Jakub Sokołowski

economist

Jakub holds a PhD in economics (Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw, with distinction). He researches the energy transformation of the residential sector, the social consequences of climate policies, inequalities, and energy poverty. He is an expert in the Polish Commissioner for Human Rights climate team. In the past, he was a member of the management committee of the COST Action dedicated to energy poverty in Europe. He is a fan of the poetry of Jacek Świtalski and Tytus Szyluk, Z-class movies and Italian football.

interests

environmental economics, behavioral and experimental economics, decentralized and prosumer energy, energy poverty

News

Inauguration of the LIFE LOCATEE project – 7/8 XI Warsaw

seminar

2024-11-14

The LIFE LOCATEE project's kick-off meeting took place in Warsaw on 7-8 November 2024. The project aims to support local authorities in tackling energy poverty through the energy modernisation of private multi-family buildings.

USAEE 2024 Conference in Baton Rouge and EPAH w Barcelona

conference, conference

2024-11-13

Jakub Sokolowski presented research and a new IBS project at international conferences.

Workshop for local authorities and final of the CARE project activities

energy and climate

2024-07-31

The CARE project implemented together with the City of Warsaw ends in July. The IBS team developed a tool for designing scenarios for modernizing municipal buildings and balancing social and environmental goals.

Jakub Sokołowski on the social consequences of the transformation

conference

2024-07-11

The energy transition and its consequences are a multi-faceted phenomenon. The nature and variety of its effects are presented by Jakub Sokolowski.

Karol Madoń and Jakub Sokołowski at the Sixth Baltic Economic Conference

conference

2024-07-11

On June 27-28, Karol Madoń and Jakub Sokołowski participated in the Sixth Baltic Economic Conference in Tallinn.

Panel on the Social Climate Fund at the European Housing Day featuring Jakub Sokołowski

conference

2023-11-17

IBS contribution to the European Housing Day organised by Habitat for Humanity in Brussels.

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Publications

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, ...

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 Prevent Yellow Vests? Evaluating Preferences for a Carbon Tax with a Discrete Choice Experiment.

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An ambitious climate policy can trigger tensions in societies with low trust and deep social divisions. 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 ...

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

Authors:

Jan Frankowski

Jakub Sokołowski

policy paper

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 ...

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 ...

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Projects

LOCATEE – Local authorities tackling energy poverty in private multi-apartment buildings

LOCATEE's overarching goal is to support local municipalities in addressing energy poverty through the renovation of private multi-apartment buildings for vulnerable residents

Housing landscape in the context of repurposing empty spaces for vulnerable populations.

The project's objective is to study the housing ecosystem in Poland, with a focus on mapping non-residential vacant properties within Polish local governments and adapting them to residential purposes.

Sun4All

The project's main objective is to set the strategic ground for the performance of the commitment made by the City of Warsaw to support, develop, and replicate the results of the Sun4All project.

Fostering ambitious and effective NECPs in Central and Eastern Europe

The project "Fostering ambitious and effective NECPs in Central and Eastern Europe" aims to impact energy and climate policies in Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, and Romania.

CARE: Carbon-neutral and Affordable Retrofits for Everyone in Need

The project aims to develop sequences for renovating municipal buildings in Warsaw, balancing environmental and social goals.

Energy poverty of women in Poland

The project aims to recognise Poland's gendered energy poverty patterns and enable more effective implementation of public policy measures to tackle energy poverty.

Identification of social groups and entities affected by energy poverty, transport exclusion with support strategy recommendations

The project aimed to synthesise data on social groups and entities vulnerable to fuel and energy price increases within the context of Social Climate Fund support

WeLaR – Welfare systems and labour market policies for economic and social resilience in Europe

The project aims to present proposals for creating social welfare and labour market policies that will respond to the changes taking place under the influence of megatrends - digitisation, globalisation, climate change and demographic change - in labour markets and welfare state systems in Europe.

ENBLOC – Enabling energy transition in postsocialist housing cooperatives

The project aims to assess the adaptive capacity of housing cooperatives in internalising energy transition based on the example of Poland and Czechia.

Mechanisms of supporting environmental fees in Poland

This project aims to assess the people’s preferences regarding the acceptance and redistribution of environmental fees in Poland.

Distributional Impact of Carbon Pricing in Central and Eastern Europe

The project studies the effects of the increasing carbon costs in the EU on the economically vulnerable groups of final energy consumers. It focuses on four East-European EU member states (Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, and Romania) – with higher-than-EU-average levels of fossil fuels dependence in their economic systems, and higher-than-EU-average energy poverty levels.

Labour force indirectly affected by coal mine closures

The aim of the project is to estimate and map the workforce employed in the Polish coal mines as well as the workforce employed by their subcontractors, indirectly affected by the coal transition in three regions: Silesia, Greater Poland, and Lower Silesia.

Guidelines for the Upper Silesian Territorial Just Transition Plan

The aim of the project was to provide analytical support and recommendations helpful in preparation of the Territorial Just Transition Plan as well as other strategic documents supporting low-carbon development pathway in the Upper Silesia Region.

Labour market in the Śląskie Voivodeship and climate neutrality in 2050

The aim of the project is to assess the impact of achieving climate neutrality on the labour market in the Śląskie Voivodeship. A just transformation of the Silesia region is crucial for reducing emissions of the energy sector and minimizing the social costs of this process.

TIPPING+ – Enabling positive tipping points towards clean energy transitions in coal and carbon-intensive regions

The aim of the project is to characterise and explain the decisive events, processes, major systems’ transformations and their effects on the transition of European CCIR toward clean energy; but also, to prevent the rise of undesirable outcomes like the rise of populism and anti-democratic attitudes.

Energy Poverty

The aim of the project is to show the factors affecting the phenomenon of energy poverty in Poland and the identification of effective social policy instruments to counter this problem.

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