Workshop

Environmental policy and inequality are closely intertwined: inequality shapes how environmental damages and benefits are valued and who supports which policies; in turn, environmental degradation, and the policies addressing it, have important distributional consequences. The workshop welcomes theoretical, empirical, and policy-oriented papers that advance our understanding of these links.

Focus areas include:

• Distributional effects of environmental policies (taxes, ETS, standards), including revenue recycling/compensation
• Environmental justice and inequality (income, gender, ethnicity): unequal exposure to pollution and climate risks
• Political economy of inequality and the environment: how inequality shapes policy appraisal, support, and adoption
• The green transition’s winners and losers: labour-market and regional impacts of decarbonization

Submissions on all settings are welcome; studies focused on Eastern Europe are especially encouraged.