Socially Just Climate Action: Study has an Effect on Romanian Policy

Topics: Climate Policy Emissions Trading System (ETS) Energy Efficiency Energy Poverty

Countries: Bulgaria Germany Hungary Portugal Romania

The EUKI project "Distributing the Impacts of Carbon Pricing in Central and Eastern Europe" provided concrete data on social impacts for the first time in Romania. The results helped to overcome reservations about climate targets and were directly incorporated into policy: experts from the project presented their findings in parliament. The knowledge gathered was later incorporated into Romania's National Social Climate Plan (NSCP), a key basis for the allocation of funds from the Social Climate Fund (SCF) of the European Union. This made an important contribution to the just implementation of the ETS2 emissions trading System for low-income households. With the system the EU intends to make heating and refuelling with fossil fuels more expensive from 2027 onwards.