ClimatEquality: climate change, public policies and inequalities

Ongoing projects

7/01

Reference
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Period
November 2024-November 2025

Duration
12 months

Funding body
PlanAPP (Science4Policy 2nd ed.)

Website
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Summary
The ClimatEquality project aims to develop an integrated and comprehensive diagnosis of the impacts of climate change on inequalities in the field of labor income and taxation, as well as contributing to the design and evaluation of public policies in this area. The analytical and methodological perspective of this project is based on the following assumption: work and employment play a central role in the constitution of societies, so the negative impacts of climate change pose structural political challenges.

This project will develop a diagnosis of the impacts of climate change and public policies aimed at addressing them on inequalities in the field of income from work and taxation, focusing on the Portuguese reality, but contextualizing it in cross-cutting and multidimensional trends seen on a European and global scale. This exercise will be based on a sequential and articulated research plan, supported from the outset by a theoretical, conceptual and statistical framework, but also by a benchmark of national, European and international policies aimed at adapting to climate transitions.

Based on these theoretical-conceptual and normative references, an analysis of the vulnerability of employment in Portugal to the impacts of the transition to a low-carbon economy will be carried out, with reference to the sector of activity and the turnover per employee of companies, as well as the socio-professional, contractual and remuneration profile of workers. The fundamental aim of this analysis is to measure the vulnerability of the Portuguese economy and the different territories to the transition to a low carbon economy. In a complementary way, and in conjunction with institutions participating in ClimatEquality and other stakeholders, a reflection will be developed on the challenges that the Just Green Transition poses for tax policies, the Social Security system and the supply of training and retraining of assets. This exercise will be an important dimension of the diagnosis and proposals that will emerge from the project.

This project is part of Science4Policy 2024 (S4P-24), the Science for Public Policy Studies competition, an initiative of the Center for Planning and Evaluation of Public Policies in partnership with the Foundation for Science and Technology, I. P. and funded by the Recovery and Resilience Plan.

Partner institutions:

PlanAPP
IEFP
General Secretariat for the Environment