Projects & Publications#

How MARIO is used in research projects and peer-reviewed publications, and the software projects it works closely with.

Research projects#

Builds data and models to assess how trade and trade policy interact with climate, industry and environmental outcomes.

Extended integrated assessment modelling for climate policy beyond technology pathways, with model ensembles and co-creation.

Studied how sufficiency and lifestyle change can contribute to deep decarbonisation.

Close software projects#

Python library for multi-regional input-output analysis. Databases move between the two tools with parse_from_pymrio and to_pymrio.

GitHub Docs Article

Python laboratory for convex optimisation models, built on cvxpy. MARIO uses it to solve the sector split in add_sectors, with more integrations to come.

GitHub Docs

Curated list of open-source software for industrial ecology. MARIO is listed among the input-output analysis tools, next to pymrio.

GitHub

Publications (17)#

2026

Journal of Industrial Ecology · 30(5)

Environmental and socio-economic implications of solar photovoltaic reshoring under the EU Net Zero Industry Act: a hybrid input-output assessment

Lorenzo Rinaldi, Raffaele Merletti, Camilla Citterio, Nicolò Golinucci, Matteo Vincenzo Rocco

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Journal of Industrial Ecology

Carbon intensity of electricity: a systematic methodological and quantitative review

Camilla Citterio, Nicolò Golinucci, Lorenzo Rinaldi, Matteo Vincenzo Rocco

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Sustainable Futures · 11

Impact of sufficiency on achieving the EU's 2030 and 2050 greenhouse gas emissions targets

Erwin M. Schau, Nicolò Golinucci, Filippo Beltrami, Matteo Vincenzo Rocco, Matteo Giacomo Prina, Lorenzo Rinaldi, Wolfram Sparber

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Environmental Science & Technology · 60(24)

Linking Global Integrated Assessment and Hybrid Input–Output Models To Support Steel Decarbonization Policies in Europe

Debora Ghezzi, Lorenzo Rinaldi, Russell Horowitz, Dirk-Jan van de Ven, Georg Holtz, Alexander Jülich, Matteo Vincenzo Rocco

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Journal of Industrial Ecology

Structural drivers and outsourcing effects in Germany's greenhouse gas emissions: a multi-perspective, sectoral decomposition (1996–2022)

Philipp Daun, Jonathan Kummer, Aaron Praktiknjo

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Energy Strategy Reviews · 64

A multi-model assessment of technological constraints on Europe's energy transition

Panagiotis Fragkos, Eleftheria Zisarou, Dirk-Jan Van De Ven, Shivika Mittal, Lorenzo Rinaldi, Matteo Rocco, Clàudia Rodés-Bachs, Natasha Frilingou, Conall Heussaff, Alexandros Nikas

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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition · 10

An integrated modelling assessment of Indonesia's electricity sector transition and economic growth

Diya Tabina Joebhaar, Raphael Slade, Mark Howells, Fernando Plazas-Niño, Lorenzo Rinaldi, Matteo Vincenzo Rocco

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Sustainability · 18(12)

Application of Economic, Environmental, and Social Methods and Indicators for Assessing the Sustainability Impact of Three Mini-Grid Projects: Case Studies in Mozambique

Emília Inês Come Zebra, Henny J. van der Windt, René M. J. Benders, Debora Ghezzi, Matteo V. Rocco, Muhammad Shoaib Ahmed Khan, Busola Dorcas Akintayo, André P. C. Faaij

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2025

Energy Strategy Reviews · 62

IMPACCT: An integrated assessment model for policy and financial decision-making in energy planning

Naomi Tan, Ioannis Vrochidis, Hannah Luscombe, Emma Richardson, Fernando Plazas-Niño, Kane Alexander, Leigh Martindale, Neve Fields, Mark Howells, Vivien Foster, John Harrison

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Ecological Economics · 235

The role of sufficiency measures in a decarbonizing Europe

Nicolò Golinucci, Matteo Vincenzo Rocco, Matteo Giacomo Prina, Filippo Beltrami, Lorenzo Rinaldi, Erwin M. Schau, Wolfram Sparber

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Journal of Circular Economy · 3(1)

A Novel Framework to Measure Circularity Trade-offs and Synergies in the Global Context

Glenn A. Aguilar-Hernandez

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Environmental Research: Energy · 2(3)

Relaxing EU hydrogen criteria: a cost and emission comparison of unrestricted and green electrolytic hydrogen in 2030

Negar Namazifard, Mohammad Amin Tahavori, Wouter Nijs, Pieter Vingerhoets, Erik Delarue

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2024

International Journal of Transport Development and Integration · 8(4)

The Supply and Use Framework Can Be Exploited for Comparing Technologies Serving Similar Needs: The Case of the Italian Heavy-Duty Road Sector

Anna Vinciguerra, Lorenzo Rinaldi, Matteo Vincenzo Rocco, Emanuela Colombo

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Sustainability · 16(22)

The Integration of Economic, Environmental, and Social Aspects by Developing and Demonstrating an Analytical Framework That Combines Methods and Indicators Using Mavumira Village as a Case Study

Emília Inês Come Zebra, Henny J. van der Windt, Jorge Olívio Penicela Nhambiu, Nicolò Golinucci, Marta Gandiglio, Isabella Bianco, André P. C. Faaij

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Environmental Research Letters · 19(7)

Assessing environmental and market implications of steel decarbonisation strategies: a hybrid input-output model for the European union

Lorenzo Rinaldi, Debora Ghezzi, Emanuela Colombo, Matteo Vincenzo Rocco

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Energy · 290

Three different directions in which the European Union could replace Russian natural gas

Alexandros Nikas, Natasha Frilingou, Conall Heussaff, Panagiotis Fragkos, Shivika Mittal, Jon Sampedro, Sara Giarola, Jan-Philipp Sasse, Lorenzo Rinaldi, Haris Doukas, Ajay Gambhir, Anastasis Giannousakis, Nicolò Golinucci, Konstantinos Koasidis, Matteo Vincenzo Rocco, Evelina Trutnevyte, Georgios Xexakis, Georg Zachmann, Eleftheria Zisarou, Emanuela Colombo, Adam Hawkes, Brinda Yarlagadda, Matthew Binsted, Gokul Iyer, Rasmus Magni Johannsen, Jakob Zinck Thellufsen, Henrik Lund, Dirk-Jan Van de Ven

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2023

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Journal of Open Research Software · 11

MARIO: A Versatile and User-Friendly Software for Building Input-Output Models

Mohammad Amin Tahavori, Nicolò Golinucci, Lorenzo Rinaldi, Matteo Vincenzo Rocco, Emanuela Colombo

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