Workshop: Mapping the Effects of Environmental Policies
Addressing environmental challenges related to air pollution, climate change and biodiversity loss requires increasingly stringent policy interventions. Environmental degradation and environmental policy can have considerable distributional implications, as reflected in current debates around “environmental justice” and a “just transition” in both the US and EU. This workshop is organized as the kick-off event of the project “Mapping the Effects of Environmental Policies (MEEP)”, which will receive the Joachim Herz Award.
MEEP proposes to assemble an open-science, public-service platform featuring interactive, Germany-wide maps of the effects of environmental policies, building on novel research and the integration of existing knowledge.
Addressing environmental challenges related to air pollution, climate change and biodiversity loss requires increasingly stringent policy interventions. Environmental degradation and environmental policy can have considerable distributional implications, as reflected in current debates around “environmental justice” and a “just transition” in both the US and EU. However, many knowledge gaps remain, such as:
- What are the effects of specific policy measures and how are their costs distributed across consumers and firms?
- How are the resulting environmental improvements distributed across the population, regions and economic sectors? Against this background, this workshop will explore how (distributional) effects of environmental policies can be captured more comprehensively and how these findings can be made available to the public. As suggested by the word “mapping”, included in the title, spatial disaggregation of policy benefits and costs will be a key focus.
This workshop is organized as the kick-off event of the project “Mapping the Effects of Environmental Policies (MEEP)”, which will receive the Joachim Herz Award for Economic Science during the workshop dinner. MEEP proposes to assemble an open-science, public-service platform featuring interactive, Germany-wide maps of the effects of environmental policies, building on novel research and the integration of existing knowledge.
This workshop will bring together researchers interested in
- identifying causal effects of environmental policies on environmental quality and economic outcomes,
- exploring the distributional effects of environmental policies,
- mapping the distribution of environmental quality across space,
- communicating scientific evidence on environmental policies to the broader public.
Format
This workshop will bring together around 30 to 40 participants, including invited presenters. Besides a keynote and invited presentations, the workshop will feature a limited number of shorter presentations or posters solicited via an open call. This format will provide a stimulating environment for productive discussions. The workshop will also feature a policy panel. There is no attendance fee and we cover accommodation, board and, if required, travel.
Open Call
We invite interested researchers to submit contact details and the paper they would like to present until March 11, 2024 via an online submission form.
Keynote Speaker
Irene C. Dedoussi, University of Cambridge
Date
April 28–30, 2024
Venue
Participants are accommodated at the Motel One Hamburg-Fleetinsel. The workshop will take place at different locations throughout the city: on the premises of the Joachim Herz Foundation in Hamburg Langenhorn, in the iconic Elbphilharmonie, and in the Penthouse Elb-Panorama.
Hosts
The workshop is organized by the Sustainability Economics Group at the Department of Economics and the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability at the University of Hamburg (Pier Basaglia, Björn Bos, Moritz Drupp and Felix Schaumann) and the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University (Lutz Sager). The workshop is funded by the Joachim Herz Stiftung.