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Dear colleagues, Please find attached an invitation to a workshop on UK household CO2 emissions and fairness of climate change policies. The workshop will take place on 5 July, at the Royal Statistical Society, London. The workshop will provide an opportunity to discuss findings of our ESRC project "Who emits most?" as well as research findings from projects at the University of Essex, the Centre for Sustainable Energy and an ESRC-funded project at the London School of Economics. To register please email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>; places are limited. Please also forward to interested colleagues and students. Many thanks Nick Bardsley Programme Climate scientists present ever more stark diagnoses of planetary imbalance, increasing calls for emissions reduction policies. A key social research question is whether those policies will hit poorer households harder, or whether they can be designed to soften the impact on the disadvantaged. The workshop explores this question and related analytical issues. It focusses on the use of national scale consumption surveys to explore the distribution of CO2 emissions and effects of policies. Are the data up to the task? Which household characteristics are related to high emissions? Who are likely winners and losers from different policies? 10.15 Registration and coffee 10.30 Welcome and introduction Part 1: Are the data up to the task? Estimating CO2 emissions from expenditure data 10.40 Using the Living Cost and Food Survey to estimate household CO2 emissions - Milena Büchs, University of Southampton 11.00 Practices by proxy: climate, consumption and water - Ben Anderson, University of Essex 11.20 Discussion 11.40 Comfort break Part 2: The distribution of household CO2 emissions 11.50 Household characteristics and CO2 emissions - who emits most? - Sylke V. Schnepf, University of Southampton 12.10 Carbon mitigation policies, distributional dilemmas and social policies - Ian Gough, London School of Economics 12.30 Discussion 1.00 Lunch Part 3: Can climate policies be fair? 2.00 Distributional impacts of climate change mitigation policies - comparing different areas of emissions - Nicholas Bardsley, University of Reading 2.20 Using the LCF to model the distributional impacts of UK climate change policy - Ian Preston, Centre for Sustainable Energy 2.40 Discussion and conclusions 3.00 Networking and coffee/tea/cakes Venue: Royal Statistical Society, Errol Street 12, London EC1Y 8LX Nicholas Bardsley Lecturer in Climate Change Economics School of Agriculture, Policy and Development University of Reading RG6 6AR 0118 378 4545 NEW: MSc in Climate Change and Development<http://www.reading.ac.uk/web/FILES/apd/MScCCDwebpdf.pdf>