Bridging the policy gap to materialize deep decarbonization

There is a wide agreement that the current national and European environmental policy framework is not enough to spur much-needed technological responses, and that additional governmental support is needed to help Swedish industry achieve its deep decarbonization goals. Bridging the policy gap requires taking stock of the effects of current policies, evaluating their performance and improving their design, and assessing complementary policies that can enhance their effects. This is the aim of this research project: combining economic modelling, policy evaluation and simulations to identify the policy changes that are needed to materialize deep decarbonization with a special emphasis on the “harder-to-abate” sectors.