2026 Energy and Climate Economics and Business Days
Following the successful 2025 event, the Centre of Energy Business and Economics Research (CEnBER) of the University of Groningen and the University of Groningen Business School (UGBS) are pleased to announce the 2026 Energy and Climate Economics and Business Days on 24 and 25 March 2026.
Leading experts, interested practitioners, PhD candidates, alumni of both the UG's Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) and UGBS, and researchers at all career levels are invited to present and discuss innovative research on energy transition and climate change in an economics or business context.
Call for abstracts and proposals
We invite submissions of extended abstracts (or full papers) of papers studying energy and climate in an economics or business context, broadly defined. Extended abstracts should have a word count of 500 or more. We encourage submissions from all methodological backgrounds (theoretical, empirical, applied, numerical, experimental and behavioral research). Authors at all levels of seniority are invited to submit. Submissions by PhD students and postdocs are especially welcomed.
We also encourage proposals for a panel discussion on energy and climate policy (in English or Dutch).
Submissions
The deadline for submissions is January 12, 2026. Submitters will be notified of acceptance by end-January.
The form to submit an abstract, proposal, or full paper will follow soon.
Conference program and registration
You can find more details about the conference below, click on each title to read more.
The registration form for the conference will follow in January 2026, the registration deadline is February 27, 2026.
Conference Program
The conference starts on Tuesday afternoon, March 24, and ends Wednesday evening, March 25. A conference dinner is planner for March 24. The academic conference will consist of a combination of parallel and plenary sessions (keynotes). In between and after academic sessions, there will be plenty of time for networking.
Keynotes
There will be two keynote lectures, one of which will be given by Professor Richard Tol from the University of Sussex (the other speaker will be announced asap).
Venue
Conference sessions will take place at the Faculty of Economics and Business, Duisenberg Building at the University of Groningen’s Zernike Campus.
Costs
Registration fee for both days, including drinks, lunch, and dinner, is 100 euros. The fee for alumni of Succesvolle Energietransitie met Multidisciplinaire Aanpak and the Executive MBA Energy Transition is 50 euros.
Scientic Committee
The scientific committee in charge of organizing the sessions and reviewing submissions is composed of faculty members from the University of Groningen Faculty of Economics and Business.
Organization Team
The conference is organized by the Centre of Energy Business and Economics Research (CEnBER) of the University of Groningen together with the University of Groningen Business School (UGBS). The organizing committee consists of Prof. Machiel Mulder and dr. Roweno J.R.K. Heijmans from the UG's Faculty of Economics and Business, supported by Selma Bakker from the University of Groningen Business School. For practical questions, you may reach out to Selma Bakker (s.m.bakker@rug.nl).
This page will be frequently updated with information about the program and speakers.