Conference Agenda

In the face of the climate challenge, countries have implemented (or committed to implement) a large array of policies. These include pricing and non-pricing mitigation policies in addition to complementary policies such as job-transition programmes and industrial policies. Understanding what climate policies and policy packages work and in what circumstances is key to improving policy design and implementation, and accelerating countries’ emission reductions. It enables countries, regions and organisations to understand the effectiveness of their policies, to ensure that they are cost-effective, to learn from the experience of other countries, and to gain a better overall understanding of the scale of policy effort required to achieve climate goals.

To date, the understanding and systematic collection of empirical evidence remains limited, in particular for policies other than carbon pricing. Only few countries carry out comprehensive evaluations of main climate-related policies, often using different methodological approaches. Systematically synthesizing the fast-growing scientific literature that evaluates existing climate policies can provide a basis for accelerated learning on climate policies and help bridge gaps between research and policy making needs.

Moderator: Toon Vandyck, OECD

Panelists:

Tobias Kruse, OECD

Jan Minx, MCC

Elisa Lanzi, OECD

Thomas Stoerk, National Bank of Belgium

Jurgen Salay, Senior Expert at the EC DG CLIMA

Claire Gavard, Economist at EC DG CLIMA