Jon Sampedro

Biographic Data

ID4082170
NAMEJon Sampedro
GIVEN NAMESJon
FAMILY NAMESampedro
SIGNATURESAMPEDRO J
AFFILIATIONSIkerbasque
ORCID0000-0002-2277-1530
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS15
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • From least-cost to SDG-optimal sectoral allocation of Paris Agreement-compatible mitigation efforts

    Open AccessDirk-Jan Van De Ven, Clàudia Rodés-Bachs et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2026

  • The challenge with climate-energy-economy models in constructing fair and equitable climate futures

    Open AccessΑλέξανδρος Νίκας, Jon Sampedro et al.ARTICLEFutures2026

    Climate change and policy are unevenly experienced across nations, social groups, households, sectors, and generations. Understanding how benefits and burdens of climate action can be equitably shared is therefore critical. While the cornerstone concept of ‘common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities’ is broadly accepted, the absence of consensus on equitable effort-sharing principles presents a challenge that permeates…

  • Cost-optimal vs. policy-driven scenarios for a decarbonised European energy system

    Open AccessNatasha Frilingou, Dirk-Jan Van De Ven et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2026

    The European Union’s (EU) climate strategy, anchored in the European Green Deal, the Fit-for-55 package, and the updated National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs), requires a rapid transformation of the energy system to meet the legally binding target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and a 55% reduction by 2030 relative to 1990 levels. Yet, how national plans align with EU-wide ambition, alongside the implications for investment, infr…

  • Long-term decarbonization impacts on residential energy security across income groups and US states

    Open AccessYing Zhang, Yang Ou et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    The impact of a transition to a net-zero economy on the residential energy sector across diverse income groups in the US remains uncertain. Here, we employ an integrated human-Earth system model, incorporating an expanded set of ten income groups in the residential energy sector, to examine the distributional impacts of long-term decarbonization scenarios on residential energy security at the state level through 2050. We use multiple metrics of e…

  • Enhancing energy and food access through reduction of income inequality does not jeopardize the achievement of existing climate pledges

    Open AccessJon Sampedro, Dirk-Jan Van De Ven et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Reducing within-region income inequality is a global priority that must be urgently addressed to promote human development and enhance global access to energy and food. This could lead to higher energy-related emissions by lower-income consumers, potentially creating some conflicts with climate change mitigation objectives. Using an enhanced version of the Global Change Analysis Model, we simulate reductions of within-region income inequality tha…

  • Residential energy demand, emissions, and expenditures at regional and income-decile level for alternative futures

    Open AccessJon Sampedro, Stephanie Waldhoff et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Income and its distribution profile are important determinants of residential energy demand and carry direct implications for human well-being and climate. We explore the sensitivity of residential energy systems to income growth and distribution across shared socioeconomic pathway-representative concentration pathways scenarios using a global, integrated, multisector dynamics model, Global Change Analysis Model, which tracks national/regional ho…

  • Assessing synergies and trade-offs of diverging Paris-compliant mitigation strategies with long-term SDG objectives

    Open AccessJorge Moreno, Dirk-Jan Van De Ven et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2022Cited by: 8References: 2

    The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement are the two transformative agendas, which set the benchmarks for nations to address urgent social, economic and environmental challenges. Aside from setting long-term goals, the pathways followed by nations will involve a series of synergies and trade-offs both between and within these agendas. Since it will not be possible to optimise across the 17 SDGs while simultaneously transit…

  • Implications of different income distributions for future residential energy demand in the U.S

    Open AccessJon Sampedro, Gokul Iyer et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Future income distribution will affect energy demand and its interactions with various societal priorities. Most future model simulations assume a single average consumer and thus miss this important demand determinant. We quantify long-term implications of alternative future income distributions for state-level residential energy demand, investment, greenhouse gas, and pollutant emission patterns in the United States (U.S.) by incorporating inco…

  • Integrate health into decision-making to foster climate action

    Open AccessToon Vandyck, Sebastian Rauner et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic reveals that societies place a high value on healthy lives. Leveraging this momentum to establish a more central role for human health in the policy process will provide further impetus to a sustainable transformation of energy and food systems

  • Risk blindness in local perspectives about the Alberta oil sands hinders Canada's decarbonization

    Open AccessLuis D Virla, Dirk-Jan Van De Ven et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Innovation and…2021Cited by: 6References: 35

    Local perspectives can conflict with national and international climate targets. This study explores three stakeholder (community, provincial, and federal) perspectives on the Alberta oil sands as risks for a sustainability transition in Canada. In an ex-post analysis, we compared outputs from stakeholder consultations and energy-economy models. Our research shows that different local stakeholders groups disregarded some policy risks for the Albe…

  • Integrated policy assessment and optimisation over multiple sustainable development goals in Eastern Africa

    Open AccessDirk-Jan Van De Ven, Jon Sampedro et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    Heavy reliance on traditional biomass for household energy in eastern Africa has significant negative health and environmental impacts. The African context for energy access is rather different from historical experiences elsewhere as challenges in achieving energy access have coincided with major climate ambitions. Policies focusing on household energy needs in eastern Africa contribute to at least three sustainable development goals (SDGs): cli…

  • Identifying optimal technological portfolios for European power generation towards climate change mitigation

    Open AccessAikaterini Forouli, Haris Doukas et al.ARTICLEUtilities Policy2019Cited by: 1References: 2