Claudia Kemfert

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Claudia Kemfert (2011)

Claudia Kemfert (born December 17, 1968 in Delmenhorst ) is a German economist . She is head of the Energy, Transport and Environment department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW).

Life

After graduating from the Max-Planck-Gymnasium in Delmenhorst , Kemfert studied economics at the universities of Bielefeld and Oldenburg from 1988 to 1994 . After a two-month research stay at Stanford University , she completed her doctorate in Oldenburg in 1998 . In 1999 she took over the leadership of a junior research group at the Institute for Energy Economics and Rational Energy Use (IER) at the University of Stuttgart . As a visiting professor , she taught at the universities of St. Petersburg (2003/04), Moscow (2000/01) and Siena (1998, 2002/03). From 2000 to 2004, Kemfert held a position as junior professor and headed a junior research group at the University of Oldenburg . From 2004 to 2009 she was Professor of Environmental Economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 2009 to 2019 she was Professor of Energy Economics and Sustainability at the Hertie School in Berlin.

Claudia Kemfert is married and lives in Oldenburg and Berlin.

Offices

Kemfert has been a member of the Advisory Council for Environmental Issues since July 2016 . She advised EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso as well as the World Bank and the UN . Kemfert is a reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). She was also a member of the Lower Saxony Scientific Commission and the Brandenburg Sustainability Advisory Board . She is also a member of the scientific advisory board of the Austrian Institute for Economic Research (WIFO) as well as the Frankfurt Future Council and the TU-Campus EUREF gGmbH. She is also a member of the scientific advisory board of the Energie Campus Nürnberg and the German Biomass Research Center (DBFZ), the Board of Trustees of the Technologiestiftung Berlin , the German Climate Foundation , BAUM and the German Study Prize of the Körber Foundation . She has been on the advisory board of the German Environmental Foundation since 2010 and on the jury of the GreenTec Awards since 2011. She is also a juror for the German Environment Prize . In 2009 she was also a juror for the German Sustainability Award .

research

Kemfert conducts research on the evaluation of the economic effects of climate , energy and transport policy . On the basis of empirical market and macroeconomic impact analyzes , Kemfert developed quantitative models to assess the economic consequences of energy and climate protection policy. These are used in the model network Energy Modeling Forum (EMF).

"Our entire economic system is based on extremely high energy consumption: Energy is the blood of the economy."

- Claudia Kemfert : The fossil empire strikes back. 2017

Positions

Kemfert has been assessing the economic costs of climate change and climate finance since the mid-1990s . Even before the Stern Report , she calculated the economic consequences of climate change at DIW . The costs of preventive climate protection are therefore significantly lower than the possible economic damage due to climate change. Action is cheaper than inaction. For Kemfert, the task of politics is, on the one hand, to initiate a global climate protection policy and, on the other hand, to lay the foundations for adaptation to climate change . Since climate change can hardly be stopped, suitable adaptation strategies such as improved dyke construction, coastal zone management and heat warning systems must be developed and implemented. According to Kemfert, climate protection instruments are affordable. She sees an effective instrument in emissions trading , which was introduced in Europe in 2005 (see EU emissions trading ). Since it was introduced, however, it has been advocating an improvement in the system: in addition to auctioning emission rights, it primarily demands that the EU countries themselves do not define the emission reduction targets. According to Kemfert, these should rather be specified directly by the EU.

Kemfert warns of being overly dependent on fossil fuels : resource scarcity and climate change are the greatest challenges of the 21st century. As a way out, she mentions the restructuring of the energy system: through a secure, CO 2 -free and affordable energy supply, energy shortages and climate protection could be overcome at the same time. Kemfert emphasizes that the energy turnaround is more than the nuclear phase-out, and points out the risk that shutdown nuclear power plants may not be replaced by coal-fired power plants, because otherwise CO 2 emissions in Germany will increase. In order to implement a successful energy policy , Kemfert has been demanding the introduction of an energy ministry in Germany since 2006.

Kemfert sees the Renewable Energy Sources Act as an effective instrument for expanding renewable energies. She rejects a quota model as suggested by other economists.

When plans by the German nuclear power plant operators to bring the German nuclear power plants into a foundation became known in spring 2014, Kemfert wrote that this would only have advantages for the operators and high potential disadvantages for the taxpayer community.

Awards

Politics and media

In 2013, Claudia Kemfert was in sixth place in the FAZ ranking of German economists with the greatest influence on science, politics and the media. In 2014 she was ranked 13th, 2015 in 10th place. Her core tasks at DIW also include research-based policy advice in the fields of energy research and climate protection.

In 2012 she was presented in the shadow cabinet Norbert Röttgens (CDU) as possible energy minister of North Rhine-Westphalia , in 2013 she was appointed to the competence team Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbels (SPD) as possible energy minister of Hesse . Critics have accused Kemfert of being too "agile".

In the film " Power to Change - Die EnergieRebellion ", published in March 2016 , she appears as a university lecturer with critical theses on the fossil energy industry .

Controversy

In the summer of 2008, when the oil price was at a very high level, Kemfert, who considers the oil production maximum to be a real danger , drafted scenarios for further possible, medium-term, drastic price increases. When the oil price fell for a short time, she was criticized for allegedly dubious forecasts. Kemfert then commented on the fundamental impossibility of forecasting oil prices. At that time , Kemfert was accused of “sloppy work” in connection with her book The Other Climate Future: Innovation Instead of Depression .

Publications (selection)

Non-fiction

scientific publications

Broadcast reports

Web links

Commons : Claudia Kemfert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Claudia Kemfert  - Quotes
Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Breuer: Struggle for Delmenhorster power grid: "Conduct is legally contestable". In: New Osnabrück Newspaper . December 29, 2016, accessed October 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ pages.nes.ru ( Memento of February 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ DIW website: Claudia Kemfert .
  4. ↑ claudiakemfert.de: Biography.
  5. ↑ Internet site of the Federal Environment Ministry - BMUB: detailed view. In: www.bmub.bund.de. Archived from the original on July 18, 2016 ; accessed on May 14, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Jakob Meyer: Use the crisis now! Energy expert Claudia Kemfert calls on politicians to act against the climate and energy crisis. on: Information Service Science . June 18, 2009.
  7. ↑ WKN .
  8. ↑ sustainability advisory board.brandenburg.de
  9. ↑ WIFO website .
  10. ↑ frankfurter-zukunftsrat.de .
  11. ↑ Euref-Campus :: de. In: www.euref.de. Retrieved January 18, 2017 .
  12. ↑ EUREF website .
  13. ^ German Biomass Research Center: Research Advisory Board . In: www.dbfz.de. Retrieved May 14, 2016 .
  14. ^ Committees & Articles of Association - Technologiestiftung Berlin. In: www.technologiestiftung-berlin.de. Retrieved May 14, 2016 .
  15. ↑ German Climate Foundation. In: www.deutsche-klimastiftung.de. Retrieved May 14, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Advisory Board and Board of Trustees. In: www.baumev.de. Retrieved May 14, 2016 .
  17. ^ Körber Foundation Hamburg: Board of Trustees. In: www.koerber-stiftung.de. Archived from the original on May 13, 2016 ; accessed on May 14, 2016 .
  18. ↑ deutscheumweltstiftung.de
  19. ↑ GreenTec Awards: Jury. In: www.greentec-awards.com. Archived from the original on May 14, 2016 ; accessed on May 14, 2016 .
  20. ↑ dbu.de ( Memento from January 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  21. ↑ deutscher-nachhaltigkeitspreis.de .
  22. ↑ EMF website .
  23. ↑ Claudia Kemfert: The fossil empire strikes back: Why we have to defend the energy transition now . Murmann Publishers, 2017, p. 132 ( full text in Google Book Search).
  24. ↑ Claudia Kemfert: Save the climate if you can. In: Tagesspiegel. April 12, 2009.
  25. ↑ a b Claudia Kemfert: The costs of climate change: Humans heat the earth - what do they have to pay for it? In: International Politics . February, pp. 38-45.
  26. ↑ Claudia Kemfert: Climate change is costing the German economy billions. In: weekly report. 74/2007, 11, pp. 165-169.
  27. ↑ Claudia Kemfert: The costs of climate change are higher than the costs of climate protection. ( Memento from July 28, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Die Volkswirtschaft. 80, 2007, p. 9, pp. 28-29.
  28. ↑ C. Kemfert, J. Diekmann: European emissions trading: on the way to efficient climate protection. In: weekly report. 73/2006, 46, pp. 661-669.
  29. ↑ Claudia Kemfert: Auctioning instead of giving away! Why it makes sense to aim for a full auction of emission rights. In: Journal for Applied Environmental Research. 18/2007, 1, pp. 9-17.
  30. ↑ Claudia Kemfert: The energy supply must be secure, CO 2 -free and affordable: Germany needs an energy ministry. In: Journal for Economic Policy. 57, 2008, p. 2, pp. 193-203.
  31. ↑ Dietmar Neuerer: The role of nuclear energy is overestimated . online at Handelsblatt.com from March 13, 2011.
  32. ↑ Claudia Kemfert: Germany needs an energy ministry. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . July 4, 2006, p. 18.
  33. ↑ C. Kemfert, K. Neuhoff, W.-P. Schill, T. Traber: Renewable energies: Quota model no alternative to the EEG. In: DIW Wochenblatt. 45, 2012. diw.de (PDF; 126 kB)
  34. ↑ Dana Heide: There will be a solar boom 2.0 . Dispute. In: Handelsblatt. May 29, 2013. online at handelsblatt.com.
  35. ↑ captal.de (guest commentary): Why the bad bank is a bad deal. May 13, 2014.
  36. ↑ honored as a top researcher ("Eleven of Science")
  37. ↑ Curriculum Vitæ (PDF; 140 kB) on the DIW website.
  38. ↑ deutscher-nachhaltigkeitspreis.de ( Memento from March 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  39. ↑ Urania Medal
  40. ↑ BAUM environmental award
  41. ↑ German Society Club of Rome welcomes Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert as a new member. ( Memento of October 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Press release. Berlin, November 30, 2011.
  42. ↑ Two awards for Claudia Kemfert. In: diw.de. German Institute for Economic Research, September 29, 2016, accessed on October 3, 2016 .
  43. ↑ Claudia Kemfert is Reader's Award 2020. February 21, 2020, accessed on February 26, 2020 (German).
  44. ↑ The FAZ ranking: Which economist has the greatest influence on science? . In: FAZ. September 5, 2013, p. 11, online at fazarchiv.faz.net.
  45. ↑ The most influential economists in the overall ranking . online at FAZ.net from September 5, 2013.
  46. ↑ The most influential economists in the overall ranking . online on FAZ.net from September 4, 2014.
  47. ↑ Germany's most influential economists . online at FAZ.net from September 4, 2015.
  48. ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: CDU shadow cabinet in NRW: Röttgen wants Claudia Kemfert as energy minister. In: Der Spiegel Online. Retrieved May 17, 2016 .
  49. ↑ Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel nominates Laura Garavini and Dr. Claudia Kemfert for the areas of Europe / integration, culture and energy. In: SPD State Association Hesse. Archived from the original on May 17, 2016 ; accessed on May 17, 2016 .
  50. ↑ Kristian Frigelj: A woman wanders through the shadow cabinets . In: Welt Online . July 2, 2013 ( [1] [accessed May 17, 2016]).
  51. ↑ Daniel Wetzel: oil price forecasts instead of guessing games . WELT am Sonntag from October 12, 2008. online at welt.de.
  52. ↑ Jürgen König: We are the land of engineers . Interview with Claudia Kemfert. online at Dradio.de from June 11, 2008.
  53. ↑ Claudia Kemfer: Why the oil price is not predictable . Guest commentary, WELT on Sunday, October 19, 2008. online at welt.de.
  54. ↑ Dirk Asendorpf : Climate-neutral for 70 cents a day. on: time online. September 9, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Kemfert, Claudia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th December 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Delmenhorst