Matsumoto Lab.

04/11/2024

Energy poverty paper accepted from Energy Economics

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The domain of energy poverty is increasingly recognised as a multifaceted global challenge stemming from limited income, high energy costs, and ineffi…

11/03/2024

Attended and presented at Interdisciplinary Workshop on Energy and Environment held in Paris.

22/02/2024

Successfully finished J-TREE workshop at Tohoku Gakuin University, our first workshop outside Tokyo.

04/11/2023

One paper has been published, which is a collaboration with a grad student of Kyushu university .

Shimomura, M, Keeley, A, Matsumoto, K, Tanaka, K, Managi, S (2024) Beyond the merit order effect: Impact of the rapid expansion of renewable energy on electricity market price. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews 189, 114037

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2023.114037

https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1i1kP_V0xP0-9V
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17/08/2023

Our paper, published in 2021 by Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

Tachiiri, Su, and Matsumoto (2021) Identifying key processes and sectors in the interaction between climate and socio-economic systems: a review toward integrating Earth–human systems. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 8, 24.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-021-00418-7

is selected as the most downloaded paper award 2023.

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07/08/2023

Our paper is now published (open access!).

Adjei-Mantey, K., Matsumoto, K., Shigetomi, Y., Yamamoto, Y., and Nakayama, T. (2023) Factors affecting household air pollutants in West Africa: Evidence from Ghana and Nigeria. Energy for Sustainable Development 76, 101288.

In sub-Saharan African countries, exposure to air pollutants, such as fine particulate matter (PM2.5), in the residential sector is a serious environm…

28/07/2023

Featured in the Keizai Seminar.

18/05/2023

One open-access paper published by Carbon Balance and Management.

Morita, K. and Matsumoto, K. (2023) Challenges and Lessons Learned for REDD+ Finance and its Governance. Carbon Balance and Management 18, 8.

Discussion on reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries began at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties in 2005, and the agenda for “reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and the role of conservation,...

11/04/2023

昨年度から働いてくださってる秘書さん（研究事務補助員）が急遽辞めることになったので、新たに募集します。
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07/02/2023

One paper written by my student at Nagasaki University is published from Applied Energy.

Zhang, T., Nakagawa, K. and Matsumoto, K.* (2023) Evaluating Solar Photovoltaic Power Efficiency Based on Economic Dimensions for 26 Countries Using a Three-stage Data Envelopment Analysis. Applied Energy 335, 120714 [doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.120714]

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.120714

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This paper proposes a new concept for solar photovoltaic (PV) power efficiency and explores a new direction by considering such efficiency at the nati…