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Call for Abstracts: Fiscal Instruments for International Climate Action
We are pleased to announce that the Call for Abstracts for GCET27 is now open!
GCET27 will be hosted by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and held in central Berlin at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW).
The conference theme, Fiscal Instruments for International Climate Action, focuses on how fiscal instruments such as environmental taxes, carbon pricing, subsidy reform, and related market-based approaches can mobilize resources and shape incentives for an effective and fair transition consistent with the Paris goals.
Topic Areas
Include (but are not limited to):
- International climate finance and fiscal policy instruments for mitigation and adaptation
- Carbon pricing, effective carbon rates, emissions trading, and interactions with the broader tax system
- Climate clubs, and international cooperation on pricing, minimum standards, and revenue use
- Tax coalition and coordination mechanisms for raising funds for global public goods (e.g., international aviation taxes, maritime shipping taxes, corporate income taxes)
- Carbon border adjustment, trade exposure, leakage, and international policy coordination
- Subsidy reform, green fiscal reform, and revenue recycling, including distributional impacts and acceptability
- Climate policy in developing and emerging economies, including tax reform, administration, and political economy
- Sectoral instruments, including international aviation and maritime shipping, fuels, and transport taxation
- Legal and institutional dimensions, including international tax rules, environmental law, and governance
- Just transition design, compensation mechanisms, and the social incidence of environmental taxes
- Evaluation, modelling, empirical evidence, and policy learning across countries
Submission Guidelines
Please submit your abstract here: https://eveeno.com/gcet27_abstracts
- Maximum abstract length of 800 words
- Include a short biographical note about the presenting author, maximum of 150 words
Important Dates
- Abstract submissions open from February 18 to April 15, 2026
- Notification of decisions: May 20, 2026
- Presenters registration deadline: August 15, 2026
Please find more information about the conference on our website at www.gcet27.de. If you have any questions, please contact the GCET27 Organizing Committee at gcet27@pik-potsdam.de.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Berlin!
With warm regards,
Janet E. Milne, Vermont Law School
Sent on behalf of:
Professor Jan Steckel, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, GCET27 Chair
Professor Matthias Kalkuhl. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, GCET27 Co-Chair
GCET International Steering Committee:
Mikael Skou Andersen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Hope Ashiabor, University of New South Wales, Australia
Janet E. Milne, Vermont Law School, USA