A meeting of young researchers in Ljubljana (21-25.08.2023) dealt with issues of political ecology. Aleksandra Prusak presented her article at it.
In 2023 we will start a new international project OPUS WEAVE devoted to housing and energy transition.
Jakub Sokołowski and Jan Frankowski participated in a final meeting of COST ENGAGER Network Conference „Engaging with energy poverty in times of crisis” (11-13.04.2022).
In the new international project, we will analyse the effects of the increasing carbon costs in the EU on the economically vulnerable groups of final energy consumers in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. The project is part of the European Climate Initiative (EUKI).
The Institute for Structural Research (IBS) cooperated with the Ministry of Finance in Chile and the World Bank to conduct an economic analysis of the costs of Chile’s new ambitious climate change mitigation plan which would ensure carbon neutrality of the country in 2050.
In the new project funded by the Horizon 2020 programme we will analyse what makes clean-energy transitions in Coal and Carbon Intensive Regions successful and effective. IBS will carry out an analysis of labour market implications of coal transition and a study on tipping points in the rise of populism.
Jan Witajewski-Baltvilks presented IBS research from the Coal Transitions project at an international meeting of energy and resource sector experts – Cape Town, 26-27.02.
We presented our research at COP24 in Katowice on the Polish coal industry, low-emissions transformation pathways, and energy poverty.
Decarbonisation pathway will involve higher costs than the baseline pathway, but the electricity sector will emit half the CO2 by 2050. Read the key findings from the IBS report and seminar (28.11.).
On November 6, in Brussels, TRANSrisk consortium organised policy lunch entitled ‘Paris in Practice: Understanding the Risks and Uncertainties’.
On December 10 in Katowice (Poland) we will co-organise the workshop about coal transitions in Poland. Register by December 7.
Jan Witajewski-Baltvilks presented his research conducted within TRANSrisk project at the 33rd Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (EEA).
