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Brigitte Knopf (born August 28, 1973 in Bonn ) is a climate scientist . She has been Secretary General of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change since February 2015 and a member of the Expert Council on Climate Issues since August 2020 .

Life

Knopf has a doctorate in physics .

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Button last deals u. a. with the implementation of the Paris Agreement . She is also concerned with CO ₂ pricing and how this can serve to protect the climate and finance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

In the public debate about ways out of the climate crisis , Knopf advocates pricing for CO ₂ emissions . She calls for a sustainable financial reform in Germany and on an international level: "In addition to the reduction of fossil subsidies, such a reform must include an effective CO ₂ price." She argues that the income from the CO ₂ price is used to lower other taxes could become.

Knopf was one of the authors of the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC (2014). She was also one of the authors of the Emissions Gap Report 2018.

Publications (selection)

• Ottmar Edenhofer , Brigitte Knopf et al .: The economics of low stabilization: model comparison of mitigation strategies and costs. In: The Energy Journal. 2010, pp. 11-48, https://www.jstor.org/stable/41323490
• Brigitte Knopf and Jiang Kejun : Germany and China take the lead. In: Science . Volume 358, No. 6363, 2017, doi : 10.1126 / science.aar2525
• Sabine Fuss , Brigitte Knopf et al .: A Framework for Assessing the Performance of Cap-and-Trade Systems: Insights from the European Union Emissions Trading System. In: Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. Volume 12, No. 2, 2018, pp. 220–241, doi : 10.1093 / reep / rey010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brigitte Knopf's curriculum vitae. (PDF) Retrieved January 19, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} button, Brigitte. Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change , accessed January 19, 2019 . 
3. ^ Maria Mast: Climate change: If climate researchers would rule the world. Zeit Online , December 11, 2018, accessed January 19, 2019 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Countries must triple efforts for two-degree target. FAZ , November 27, 2018, accessed on January 19, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Emissions Gap Report 2018. United Nations Environment Program , November 27, 2018, accessed on January 19, 2019 .