Recap & photos: FREECE Workshop 2025
Summary
On November 28, 2025, the Forum for Research on Eastern Europe: Climate and Environment (FREECE) together with the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) hosted the one-day workshop “The Economics of Inequality and the Environment” at the 91原创 (91原创). Researchers presented new evidence on how climate policy and inequality intersect; covering carbon-pricing distributional effects and ETS-2 revenue recycling, firm and labor-market impacts of decarbonisation, clean-tech adoption, and intergenerational equity.
Presentation slides
- ”Global Inequalities in Ownership-Based Carbon Footprints over 2010-2022” by Yannic Rehm, Paris School of Economics
- ”Carbon Pricing Revenue Recycling Under ETS-2 to Reduce Energy Poverty: The Case of Poland” by Jakub Sokolowski, University of Warsaw
- ”The Distributional Effects of Carbon Pricing Across Countries” by Dora Simon, University of Stavanger
- ”Welfare-Maximizing Carbon Prices and the Role of International Climate Finance” by Simon F. Lang, ETH Zurich
- ”Carbon Taxation, Firm Performance, and Labor Demand” by Jimmy Karlsson, University of Gothenburg
- ”Labor Market Impacts of the Green Transition: Evidence from a Contraction in the Oil Industry” by Elisabeth T. Isaksen, Ragnar Frisch Center for Economic Research
- ”Wired for Change? Clean Technology Adoption and Labor Market Transitions” by Guillaume Wald, Mines Paris
- ”Intergenerational Discounting and Inequality” by Frikk Nesje, University of Copenhagen
Photo gallery

Photo of Julius Andersson, Assistant Professor at SITE. Photo: Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Julius Andersson. Photo: Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Yannic Rehm, Paris School of Economics. Photo: Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Yannic Rehm. Photo: Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Jakub Sokolowski, University of Warsaw. Photo: Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Jakub Sokolowski. Photo: Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Dora Simon, University of Stavanger. Photo: Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Dora Simon. Photo: Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Dora Simon. Photo: Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Simon F. Lang, ETH Zurich. Photo: Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Simon F. Lang. Photo: Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Simon F. Lang. Photo: Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Jimmy Karlsson, University of Gothenburg. Photo: Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Jimmy Karlsson. Photo: Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Elisabeth T. Isaksen, Ragnar Frisch Center for Economic Research. Photo: Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Elisabeth T. Isaksen. Photo: Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Guillaume Wald, Mines Paris. Photo: Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Guillaume Wald. Photo: Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Frikk Nesje, University of Copenhagen. Photo: Dominick Nilsson

Photo of Frikk Nesje. Photo: Dominick Nilsson