Jan Minx

 Background

• Senior Research Fellow at Stockholm Environment Institute working at the Institute for the Economics of Climate Change at Technische Universität Berlin;
• PhD in Environmental Economics and Management at the University of York - "Integrated Data Frameworks in Monetary, Physical and Time Units for Sustainable Consumption Research";
• MSc in Environmental Economics at the University of York (Honours);
• BSc in Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Cologne;

Research

My research interests lie in the areas of sustainable consumption and production, life cycle assessment as well as climate change mitigation and adaptation. I am mostly interested in the development of quantitative models for decision support. On the one hand I have devoted much of my attention to the analysis of greenhouse gas emissions associated with traded goods and services using large models with global coverage. On the other hand I have thought a lot about consumer emissions on very small spatial scales. This involves even larger data sets, because this requires the linking of very detailed local data sources into such global models. Most of this analysis we use to support local governments and cities in their climate mitigation efforts. In my remaining time I am currently trying to establish links between integrated climate change assessment and life cycle assessment models.

Publications

Minx, J.C. et al, 2009, Multiregional Input-Output Analysis and Carbon Footprinting: An Overview of UK Applications, Economic Systems Research, under revision.

Wiedmann, T., Wood, R., Minx, J.C., Lenzen, M., Guan, D. and Harris, R., 2009, A Carbon Footprint Time Series of the UK - Results from a Multi-Regional Input-Output Model, Economic Systems Research, under revision.

Baiocchi, G., Minx, J.C. and Hubacek, K., 2009, The Impact of Social Factors and Consumer Behaviour on CO2 Emissions: A Panel Regression Approach Based on Input-Output and Consumer Segmentation Data, Journal of Industrial Ecology, under revision.

Minx, J.C., Baiocchi, G., Hubacek, K. and Barrett, J., 2009, Seeing the Forest for the Trees? Using Qualitative Input-Output Methods to Compare Production Systems in Monetary and Physical Units, Ecological Economics, under revision.

Minx, J.C. and Baiocchi, G., 2009, Time and Sustainability, in: Suh, S. (ed.), Handbook of Input-Output Methods for Industrial Ecology, Springer, Doderecht.

Munksgaard, J., Minx, J.C., Christoffersen, L. and Pade, L.-L., 2009, Models for National CO2 Accounting, in: Suh, S. (ed.), Handbook of Input-Output Methods for Industrial Ecology, Springer, Doderecht.

Wiedmann, T. and Minx, J.C., 2008, A Definition of 'Carbon Footprint', in: Petsovam, C.C. (ed.), Ecological Economic Research Trends, Nova Science Publishers, Chapter 1: 55-65.

Wiedmann, T., Minx, J.C., Barrett, J. and Wackernagel, M., 2006, Allocating Ecological Footprints to Final Consumption Categories with Input-Output Analysis, Ecological Economics 56(1): 28-48.

Munksgaard, J., Pade, L.-'L., Minx, J.C. and Lenzen, M., 2005, Influence of Trade on National CO2 Emissions, International Journal of Global Energy Issues 23(4):324-336.

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