Policy Outreach Events

David W. Pearce dedicated roundtable

28 October 2025By

 

To honour the memory of David W. Pearce on the 20th anniversary of his passing, a dedicated roundtable discussion on his legacy will be organised during the 11th Annual Conference on the Economic Assessment of European Climate Policies in collaboration with EAERE Policy Outreach Committee. The session will take place in person on December 2, 2025 at 3:45-4:45 pm CET and will be chaired by Simone Borghesi (EUI, University of Siena). Invited speakers include Astrid Agostini (FAO), Ben Groom (University of Exeter), Xavier Labandeira (University of Vigo), and Massimiliano Mazzanti (University of Ferrara). The Conference, supported by EAERE, is organised by the Climate Area of the FSR on December 2-3, 2025 at the EUI in Florence (Italy). Free registration will open soon on the event’s page.

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3rd International Workshop of the Eco-innovation Society

28 October 2025By

 

The Society for Eco-innovation Studies is pleased to announce its 3rd international workshop on “Eco-innovation for decarbonization and circularity: aligning business and policy with planetary boundaries”. The event will be hosted by the University of Ferrara and SEEDS (Italy) on November 27-28, 2025. It will feature Will McDowall (UCL) and Fernando J. Díaz López (HEC Paris) as keynote speakers. The call for papers is open until November 5, 2025. Learn more and register here.

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SEEDS Christmas PhD Day

28 October 2025By

 

The Sustainability Environmental Economics and Dynamics Studies (SEEDS) research centre is glad to announce its Christmas PhD Day on December 15, 2025 at 9:00 am – 7:00 pm CET at the University of Ferrara (Italy). The keynote speaker is Jacopo Cammeo (EUI). For those who wish to present a paper, confirmations will be provided by mid November. You can attend only as a listener and no confirmation is necessary. Register by November 7, 2025 at this link.

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CAPABLE Workshop “Improving Climate Policies through Better Assessment and Public Acceptance Inclusion”

28 October 2025By

 

The CAPABLE capacity-building workshop “Improving Climate Policies through Better Assessment and Public Acceptance Inclusion” will share project findings for effective and acceptable climate policies at the European level. Organised online by the European University Institute (EUI) with contributions from leading experts in the CAPABLE consortium, it will focus on climate policies, their effectiveness and their acceptability. The lectures will be complemented with extensive question-and-answer sessions and some testimonials from practitioners. The online workshop is scheduled on 30 October 2025 @ 9:00 am – 12:30 pm CET.

Register at https://fsr.eui.eu/event/improving-climate-policies-through-better-assessment-and-public-acceptance-inclusion/

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Conference on evidence-based climate policy

27 October 2025By

 

On 1st December 2025, the EUI will host a hybrid conference on evidence-based climate policy, marking the conclusion of two major European research projects: LIFE COASE and CAPABLE. The conference will present key findings covering topics such as the effectiveness and global impact of the EU ETS, the distributional effects of carbon pricing, and the conditions under which climate policies can gain broader societal acceptance. The event will bring together researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders to foster dialogue on future directions for climate policy in Europe. Free registration available here.

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CAPABLE Workshop “Aligning EU Climate Policies with Regional and Local Action”

27 October 2025By

 

Join the online workshop on “Aligning EU Climate Policies with Regional and Local Action” taking place on November 27, 2025 at 2:00-5:50 pm CET. Hosted online by the European University Institute (EUI) within the CAPABLE project, the capacity-building workshop will explore how EU climate policies work, how they intersect with local realities and how cities and regions can shape and support a just and effective transition. Read more and register to the event at this link.

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NSC ISSAR Conference “Soil Health as a Component of the Strategy of a Unified Health of Society”

21 October 2025By

 

The Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry Research named after O.N. Sokolovsky (NSC ISSAR) is glad to announce the international scientific and practical conference “Soil Health as a Component of the Strategy of a Unified Health of Society“, dedicated to the World Soil Day 2025. The conference will take place online on December 3, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. (Kyiv time). Read more and register at this link.

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Schools

EAERE Winter School in Resource and Environmental Economics – People’s understanding of and support for environmental policies

7 October 2025By

 

Many environmental challenges require the use of economic instruments aimed at changing people’s (and firms’) behavior. Identifying such economic instruments, including their optimal level of stringency, and evaluating, ex post, their (cost-)effectiveness is one of economists’ main tasks. However, economists are increasingly realizing that examining the functioning of policies may represent the easy part. Getting the general public and policymakers to support these policies, even if very well founded, is often the hard part.

This Winter School aims at bringing students to the frontier of the literature, to ensure that future research is as innovative as possible, and that the frontier of knowledge moves as fast as society needs it to do. The Winter School also has a strong methodological focus, to ensure that the research produced by the cohort of students attending it is rigorous and provides actionable insights to policymakers, with an eye on scale and scalability. The Winter School provides lessons on the design of experiments along the continuum (from lab experiment to natural field experiment), survey design, elicitation of beliefs, and benefits and drawbacks of revealed versus stated preferences, and policy evaluation and the causal analysis of public support.

Lessons from other disciplines, including political science and psychology, are also introduced to complement insights from economics. Finally, the Winter School aims at creating a community of scholars with a shared interest in understanding people’s understanding of environmental policies, how it shapes society, and how it may be improved.

School’s website.

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Supported Events

2026 Conference on Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics – SURED

7 October 2025By

 

The 2026 Monte Verità Conference on Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics – SURED will be held from 31 May to 4 June 2026 on Monte Verità in Ascona (Switzerland).

SURED conferences

The SURED conferences have become well-known events in the fields of resource, energy and environmental economics and dynamic economic theory. By bringing together leading experts and young scientists from different disciplines and countries, SURED 2026 will provide a forum for the discussion of the latest developments in the field and for identifying future research agendas. SURED takes place every two years on Monte Verità in Ascona.

Concept note

Governments are increasingly using industrial policy to address the transition to a low-carbon economy. Such policy aims to transform the structure of the economy by providing support to specific industries, companies or technologies, and to secure and reshape global value chains for critical materials. The recent surge of industrial policy as a tool to achieve the clean energy transition is thus highly relevant for the field of environmental economics when it comes to making policy-relevant recommendations. While economic theory has long criticized industrial policy on the ground of coordination failures and advocated carbon pricing instead as the main policy, there is a need for more systematic theoretical and empirical analysis about the benefits and costs of such policies.

SURED 2026 will provide an opportunity to present and discuss the latest research in this area, and more generally in the area of climate policy. It will explore how economic policy can limit the most severe adverse impacts and identify potential opportunities that will help map a path forward into a sustainable future.

Keynote speakers

Call for papers

The call for paper is available on the Conference’s website.

Organising Committee

Beat Hintermann, University of Basel
Joëlle Noailly, Geneva Graduate Institute & VU Amsterdam
Sjak Smulders, Tilburg University
Christa Brunnschweiler, University of East Anglia
Corrado Di Maria, University of East Anglia

More information

Details about the Conference will be shared in due time. To stay updated please visit the Conference’s website. For additional information contact sured@unibas.ch.

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