The impact of renewable energy diffusion on European consumption-based emissionsFootnote

† This article is a revised version of the paper that won the Wassily Leontief Memorial Prize 2015, for the best paper by authors younger than 40 submitted to the 23rd International Input–Output Conference, in Mexico City.

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