SUPSCF

The Social Climate Fund, established by the Social Climate Fund Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2023/955), aims to support vulnerable households, micro-enterprises and transport users impacted by the inclusion of greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and road transport within the scope of the EU Emissions Trading System (Directive 2003/87/EC). Each member state is required to develop a Social Climate Plan, proposing a coherent set of measures and investments, which will serve as a basis for the allocation of funding. Within this service contract, the researchers are tasked to develop a guidance note to support the member states with this requirement. To this end, the project team develops a set of criteria to define good practice approaches for cost-effective measures and investments that may be included by member states in their plans in line with article 6(4) of the regulation mentioned above. Based on a comprehensive analysis of grey and scientific literature, the project team then identifies a list of good practice policies or programmes for achieving the objectives defined in the regulation and prepares detailed descriptions of selected cases with regard to the various criteria. In addition, the researchers develop practical advice on how to design and implement the measures and investments in a cost-effective way, and how to avoid pitfalls.