PhD Student

PhD position on Beyond-GDP environmental sustainability indicators

The Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) is opening a competitive call for applications for one Research Assistant position to work on issues related to environmental sustainability indicators. The selected person will take part in different projects aimed at developing novel environmental sustainability metrics based on the Environmental Sustainability Gap (ESGAP) framework.

In particular, the research in BC3 implies extending the country coverage of the Strong Environmental Sustainability Index (SESI) and computing the Monetary Environmental Sustainability Gap (M-ESGAP) of European countries. To that end the candidate will acquire knowledge on environmental-economic accounting to compute composite indicators that consider (1) environmental limits across a variety of topics and (2) options and investment needed to reach environmental sustainability in the future.

The research will be conducted at BC3 and in collaboration with other international research institutions.