Our Network

Since inception in 2006, Climate Strategies has worked with governments and researchers across Europe, the US and Asia on the development of national and international policy. We have published reports and projects in collaboration with over 95 research institutions and more than 175 researchers.

Our Members

Dr. Karsten Neuhoff

Karsten Neuhoff is a Research Director at the German Institute for Economics Research (DIW Berlin) and Director of the Berlin office of the global network Climate Policy Initiative. He studied in Freiburg and Granada and graduated in 1999 with a Masters in Physics from the University of Heidelberg (Germany), and in 2000 with a Master in Economics from The London School of Economics (UK). He received a PhD from the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, in 2003 on the topic of market power in networks, supervised by Professor David Newbery.

From 2003 to 2009 he was senior researcher at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, and visiting researcher at MIT, leading projects on the future of the power system, renewable integration and technology policy. With the research network Climate Strategies he coordinated European and international projects on the implementation of the European Emissions Trading Scheme and North-South Climate Cooperation. He has published 71 articles in academic journals and reviewed working papers, was member of the Auctioning Working Group and Renewables Review Panel of UK the government and presented at several occasions to committees and working groups of the European Parliament and European Commission.

http://climatepolicyinitiative.org/experts

Climate Strategies’ research projects and publications by Dr Karsten Neuhoff:

Carbon Pricing for Low Carbon Investment

Differentiation and dynamics of competitiveness impacts

EU Emissions Trading Scheme

International support for domestic action

International Support for Domestic Climate Policies

Border Adjustments

Dr. Susanne Droege

Susanne Droege is Head of the Global Issues Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin. She studied economics in Berlin, Warwick (UK), and Kiel (Germany). She was a research assistant at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management (1996-1999) and at the German Institute for Economic Research (1999-2006). She joined the SWP in 2006.

Susanne Droege has specialised in energy, climate and international economics and has a long-standing work experience on trade and environment. Recent research focuses on the EU’s unilateral approach to emissions trading, and international climate negotiations. Ms Droege is a project leader in the Climate Strategies network since 2008 working on carbon leakage and competitiveness effects from carbon pricing.

http://www.swp-berlin.org/en/scientist-detail/profile/susanne-droege.html

Climate Strategies’ research projects and publications by Susanne Droege: International Industry Competitiveness, Carbon Leakage, and Approaches to Carbon Pricing
Tackling Leakage in a world of unequal carbon prices

Peter Wooders

Peter Wooders is IISD's Senior Economist for Climate Change, Energy and Trade. Based in Geneva, he has 20 years’ experience across the energy sector, with a particular specialization in electricity generation. Peter’s skills include the ability to analyze complex problems: he has developed a range of computer models including a suite of carbon market simulations covering both the EU and Kyoto systems.

Peter currently contributes to various IISD’s programmes, including Trade & Climate Change, notably Border Carbon Adjustment and the GHG impacts of possible Environmental Goods & Services agreements; Global Subsidies Initiative (fossil fuels and bio-fuels); Post-2012 Architecture of GHG Agreements; Carbon Markets and Climate Change Adaptation.

Initially trained as an engineer, Peter first worked in technology research with British Gas. He then spent 15 years as an Energy & Environment consultant, working on issues from energy efficiency in Hungary to the cost-benefit analysis of clean air policies in Egypt to the economics of nuclear waste disposition in the UK. His clients have included the World Bank, EBRD, various European Commission departments and a wide range of private sector companies.

Climate Strategies’ research projects and publications by Peter Wooders:

Sectoral Approaches

Axel Michaelowa

Axel Michaelowa is researcher on international climate policy at the University of Zurich and senior founding partner of the consultancy Perspectives. Axel has been working on international climate policy for the last 16 years. Before moving to Zurich in 2006, he was head of the research group "International climate policy" at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics. Axel is a member of the CDM Executive Board's Registration and Issuance Team and has contributed to the development of five approved CDM baseline methodologies. He is a lead author in both the 5th and 4th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and has published over 100 articles, studies and book contributions on the Kyoto Mechanisms. In over 20 developing countries, Axel has engaged in CDM institution building.

http://www.ipz.uzh.ch/institut/mitarbeitende/staff/amichaelowa_en.html

Climate Strategies’ research projects and publications by Axel Michaelowa:

The Clean Development Mechanism in the post-2012 Climate Change Regime

Linking public finance and market mechanisms in the post-2012 climate regime

Benito Müller

Dr Müller is currently Director (Energy & Environment) at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, which he joined in February 1996, Managing Director of Oxford Climate Policy (a not-for-profit company aimed at capacity building for developing country climate change negotiators), and Director of the European Capacity Building Initiative (ecbi), an international initiative for sustained capacity building in support of international climate change negotiations. Dr Müller is a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford and a member of the Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University. He is Senior Research Associate of Queen Elizabeth House the University’s International Development Centre, and an Associate of its Smith School for Enterprise and Environment. Dr Müller received his doctorate (D.Phil.) in Philosophy from the University of Oxford specialising in Philosophy of Language and of Science and was formerly a Research Fellow at Wolfson College and a Lecturer in Logic at the Queen's College, Oxford. He has a Diploma in Mathematics from the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland.

Climate Strategies’ research projects and publications by Benito Müller: The Clean Development Mechanism in the post-2012 Climate Change Regime

For a list of publications see www.OxfordClimatePolicy.org

Ambuj Sagar

Ambuj Sagar is the Vipula and Mahesh Chaturvedi Professor of Policy Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Ambuj's interests lie in science & technology policy, environmental policy, and development policy, with a particular focus on the interactions between technology and society. While his current research focuses mainly on energy innovation and climate policy, he also studies, more broadly, various facets of technology innovation, environmental policy and politics, and engineering education and research.

Ambuj’s recent papers have dealt with climate and energy innovation policy and strategies (in areas such as biofuels, coal-power, and automobiles), climate change policy, and capacity development for the environment. He is one of the developers of the concept of Climate Innovation Centers that became part of the Indian Government’s proposals in the global climate negotiation. He also helped initiate and design the recently-launched Indian National Improved Biomass Coosktove Initiative that aims to deliver clean-burning and efficient cookstoves to India’s poor. He has worked with various agencies of the Indian Government, with numerous international organizations, as well as with other private and public-sector organizations in the US (including as a staff researcher for a major study on energy R&D for the White House). Ambuj is a member of the Indian Planning Commission’s Expert Committee on a Low-Carbon Strategy for Inclusive Growth as well as the US-India Track II Dialog on Climate and Energy.

Ambuj did his undergraduate studies in Mechanical Engineering at IIT Delhi. He subsequently received an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Polymer Science and an M.S. in Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a Senior Research Associate at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Assistant Dean for Strategic Planning at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University before joining IIT Delhi in 2008.

Climate Strategies’ research projects and publications by Ambuj Sagar: Climate Innovation Centres

Professor Thomas Brewer

Thomas L. Brewer is the U.S. Special Adviser for Climate Strategies. His research focuses on the intersections of climate change issues with international trade, technology transfer and investment issues. His publications include numerous articles in the refereed journals. Climate Policy and Energy Policy, as well as chapters in books published by the Brookings Institution, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and other leading publishers. He is the editor and author of the introduction to a symposium on the intersection of international trade issues and climate trade issues in the refereed journal The World Economy. He is completing a book on the political economy of US government, business and public responses to climate change issues. He is a Lead Author for the Fifth Assessment Review of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III, and a member of the Panel of Experts for the Environmental Assessment of the North American Free Trade Agreement. He also a Schöller Foundation Research Fellow at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany, and a periodic Visiting Business Fellow at Oxford University’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. He is an Associate Fellow of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, and an emeritus faculty member of Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

Dr. Joyashree Roy

Dr. Joyashree Roy is currently the Professor of Economics at Jadavpur University, Kolkata in India. She initiated and also coordinates the Global Change Programme at Jadavpur University (www.juglobalchangeprogram.org ) which focuses on selected aspects of Climate Change research and beyond . She Directs the SYLFF -Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (http://www.jusylffprogram.org) -Project on “Tradition, Social Change, and Sustainable Development: A Holistic Approach” at the same university. She was a Ford Foundation Post Doctoral Fellow in Environmental Economics at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California , USA.

She has been one of the two Coordinating Lead Authors of the Chapter 7 of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change -IPCC’s AR4, WGIII, , “Climate Change 2007: Mitigation of Climate Change”. IPCC is the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Winner. She is in IPCC Fifth assessment cycle as well. She has been involved in preparation of Stern Review Report, Global Energy Assessment and many other national and global efforts. She is in Steering committee of LOICZ.

In her independent research capacity she has authored books and written over sixty articles in peer reviewed leading professional journals and books.

Current research interests are: Economics of Climate Change, modeling energy demand, economy-wide modeling exercises for deriving policy implications, water quality demand modeling, water pricing, urban infrastructure development policy issues, sustainable indicator estimation, natural resource accounting, valuing environmental services, and developmental and environmental issues relevant for informal sectors, Coastal Ecosystem service evaluation.

She is interested in multidisciplinary approaches to understanding development issues. She has widely traveled to almost every continent for her extensive research collaborations and capacity building efforts in the field of Resource, energy, environment and the climate change.

Climate Strategies’ research projects and publications by Joyashree Roy:
Sectoral Approaches

Stefan P. Schleicher

Stefan P. Schleicher is Professor of Economics at the Wegener Center on Climate and Global Change at the University of Graz, Austria. He serves as a consultant to the Austrian Institute of Economic Research in Vienna.

He obtained his academic degrees from the University of Technology in Graz and the University of Vienna. He held academic positions at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, the University of Bonn, the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and Stanford University.

His research focuses on economic modeling and economic policy issues with special emphasis on sustainable structures in the context of energy and climate.

Recent research activities:

- Beyond-20 – Evaluation of more ambitious EU energy and climate targets for 2020

- EnergyTransition – The transition to low energy structures for 2012, 2020 und 2050

- NREAP-AT – National Renewables Energies Action Plan for Austria

- TranSust.Scan – FP-7 EU project for the transition to sustainable economic structures

- EU Emissions Trading Scheme – The evidence since 2005 and the agenda after 2012

Murray Ward

From 1996 to 2002 Murray led the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment’s climate change team where he managed the development of domestic climate change policy and was a leading senior negotiator in NZ delegations to international climate change meetings.

He is considered to be one of the key architects of the Kyoto Protocol framework. Murray founded Global Climate Change Consultancy (GtripleC) in 2003 to provide high-level strategic counsel to a range of international public and private sector clients. GtripleC’s focus is on the policy architecture of an enlarged and global climate change regime post-2012 – in particular as it relates to carbon markets, climate finance, LULUCF and REDDplus – and practical ‘on the ground’ capacity building that leads to investment and implementation at scale, not just more talk.

Climate Strategies’ research projects and publications by Murray Ward:

Analytic Support to Target Based Negotiations

Péter Kaderják

Mr Kaderják (1963) is the director of the Regional Centre for Energy Policy Research (REKK), and the course director of the Energy Economics postgraduate program of Corvinus University of Budapest.

Dr Péter Kaderják was President of the Hungarian Energy Office; Associate Professor in the Microeconomics Department at Budapest University of Economics; and former Chairman of the Energy Regulators Regional Association (ERRA). Mr. Kaderják was previously Chief of the Minister’s Cabinet and Secretary of the Economic Committee of the Hungarian Government.

From 1998-1999, he served as a Member of the Board of Directors of the State Privatization and Asset Holding Company. Prior to that, he was Senior Environmental Policy Advisor and member of the Policy Advisory Working Group with the Harvard Institute for International Development in Budapest. He served as coordinator for the Phare-ACE Project, Environmental Implications of Economic Transition in Hungary.

Mr. Kaderják began his career in economics as a Lecturer in the Department of Business Economics at Budapest University of Economics in 1987. He has participated in training workshops in the United States and Austria. From 1989-1990, he was a Visiting Research Assistant of economic psychology at Erasmus University. Mr. Kaderják has been a Member of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) since 1993.

Climate Strategies’ research projects and publications by Péter Kaderják:

Decarbonisation of the Power Sector

Dr Anna Korppoo

Dr Anna Korppoo is a Senior Research Fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) in Oslo. She holds an MSc on Environmental Policy from the University of Tampere, Finland, and a PhD on Energy Policy from Imperial College London on energy efficiency in Russian pulp and paper industry.

Anna has been involved in a number of Climate Strategies and other think tank projects on Russian and Eastern European climate policy as well as the Kyoto mechanisms and the surplus AAUs since 2000, and followed the UNFCCC negotiation process for a decade.

She has previously (2008-2011) worked for the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA), both as a Senior Researcher and a Programme Director. Anna has focused on publishing mainly policy-advice oriented briefing papers and studies in the series of FIIA, Climate Strategies, FNI and Chatham House.

Her current research project funded by NORKLIMA of the Norwegian Research Council focuses on Russia’s energy policies which drive Russia’s future emission trends, especially those linked to energy efficiency, as well as Russia’s role and policies in the international climate negotiations.

http://www.fni.no/cv/cv-ako.html

Recent research activities:

FIIA publications under the EU beyond 20% project

Approaching the AAU Issue with a strategic compliance reserve and optimized trading

Joint Implementation projects

A Russian Green Investment Scheme - securing environmental benefits from international emissions trading

Arild Moe

Arild Moe (b. 1955) is Cand. Polit. from the University of Oslo with political science, Russian language and public law. He is Deputy director and Senior research fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway. FNI is an independent foundation engaged in research on international environmental, energy and resource management politics. The main academic discipline represented is political science, but FNI researchers also hold degrees in law, economics, history, social anthropology and biology. The institute has a long experience in studying international climate policy. For an overview of FNI research see www.fni.no.

Arild Moe is author and co-author of several books and articles on the Russian energy sector. He has worked extensively on Russian climate politics as well and was one of the authors of the original Climate Strategies report developing the Green Investment Scheme. More recently he directed a CS project on Joint Implementation in Russia and is now involved in research on the basis for Russian positions in the international negotiations.

http://www.fni.no/staff.html