Distributional effects of expected climate mitigation policies in Russia

Climate policies have complex and long-lasting consequences. An important shortcoming of recent climate policy developments is that they are weak in assessing the impacts on the economic agents and on their ability to formally or informally consolidate using various formal and informal1 institutions to promote (or resist) these policies.

This policy paper is the first attempt to scope in the distributional effects of a limited list of policies required to achieve carbon neutrality and to assess these effects for Russia.