Events

At the fourth steering committee meeting, we first presented the results of the second survey aimed at examining public preferences for carbon pricing policies. The results from the combined computable general equilibrium and microsimulation models were also presented, studying the labour market impacts of different realistic climate tax shift options. The second survey, which focused… Read more: 4 February 2026: 4th Steering Committee

At the steering committee, we presented the first results of both the computable general equilibrium and the microsimulation models, as well as the results of the first survey on public acceptability. The model results highlighted the labor market and distributional impacts of a standard climate tax shift (CTS) scenario. We found that such CTS could… Read more: 4 February 2025: 3rd Steering Committee

At the second meeting of the steering committee, HIVA presented the design of the first sociological survey, whose objective is to identify which factors affect the level of public acceptability of carbon pricing, by focusing on policy design. A test survey was conduced beforehand with a limited panel. The results of this test survey were… Read more: 17 January 2024: 2nd Steering Committee

The first meeting of the steering committee was the opportunity to thoroughly present the E4BEL project. We began by presenting the backbone of the project: the combined use of macroeconomic, microeconomic and sociological methods in order to assess the equity, efficiency and acceptability of carbon pricing in Belgium. HIVA will develop surveys to assess the… Read more: 3 February 2023: 1st Steering Committee