The main objective of CHANCE is to contribute to knowledge of distributional analysis of Climate Protection Measures. The distributional analysis that I have developed in the context of CHANCE provides relevant information on the social impacts of the EU Green deal.
CHANCE model is, a multiregional, multi-sectoral General Equilibrium Model that includes a large information of the European households. Therefore, CHANCE is a model designed to analyse the socioeconomic and distributional impacts of public policies that directly affect households and consumers, both economic, energy, environmental or fiscal. CHANCE is also the starting point for a more ambitious long-term project pursuing my personal mission, that is, to gather the tools and databases necessary to provide policy makers around the world with relevant and accessible information on the global distributional implications of the transition to a low carbon economy and promote my future career as an independent researcher.
The work I have done on European microdata can be used to evaluate the dimension of the energy poverty in Europe and to developed horizontal inequality analysis. I have started to explore the role of gender on the distributional analysis and on the energy poverty.
Finally, at a national level, my work is related with the Spanish policy context, since we analyse the distributional impacts of relevant policies, such as the financing of renewables or the environmental fiscal reform. On the fiscal reform, our results confirm that raising the diesel tax without offsets would have slightly regressive effects and that rural and middle-income households would bear the brunt of the increase. However, the effects become progressive when the co-designed offsetting schemes are implemented. These findings may help decision-makers in achieving a just, acceptable, and politically viable energy transition. I would like to highlight that this research has been recently cited on the expert report organized by the Spanish Financing Ministry.
