Christian Flachsland

Christian Flachsland is a German sustainability scientist . He was the first Junior Professor for Climate and Energy Governance and is now Professor of Sustainability at the Hertie School and head of the research group Governance at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC).

Life

Flachsland worked from 2006 to 2011 in the “Policy Instruments Modeling” group at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research . At the MCC he was one of the heads of the Assessments and Scientific Policy Advice working group .

Act

Flachsland research deals with the political economy of climate, energy and sustainability policy, in particular the institutional analysis of policies in multilevel systems and temporal dynamics of policy paths . He is co-author of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and has worked as an expert on the Advisory Council to assess macroeconomic developments .

Publications (selection)

• Ottmar Edenhofer , Michael Jakob , Felix Creutzig , Christian Flachsland, Sabine Fuss , Martin Kowarsch, Kai Lessmann, Linus Mattauch, Jan Siegmeier & Jan Christoph Steckel (2015). Closing the emission price gap. Global Environmental Change, 31, 132-143.
• Christian Flachsland, Robert Marschinski & Ottmar Edenhofer (2009). To link or not to link: benefits and disadvantages of linking cap-and-trade systems. Climate Policy, 9 (4), 358-372.
• Christian Flachsland, Robert Marschinski & Ottmar Edenhofer (2009). Global trading versus linking: Architectures for international emissions trading. Energy Policy, 37 (5), 1637-1647.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Two MCC scientists appointed professors
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} https://www.hertie-school.org/de/forschung/professoren/profil/person/flachsland/
3. ↑ https://www.pik-potsdam.de/members/edenh/flachs/christian-flachsland-homepage-1?searchterm=Flachsland