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2025-06-06 Social Climate Fund. How to protect householdsfrom rising energy prices?

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The new carbon tax (ETS2) will increase the cost of heating with coal and gas starting in 2027. Rising energy prices raise concerns about a growing risk of energy poverty. The Social Climate Fund is intended to protect vulnerable households from excessive price increases. It ...

2025-03-31 Peer effects and inequalities in technology uptake. Evidence from a large-scale subsidy programme

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The success of energy transition in addressing climate change depends on several factors, including the affordability of new technologies and the influence of peers within communities. However, concerns about affordability raise questions about how economic inequalities shape peer effects and whether they create barriers to ...

2024-12-17 Reporting theatre: Understanding housing cooperative strategies during energy crisis

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The importance of energy as a common good becomes especially pronounced during crises. This paper reconstructs the response of housing cooperatives to the energy crisis by applying Kenneth Burke’s five categories of theatre interpretation and eighteen impression management strategies inspired by Erving Goffman’s dramaturgical sociology ...

2024-07-31 Facilitating data-driven retrofits to alleviate energy poverty in Warsaw

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The study includes a procedure and recommendations for collecting data on energy poverty at the building level, available in national and local government registers. The adopted analytical process allowed for developing various energy renovation scenarios for municipal buildings in Warsaw, considering a balance between social, ...

2024-03-11 How to use social support networks to tackle energy poverty?

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Some households in an energy poverty crisis cannot rely on support from other people. Also, the effectiveness of programs combating energy poverty is limited due to difficulties in reaching households in crisis. Without institutional, material, and emotional support, people experiencing energy poverty cannot improve their ...

2023-10-02 Housing cooperatives facing the energy transition. Insights from Poland and Czechia

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This study constitutes preliminary analytical material concerning the adaptative capacity of housing cooperatives to accommodate energy transition in Poland and Czechia. This report comprehensively utilises administrative data from Polish and Czech national registers for the first time. These data have been employed to (1) compare ...

2023-05-24 Distributional effects of carbon pricing in Poland

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The report aims to indicate the potential effects of climate policy and point out mechanisms to reduce inequalities caused by increased energy prices. Based on the macroeconomic model and microsimulation, we present the effects of carbon pricing and its consequences for economic sectors and households ...

2023-04-27 How to Avoid Another Yellow Vests Movement? Evaluating Preferences for a Carbon Tax with a Discrete Choice Experiment.

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Climate policy can trigger tensions in divided societies with low trust. We examine public preferences for policies to achieve energy security and climate change mitigation goals in the context of the energy crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. We conducted a discrete choice experiment ...

2023-04-27 Is Poland on track to becoming another France? How to avoid social conflicts sparked by a country’s climate policy?

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Jan Frankowski

Jakub Sokołowski

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Climate policy is crucial for preventing the devastating effects of natural disasters like droughts, floods, and heat waves. It also plays a vital role in reducing Poland's dependence on imported coal, gas, and oil, addressing energy security concerns in the wake of the crisis caused ...

2023-03-27 Energy poverty among women in Poland

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Women who independently manage households constitute a social group particularly vulnerable to energy poverty. This vulnerability stems from several factors, including low-income levels associated with gender pay and pension gaps. Additionally, the increased risk of energy poverty is shaped by specific energy needs and traditional ...

2022-12-19 How to ensure a just approach to retrofitting social housing?

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Widespread modernisation of social housing is essential if the country is to avoid exacerbating energy poverty in its cities. In Poland, the inhabitants of social housing estates are people with low and insecure incomes; their homes are often in poor condition and are usually heated ...

2022-11-22 Mapping the indirect employment of hard coal mining: a case study of Upper Silesia, Poland

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It is insufficient to calculate the number of jobs in the mining industry to determine the labour market effects of a coal phase-out. This paper estimates the scale of mining-related and mining-dependent jobs in Europe’s largest hard coal mining region: Upper Silesia. In addition, we ...