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

Research on Just Transition and Energy Poverty Presented at the Euromobi Conference

conference

2025-06-12

During the “Green Transformations” session (June 5, 2025) at the Europe and Mobilities (Euromobi) conference hosted by the University of Warsaw, Jakub Sokołowski presented IBS research findings.

IBS Research Results Presented at the Public Consultation Conference on the Social Climate Plan

conference

2025-06-12

Jakub Sokołowski participated in the public consultation conference on the draft Social Climate Plan (PSK), organised by the Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy.

New scientific studies by IBS researchers as part of the WeLaR project

labour market

2025-03-05

We present the findings of IBS researchers on changes in the labour market, which is strongly influenced by migration, the energy transition, the effects of the war in Ukraine and the COVID pandemic.

The Third ENBLOC Project Meeting in Warsaw

workshop

2025-02-21

On February 10-11, 2025, the last regular meeting of the ENBLOC project took place.

Invitation to Tender for a CAWI Survey in the Area of Environment and Climate

announcement

2025-01-10

The study is to be carried out under a European research grant in 3 countries.

Jakub Sokolowski – the young climate scientist of the year.

announcement

2024-12-09

Jakub Sokolowski received an award in the Ministry of Climate and Environment's ‘Climate Man of the Year’ competition in the Young Scientist category.

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Publications

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

Authors:

Joanna Mazurkiewicz

Jakub Sokołowski

policy paper

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, ...

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 ...

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Projects

Collective decision-making in investment, housing and unionisation in the energy transition

The project aims to answer the following question: how does collective decision-making in investments, housing, and the labour market impact the effectiveness of the energy transition.

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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