Deadline Extended for Abstract Submission: July 7, 2024
The interplay between decarbonization strategies and the macroeconomy plays a crucial role in informing equitable and effective public policy to ensure a just transition, and requires innovative multifaceted approaches. To foster interdisciplinary dialogue, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will hold a public workshop on September 12-13, 2024 to distill key insights from scientific and economic research efforts to inform effective decarbonization policies and actions within the broader macroeconomic landscape and to explore and address their macroeconomic and socioeconomic implications.
To inform workshop discussions, the workshop committee would like to invite a series of invited poster presentations highlighting innovative approaches to addressing key challenges and themes of the workshop scope (detailed below). Early-career applicants are highly encouraged. Selected abstracts will have the opportunity to participate in the full workshop in person in Washington, DC or virtually.
This project is funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Science Foundation, Bezos Earth Fund, Wallace Global Fund, and William and Flora Hewlett Fund. More information about the project is available on our website.
Invited to apply: Researchers, scholars, practitioners, community group leaders, and industry and government experts from all disciplines are all welcome to submit abstracts. Early-career applicants are highly encouraged.
Submission Focus: We welcome abstract submissions with varied focuses. These include, but are not limited to, presentations on research, practice, and policy/education (details in survey).
Topical Themes:
We welcome contributions covering innovative research and/or practices/applications using a range of approaches, including but not limited to, theory, data/modeling tools, and frameworks, on the following themes:
- Economic Risks and Opportunities: Risks are potential adverse outcomes that could emerge as we progress. The process of decarbonization carries inherent economic risks, while concurrently presenting opportunities for future economic growth. Potential economic risks and opportunities associated with decarbonization span areas such as finance, labor, supply chains, and the political economy. Explore these potential economic risks and how public policy can either exacerbate or mitigate these risks and help harness potential opportunities.
- Barriers to Decarbonization and Solutions: Barriers are obstacles that hinder or obstruct progress. Potential barriers to achieving decarbonization goals include technical, social, legal, and political obstacles. Explore their implications, potential interconnections, and possible solutions to eliminate or overcome these barriers.
- Incorporating Modeling Insights into Policy Design: Current and emerging innovative methods for incorporating insights from various modeling disciplines, e.g., energy systems modeling, into macroeconomic models with a focus on applications to actionable decarbonization policy design.
- Global Interactions: The interplay among the U.S. economy and supply chains, other nation’s energy transitions, and the global economy in the context of the global energy transition.
- Other Cross-cutting Themes: Including but not limited to:
Role of policy (e.g., to kick-start transitions, complementary approaches to mitigate risk and equity challenges, etc.)
Equity and Distributional Effects in the Transition (e.g., local/regional distributional and structural change effects and their implications on certain geographic, underserved, and vulnerable populations)
Temporal Dimensions (e.g., ex post versus ex ante)
Submission Guidelines: Abstracts should be limited to 250 words in length. Please provide the name, affiliation, and contact information of the corresponding author(s), as well as identify by number the topical theme of the abstract submission (options above). Please submit your abstracts by July 7, 2024, through our submission form (next page).
Selection Process: Abstracts will be reviewed by the workshop planning committee. Authors will be notified of acceptance by email in late July.
Invited Poster Presentation Guidelines: Accepted authors will be invited to present their work, either in-person in Washington, D.C. or virtually, at the upcoming workshop on Macroeconomic Implications of Decarbonization Policies and Actions, held on September 12-13, 2024, with the opportunity for travel support.
Invited authors will be required to prepare a poster and present their work to the workshop participants, with ample time to engage with workshop participants during discussions on their presentations and workshop themes. Authors are encouraged to present practical recommendations and policy insights for an interdisciplinary research plan to support macroeconomic modeling efforts to inform a just energy transition for decarbonization. Additional presentation guideline details will be provided upon acceptance. Invited presenters will be invited and encouraged to participate in the full workshop.
Publication and Dissemination: Invited authors will be acknowledged within the workshop proceedings - a publication from the National Academies Press that describes the presentations and discussions from the workshop, and the presentation materials may be included in the appendices. The workshop proceedings will be widely disseminated to inform and shape discussions on the macroeconomic implications of decarbonization policies and actions.
Contact: Please contact Katrina Hui at khui@nas.edu for any inquiries or clarification.
We look forward to your contributions in addressing the critical macroeconomic challenges associated with decarbonization and developing innovative paths forward to inform effective and equitable transition policies.