Enhancing Public Acceptability of Carbon Pricing in Belgium

The Belgian Climate Centre is organising the first seminar of the Climate Cookies & Coffee series:

The path of least resistance? Enhancing public acceptability of carbon pricing policies in Belgium

Presenter: Jeroen Barrez (HIVA - KU Leuven)

Biography: Jeroen Barrez holds a master’s degree in Contemporary History (2016), Economic Policy (2017) and Economics (2024) at KU Leuven. Currently, he is working as a PhD candidate within the Climate and Sustainable Development research group at HIVA, KU Leuven. His PhD research focuses on the factors influencing public acceptability of carbon pricing in Belgium, both among the general population and across subgroups. Specifically, he explores how revenue use and information provision might affect public acceptability. His PhD project is embedded in the E4BEL project, which investigates trade-offs in public acceptability, equity, economic and environmental performance of carbon pricing policies. He also works on related topics such as environmental taxation and Just transition. Previously,…