Beyond climate change, economies are increasingly affected by broader environmental change, often human-driven—such as air and water pollution, biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation, land-use change, and resource scarcity—that can interact with climate change, amplify physical risks, and have material consequences for macroeconomic performance, fiscal positions, financial stability, and international capital flows.
We seek innovative empirical and conceptual research on the macroeconomics of climate and environmental change, including both transition and mitigation policies (e.g., carbon pricing, ETS, CBAM, green investment and subsidies, public investment, regulation) and the macroeconomic implications of physical and nature-related risks. The conference aims to bring together senior and early-career scholars working at the intersection of climate and environmental change, macroeconomics, public finance, monetary policy, and international capital flows both in the Global North and the Global South. Contributions should provide rigorous and policy relevant analysis of the macroeconomic, fiscal and financial implications of climate change and the role of macroeconomic policies in supporting the green transition.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• The impact of climate and environmental change and mitigation policies on macrofinancial stability and public finances
• Monetary, fiscal and financial policy responses to climate and environmental change and transition risk
• The macroeconomic modelling of the green transition
• The impact of climate and environmental change, and mitigation policies, on exchange rates and capital flows
• Gender and other dimensions of inequality of green macroeconomic modelling and policies
• The interactions between environmental change, macroeconomic policies and environmental justice
The programme will feature paper presentations followed by in depth discussions as well as panel discussions. Some travel support will be available for PhD students and young scholars.
Please submit your full papers on the application platform by 30 September 2026 at the following link: The Macroeconomics of Climate and Environmental Change - PAPER SUBMISSION.
Keynote speakers
• Lucrezia Reichlin, London Business School
• Mar Reguant, Barcelona School of Economics and ICREA IAE-CSIC
Organising committee
• Chiara Colesanti Senni, University of Zurich and sustainable macro
• Yannis Dafermos, SOAS University of London and sustainable macro
• Stéphane Dees, Banque de France
• Alain Naef, ESSEC Business School and sustainable macro
• Caterina Seghini, Banque de France
• Ulrich Volz, SOAS University of London, CEPR and sustainable macro
Scientific committee
• Stéphane Dees, Banque de France
• Elise Gourier, ESSEC Business School
• Elise Kremer, Banque de France
• Gregory Levieuge, Banque de France
• Camille Macaire, Banque de France
• Jean-Guillaume Sahuc, Banque de France
• Caterina Seghini, Banque de France
• Gauthier Vermandel, Ecole Polytechnique
• Ulrich Volz, SOAS University of London, CEPR and sustainable macro
• Adam George, SOAS University of London
