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Overview of the research and motivation. The INNOPATHS project aims to provide a fully-fledged assessment of the social and distributional implications of ambitious European climate policies and ways of alleviating adverse social effects. In this context, the deliverable D4.2 aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the effects of EU climate policies on the incomes, activity and consumption patterns of firms and households and a detailed evaluation of potential policy instruments to minimize the adverse effects on vulnerable low-income households and trade-exposed industries. This deliverable presents a series of research papers which provide insights on the social and distributional impacts of energy and climate policies towards the transformation of the European Union (EU) economy and society in line with the EU Green Deal and the long-term strategy for climate neutrality by mid-century. The analysis considers both medium- and long-term developments that need to take place to pave the way towards the EU economy restructuring. In addition, the analysis explores the socio-economic impacts and of past and current climate policies and evaluates the historical preferences of various income classes across EU countries. Finally, the research papers present new methodological improvements developed in task 4.2, both related to advanced econometric techniques as well as beyond the state-of-the-art modelling enhancements in the macro-economic GEM-E3-FIT model which allow an improved representation of the social and distributional impacts of climate policies across income classes in EU countries. Within the research activities of this task, the participating teams developed new modelling capabilities in the General Equilibrium framework of GEM-E3-FIT in order to improve the representation of social and distributional impacts of policies in the income and consumption patterns of various income classes. This was complemented with a detailed review of the state-of-the-art in modelling frameworks depicting distributional impacts for interdisciplinary policy analysis, focusing mostly on macro-economic general equilibrium models. In addition, advanced econometric and statistical methods are used by University College London (UCL) to estimate different time preferences across income classes and countries. As the COVID-19 pandemic has had, and is having, tremendous impacts on European economies and society, Sciences-PO (SPO) assessed the distributional impacts of a post-pandemic green fiscal stimulus, focusing...
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