Research Cluster Climate Policy and Politics

The Research Cluster analyses Germany’s climate diplomacy, the climate policy of the European Union, the processes under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and emerging multilateral fora and initiatives such as climate clubs or Just Energy Transition Partnerships.

Projects

The aim of the ASMASYS II project is to develop and assess marine CO₂ removal (mCDR) scenarios. Particular attention will be paid to assessing the future political feasibility of such scenarios.
The project analyses current developments and challenges in international climate cooperation as well as their implications, options and priorities for German and EU climate diplomacy
Removing CO2 from the atmosphere (Carbon Dioxide Removal, CDR) is essential to achieving greenhouse gas neutrality in Germany, Europe and globally. A wide range of terrestrial, geological, material-based and marine CDR approaches have been proposed, and the scientific understanding of each method varies greatly.
UPTAKE aims to facilitate the sustainable upscaling of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods by developing a set of robust strategies through technical, theoretical, and practical analysis accompanied by interactive dialogue within a CDR stakeholder forum.
The research project accompanies the German government’s “climate foreign policy” strategy from its inception to its implementation.
The »State of Carbon Dioxide Removal« report is a global, independent scientific assessment of carbon dioxide removal research, development, demonstration, deployment, perceptions, scenarios and policymaking.

Marine CO₂-Removal: Scenarios and Governance (ASMASYS II)

The aim of the ASMASYS II project is to develop and assess marine CO₂ removal (mCDR) scenarios. Particular attention will be paid to assessing the future political feasibility of such scenarios.
German climate diplomacy in the context of the European Green Deal

The project analyses current developments and challenges in international climate cooperation as well as their implications, options and priorities for German and EU climate diplomacy
Governance of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDRSynTra)

Removing CO2 from the atmosphere (Carbon Dioxide Removal, CDR) is essential to achieving greenhouse gas neutrality in Germany, Europe and globally. A wide range of terrestrial, geological, material-based and marine CDR approaches have been proposed, and the scientific understanding of each method varies greatly.
Upscaling of Carbon Dioxide Removal (UPTAKE)

UPTAKE aims to facilitate the sustainable upscaling of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods by developing a set of robust strategies through technical, theoretical, and practical analysis accompanied by interactive dialogue within a CDR stakeholder forum.
International Climate Policy and Multilevel Governance (Ariadne)

The research project accompanies the German government’s “climate foreign policy” strategy from its inception to its implementation.
State of CDR Report

The »State of Carbon Dioxide Removal« report is a global, independent scientific assessment of carbon dioxide removal research, development, demonstration, deployment, perceptions, scenarios and policymaking.

External publications

- Felix Schenuit
European Climate Policy After the Elections: Implementation Challenges and the Next Phase

in: Development and Peace Foundation, Global Governance Spotlight 4/2024, November 2024, 4 pages
- William F. Lamb
- Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
- Giacomo Grassi et al.
- Oliver Geden
Countries need to provide clarity on the role of carbon dioxide removal in their climate pledges

in: Environmental Research Letters, Vol. 19, November 2024

doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ad91c7
- Mark Preston
- Felix Schenuit
Broadening the carbon removal debate beyond the ETS

The role of carbon dioxide and its possible integration in the ETS is emerging as a key, but challenging, consideration. We must tread carefully, say Mark Preston and Felix Schenuit in Euractiv.

in: Euractiv, 07.11.2024
- Johannes Pfeiffer
- Berit Erlach
- Manfred Fischedick et al.
- Oliver Geden
An Integrated Approach to Carbon Management: Requirements of an Overall Strategy Combining CCS, CCU and CDR

Discussion Paper of the Academies’ Project “Energy Systems of the Future”, September 2024, 48 Pages
- Mario Ragwitz
- Anke Weidlich
- Dirk Biermann et al.
- Oliver Geden
Towards a Climate-neutral Germany. Policy Options for the Technological Transition, Reducing Consumption and Carbon Management

Academies’ Project “Energy Systems of the Future”, September 2024, 118 pages
- Josh Burke
- Felix Schenuit
Conditional fungibility: sequencing permanent removals into emissions trading systems

in: Environmental Research Letters, Volume 19, Number 11, 2024

doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ad796b

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