systems theory defines leverage points as places to intervene in order to change a system. Points with high impact on system behavior are notoriously hard to act upon, and indeed most policy intervention is based at the lowest level (#12 in Donella Meadows ...
EPFL2023COVID-19: data-driven dynamic asset allocation in times of pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance and value of multi-period asset allocation strategies responding to rapid changes in market behavior. In this article, we formulate and solve a multi-stage stochastic optimization problem, choosing the ...
AMER INST MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES-AIMS2021Developing new tools to study and program cell fate at the single-cell level
Single-cell transcriptomics (scRNA-seq) started a technological revolution in biology by enabling through the plethora of methods to assess a molecular state of the cell on systems level without the strict necessity of the prior knowledge of the cell state ...
EPFL2021Navigating various flexibility mechanisms under European burden-sharing
In July 2016, the European Commission presented its proposal for a regulation to reduce greenhouse gases emissions in sectors not covered by the emissions trading system with regard to post-2020 binding targets. The proposal extends the burden-sharing fram ...
SPRINGER2020Navigating various flexibility mechanisms under European burden-sharing
Emissions in sectors not covered by the emissions trading system with regard to post-2020 binding targets. The proposal extends the burden-sharing framework designed in 2008. This new burden-sharing, called by the European Commission as the Effort Sharing ...
2020Urgency
Dieter Dietz, Julien Lafontaine Carboni, Lucia-Nieves Garcia de Jalon Oyarzun, Teresa Sze Wing Cheung
In a time when the depletion of reason seems to have become a normality—and a fundamental disruption of the ecosystem forecasts its imminence through abnormal climate events—the question that comes to mind, first and foremost, is about the foundations of s ...
Birkhäuser2020Do energy performance certificates allow reliable predictions of actual energy consumption and savings? Learning from the Swiss national database
Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Stefano Cozza, Arno Schlueter
The thermal performance gap in buildings is defined as the difference between the theoretical and the actual energy consumption for heating, and is known to undermine energy retrofit strategies and policies. This study examines the performance gap in retro ...
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2020Towards sustainable housing in Switzerland: housing size as a link between tenants' residential decisions and environmental impact
Housing size is a key variable in determining the environmental footprint of residential buildings. Besides the environmental aspect, housing size is the result of residential decisions made by households, which are influenced by the interplay of factors o ...
2020Find your way around the various flexibility mechanisms under the European burden-sharing
In July 2016, the European Commission presented its proposal for a regulation to reduce greenhouse gases emissions in sectors not covered by the emissions trading system with regard to post-2020 binding targets. The proposal extends the burden-sharing fram ...
2019Navigating various flexibility mechanisms under European burden-sharing
In July 2016, the European Commission presented its proposal for a regulation to reduce greenhouse gases emissions in sectors not covered by the emissions trading system with regard to post-2020 binding targets. The proposal extends the burden-sharing fram ...
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