Project description
Identifying barriers to corporate climate investment
Achieving greenhouse gas neutrality in Europe requires significant business investment. In Germany, about EUR 120 billion per year is needed to meet the 2045 climate goals, yet actual investment is less than half that amount. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the FIN4ZERO project will identify the barriers to climate investment faced by firms and develop effective policies to address them. Using computer-based economic modelling, it will explore financial barriers and misconceptions that hinder investment. By creating a detailed model of various firms and testing the effectiveness of policies, this research aims to enhance knowledge of climate investment barriers and strengthen the researcher’s qualifications as a quantitative macroeconomist specialising in environmental economics for academic positions.
Objective
The transformation of European economies towards greenhouse gas neutrality (net-zero transition) will require active engagement from enterprises and companies. Firms will need to contribute a substantial share of the investment required for the green transition but currently fail to sufficiently engage. In Germany, for example, a yearly amount of 120 billion Euros of firm investment are needed to achieve the climate goals for 2045 - with actual investment meeting less than half of that in 2021. While increasingly recognized as a fundamental hurdle for reaching the EU’s climate goals, this problem is still underrepresented in academic research. This project seeks, first, to understand barriers to firms’ climate investment and their interactions and, second, to determine the best policies to remove these barriers. The methodological approach concentrates on computer-based modelling of the economy. The early climate-economy models focused on CO2 pricing as main policy instruments. A second line of research focused on developing green technologies concentrating on green innovation subsidies. This project is part of a newly emerging strand focusing on barriers for climate investment at the firm level. This project contributes to this state-of-the-art research agenda by (i) identifying different barriers to investment and their interactions in the data (concentrating on financial barriers and biased beliefs), (ii) building an economic computer-based model which satisfies the empirical findings and represents the variety of firms in great detail and (iii) performing computer-based experiments to identify the best policies for removing barriers to firms’ climate investment. For the researcher, this project will strengthen the researcher’s academic foundation as a quantitative macroeconomist with an environmental economics specialization. Like this, it substantially contributes to the successful application for assistant professor positions on the academic job market.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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5037 AB Tilburg
Netherlands
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