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The interplay between decarbonization strategies and the macroeconomy plays a crucial role in informing equitable and effective public policy. The National Academies will convene a workshop to explore the macroeconomic and socioeconomic implications of decarbonization strategies, and the role of the macroeconomy in achieving policy goals.
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·2025
Decarbonization brings both risks and opportunities to the macroeconomy. Achieving net-zero emissions by mid-century may involve sweeping changes in technologies, policies, and systems, and the ways in which these changes are implemented may have profound impacts on communities, industries, economie...
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Description
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will convene an ad hoc planning committee to organize a hybrid workshop to examine the relationship between decarbonization strategies and the macroeconomy. This workshop is the third in a series of workshops organized by the Roundtable on Macroeconomics and Climate-related Risks and Opportunities. The goal of this workshop is to distill key insights from scientific and economic research efforts that may inform equitable and effective public policy within the broader macroeconomic landscape. Specifically, this workshop will explore climate change mitigation pathways and transitions to decarbonization, their macroeconomic and socioeconomic implications, and, in turn, the role of the macroeconomy in achieving decarbonization policy goals. The workshop may include discussions on:
- Potential economic barriers that may affect decarbonization—including those stemming from finance, labor, and supply chains—and the role of policy in exacerbating or ameliorating those barriers.
- Methodologies for incorporating insights from the energy transition and energy systems modeling into macroeconomic models used for policy design.
- Local and regional distributional effects in the United States of decarbonization strategies on certain geographic, underserved, and vulnerable populations.
- The interplay among the U.S. economy, other nation’s energy transitions, and the global economy in the context of the global energy transition.
A proceedings of the workshop that describes the presentations and discussions will be produced by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.
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Committee
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Katrina L. Hui
Staff Officer
Sponsors
Bezos Earth Fund
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Science Foundation
Wallace Global Fund
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Staff
Katrina Hui
Lead
Bridget Ann McGovern
Lindsay Moller
Brent Heard
Anne Manville
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Center for Health, People, and Places
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Policy and Global Affairs
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
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Division on Earth and Life Studies
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Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
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Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy
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Board on Energy and Environmental Systems
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Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
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Board on Environmental Change and Society
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Earth Systems and Resources Program Area
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