The Climate Area of the FSR is pleased to announce its 11th Annual Conference on the Economic Assessment of European Climate Policies to take place at the European University Institute in Florence on Tuesday, 2 and Wednesday, 3 December 2025. The two-day academic conference will follow a high-level policy conference on the assessment and acceptability of net-zero climate policies on Monday, 1 December 2025.
The programme of the academic conference will cover some of the main climate policies at the EU and national and subnational levels. It will include a keynote speech, plenary speeches, as well as academic sessions focusing on carbon pricing and energy transition. To honour the memory of David W. Pearce on the 20th anniversary of his passing, a dedicated roundtable discussion on his legacy will be organised in collaboration with EAERE.
Simone Borghesi, Director of the FSR Climate, Professor and Deputy Rector for International Relationships at the University of Siena and President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), will chair the conference.
Call for papers
The Conference Scientific Committee welcomes economic and interdisciplinary research contributions. Applicants are warmly invited to submit papers focusing on:
Papers on the above topics will be considered for presentation at the conference. The presenting author should send the submissions, including the title, abstract and full text, in PDF format to FSRClimate@eui.eu by Sunday, 21 September.
The Conference Scientific Committee will evaluate submitted papers, and FSR Climate will communicate the results by Tuesday, 7 October.
Conference Scientific Committee (TBC): Valentina Bosetti (Bocconi University, FEEM, Italy), Marco Casari (University of Bologna, Italy), Antoine Dechezleprêtre (OECD), Massimo Filippini (Università della Svizzera Italiana and ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Matthieu Glachant (Ecole des mines de Paris, France), Ulrich Wagner (University of Mannheim, Germany).
FEES
The fee includes two lunches, a cocktail dinner in the city centre of Florence, and four coffee breaks. Registration and logistics details will be available closer to the date on this page. Participants in the academic conference are warmly invited to attend the high-level conference on the assessment and acceptability of net-zero climate policies in Europe and beyond for free, scheduled on Monday, 1 December.
This event is organised with the support of EAERE
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