Anna-Theresa Renner (p), Erich Striesnigg, Roman Hoffmann, Leora Courtney-Wolfman, Ingrid Setz, Raya Muttarak

Eduardo Sanguinet

Extreme weather events such as heat waves are expected to become more frequent and intense as a consequence of global warming. No doubt, this will affect the health and well-being of all populations, including those in regions with moderate climates like Central Europe. Using spatiotemporal meteorological data and an exhaustive administrative database on all hospital admissions from 2009 to 2018 in the metropolitan area of Vienna, Austria, we model the relationship between thermal hazards and hospitalizations. Differentiating by age, sex, socioeconomic status, and degree of urbanization allows us to account for the effects of demographic dynamics, heterogeneity, and agglomeration effects when projecting the future burden of urban heat on health and healthcare. To the best of our knowledge, no other study to date considers climate effects on health in conjunction with the differential vulnerability of the exposed population in an urban environment.

Eduardo Sanguinet (p), Carlos Azzoni

Anna-Theresa Renner

We computed the main structural factors associated with changes in total CO2 emissions in the Brazilian economy, considering both consumption and income sides from 2011 to 2018. The study innovates by incorporating the regional dimension and the perspective of income (value-added) further associated with consumption (final consumption), identifying the main driver-specific factors generally ignored by the literature from an input-output technique. Subnational regions have an important role in terms of the carbon emissions content generated and transferred through the subnational supply chain. For policy purposes, the results shed light on the role of regional disparities in pollution intensity and in identifying the environmental responsibility of the country's domestic supply chain.