Ottmar Edenhofer

Georg Ottmar Edenhofer ( born July 8, 1961 in Gangkofen, Lower Bavaria ) is a German economist and deals with climate and energy economic issues. He is currently Professor of the Economics of Climate Change at the Technical University of Berlin, Chair of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC ), deputy director and chief economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK ), director of " Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change " (MCC ). He is a member of the topic group climate, energy and the environment of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg.

Life

Ottmar Edenhofer studied in Munich, where he took at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University in 1987 his degree in Economics ( honors ) from. Until 1991, he completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy at the Munich School of Philosophy (summa cum laude). During his studies, he founded a company in the public health and managed from 1991 to 1993, a humanitarian aid organization in Croatia and Bosnia. From 1994 to 2000 he worked as a research assistant at the Technical University of Darmstadt and wrote there in 1999 his PhD in economics (summa cum laude).

Activities

Since 2007, Ottmar Edenhofer, deputy director and chief economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ( PIK), where he heads the present research area III ( " Sustainable Solutions "). Together with the staff of the research department, he formulated the " global deal " on climate protection and developed the concept for the transatlantic carbon market. At PIK he also supervised doctoral students and students from different fields and directs and coordinates several research projects funded by external funding. In addition to contributions in scientific journals such as Science, Nature Climate Change, Climatic Change Energy Journal, Energy Economics and Energy Policy Ottmar Edenhofer was involved in a number of other publications, eg together with Nick Stern, " The Economics of Climate Change in China: Towards a Low Carbon Economy " or the report " Global, but accessible. Combat climate change, enabling development ". Under his leadership, the IPCC Special Report was to renewable energy and climate change mitigation ( Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation, SRREN ).

Since August 2008, Ottmar Edenhofer is professor ( joint appointment with the Michael Otto Foundation for Environmental Protection at the Technical University of Berlin ) for the economics of climate change. In early September of the same year he was elected a chairman of the IPCC, where he heads along with Youba Sokona and Ramón Pichs Madruga for the next seven years, the Working Group III ( " Mitigation of Climate Change" ). He is a director of the company founded in 2012 " Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change " (MCC ) and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich, member of the theme group "Climate, Energy and Environment" of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina Halle ( Saale) and a member of the Advisory Board " Green Growth Knowledge Platform ," the World Bank.

Work in the public debate on climate change

In addition to his research and teaching activities Ottmar Edenhofer is involved in the public and political climate debate in Germany and the EU. Until September 2009, he also advised Foreign Minister and Vice - Chancellor Frank -Walter Steinmeier in issues of global climate policy.

In 2010, he joined as a co-chair of the working group publicly to ensure that the management and procedures of the IPCC to be reformed. In an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, he demanded that an independent body of experts should examine the IPCC. This demand was broad support within the IPCC, which meant that the chairman of the IPCC R. Pachauri and the UN Secretary-General together the Interacedemy Council (IAC ) commissioned to examine the IPCC. This report led the reform process for the IPCC, which was successfully completed in 2012.

In this context, he expressed himself in 2010 and 2011 also on the relationship between politics and science, in which he called for a pragmatic model of scientific policy advice. His proposals are met with IPCC authors for approval.

In the German energy turnaround he moved in favor of abandoning nuclear energy position. Even before Fukushima, he called for an energy revolution; the extension of maturities of nuclear power plants would bring to the operators of the power plants additional profits, but the crucial issues of energy policy remained unresolved.

With the staff of the PIK he has in the publication " Global but fair " characterizes realistic solutions, which include both the prevention of climate change and adaptation to inevitable climate change. In this book, the climate problem have also been widely discussed as a problem of international justice. Building on this, a " Global Deal " for the developed climate and development policy.

He has led several international model comparison studies in which the costs and strategies of avoiding emissions were discussed in detail. These approaches also have input in the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy and the prevention of climate change as found in the international scientific debate.

Research priorities

Ottmar Edenhofer is concerned with the impact of technological change on the costs and strategies of climate change and the design of policy instruments in the context of climate and energy policy. Other research focuses on the economics of climate stabilization, social cost- benefit analysis, sustainability theory, the theory of economic growth, environmental economics, welfare theory and intertemporal equilibrium theory.

Memberships

  • Since 2007: Member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg
  • Since 2008: Member of the Society for Social Policy, Committee on Environment and Resource Economics
  • Since 2009: Member of the " International Association of Energy Economics " ( IAEE )
  • Since 2009: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich
  • Since 2009: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the " EUREF Institute " in Berlin
  • Since 2010: member of the theme group "Climate, Energy & Environment" of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Since 2010: member of the promoter group climate / energy of the Research Alliance
  • Since 2012: Member of the " Advisory Committee of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform" ( joint initiative of the Global Green Growth Institute, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP ) and the World Bank)

Scientific Awards

  • August 2005: Fellow of the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst

Publications

  • List of publications from Ottmar Edenhofer on www.pik -potsdam.de
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