Andrea Molocchi, an economist with a Master of Science degree in Economic and Social Disciplines from Bocconi University Milan (1989), currently serves as Coordinator for European Research activities at the Department for Sustainable Development and Energy Sources (SFE) of RSE SpA. This Italian public research institute provides support to the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security and other Authorities. His career has been dedicated to research and consultancy in the assessment of external environmental costs, cost-benefit analysis, environmental taxation, and sustainable finance. From 2016 to 2019, he was employed by Sogesid to work at the Italian Ministry of the Environment Land and Sea, where he contributed to the first three editions of the Report on Natural Capital in Italy and to the first three editions of the Catalogue of Environmentally Harmful or Friendly Subsidies. He authored the report for the Impact Assessment Office of the Senate of the Republic titled "Does the polluter pay? Environmental taxes and environmentally harmful subsidies" (2017). His recent publications include “Circular Economy and Environmental Sustainability: A Policy Coherence Analysis of Current Italian Subsidies” in Sustainability 2021, and "Valuing the social cost of carbon: Do economists really care about climate change?" in EPEE n.2/2023. Additionally, he has contributed articles to the Global Conference on Environmental Taxation - GCET17 in Groningen and GCET19 in Madrid.

Giulio Mela is an environmental economist at RSE - Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico, Milan. This Italian public research center is controlled by the Ministry of Economy and Finance through the GSE group and provides research support to the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security and the Authority for Energy, Networks and the Environment (ARERA). He received an M.Sc. in Management, Economics and Consumer Studies – Economics, Environment and Policy from Wageningen University in 2008 and a PhD in Land, Environment, Resources and Health, specialization in Economics from the University of Padua in 2013. In the past, he worked at the Italian Institute of Agricultural Economics (INEA) and, as a post-doc in agricultural and environmental economics, at the Catholic University of Milan. Current research interests include natural resource use, externality and ecosystem services evaluation, effects of active mobility on health, cost-benefit analysis and impact analysis with supply & use models. His recent publications include: Mela, G., Girardi, P., 2022. Health effects of active mobility and their economic value: Unit benefit factor estimates for Italy. Journal of Transport & Health 26, 101487. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2022.101487 Mela, G., Carvalho, M.L., Temporelli, A., Girardi, P., 2021. The Commodity Life Cycle Costing Indicator. An Economic Measure of Natural Resource Use in the Life Cycle. Sustainability 13, 4870. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13094870