Environment, Policies, and Risks: Heterogeneities in Climate Change and Sustainability

Climate change and disruptive technologies are causing growing concerns about the future trajectories of environmental transition that our societies will experience. The outcomes in terms of labour market opportunities, business strategies, consumption's patterns, and energy choices are uncertain. The heterogeneity of risks and their impacts calls for appropriate policies to address environmental degradation and pursue social equity.

The 14th JT FAERE 2024 will focus on heterogeneities, climate change and sustainability. The diversity of social values, technological trajectories, financial markets, income and environmental inequalities results in heterogeneous responses to environmental damages at individual, sectoral and aggregate levels. New dimensions of conflict and cooperation emerge, depending on the interests at stake. This conference aims to gather theoretical and applied contributions in economics, in order to improve our understanding of the heterogeneous strategies developed by firms, investors, consumers, and policy makers in the face of climate change, its causes and its consequences.
We encourage contributions dealing with the following topics:

• New dimensions and diversity of climate-related risks, financial markets ;
• Heterogeneous effects on labour markets, inequality, just transitions ;
• Climate change and technological innovations ;
• Firms' and consumers' strategies, energy choices ;
• Heterogeneous environmental policies, political economy.

Keynote speakers

• Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline (Paris School of Economics)
• Stefano Giglio (Yale University) (remotely)
• Francesco Quatraro (University of Turin)
• Richard Tol (University of Sussex)
• Francesco Vona (University of Milan and FEEM)