Niklas Höhne

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Niklas Höhne (2019)

Niklas Höhne (* 1970 ) is a German climate researcher and expert on national and international climate protection . He is a professor at Wageningen University and heads the NewClimate Institute.

Life

Höhne studied physics at RWTH Aachen and INSA Lyon . In 1997 he completed his studies with a diploma in physics at RWTH Aachen University. From 1998 to 2001 he worked as a member of the UNFCCC Secretariat supporting the international climate negotiations, e. B. on topics of reporting, estimation of future emissions, fluorinated greenhouse gases and international transport. In 2001 he switched to the consulting company Ecofys. In 2005 he received his doctorate from the University of Utrecht with the dissertation "What is next after the Kyoto Protocol - Assessment of options for international climate policy post 2012". From 2009 he was director of energy and climate policy at Ecofys. Together with colleagues, he founded the NewClimate Institute in 2014, a non-profit research institute for climate policy . In 2017 he was appointed Special Professor “Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions” at Wageningen University.

Act

In his diploma thesis Photothermal Deflection Spectroscopy as a method for characterizing solar cells made of amorphous silicon , Höhne already dealt with the technology of renewable energies. He has written numerous studies and scientific articles on climate policy. Höhne is the “Lead Author” on international climate protection measures in the fourth and fifth assessment reports of the IPCC , which received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

Höhne is one of the authors of the UNEP Emissions Gap Report (2010 to 2018), which measures the progress of global climate protection. His work on the burden-sharing of emissions reductions led to the much-cited statement by the IPCC that industrialized countries must reduce their emissions by 25% to 40% by 2020 and 80% to 95% by 2050 in order to be compatible with the target of climate change 2 ° C. He developed the “Climate Action Tracker”, which makes emission reduction proposals from all countries transparent in the context of climate negotiations.

In the public debate about ways out of the climate crisis , Höhne advocates a switch to a post-fossil fuel economy and a schedule for the use of emission-free technologies; For example, with reference to the successes of the California Air Resources Board , he calls for the exclusive use of renewable energies for all power plants built from then on , a ban on the sale of CO 2 -emitting vehicles from the early 2020s and a ban on CO 2 emissions from industrial plants the year 2025.

Publications (selection)

  • Höhne, N., den Elzen, MGJ, Weiss, M., 2006. Common but differentiated convergence (CDC): a new conceptual approach to long-term climate policy. Climate Policy, 6, 181-199.
  • with Michel den Elzen, Martin Weiss: Common but differentiated convergence (CDC). A new conceptual approach to long-term climate policy. In: Climate Policy. 6, 2, 2006, pp. 181-199, doi: 10.1080 / 14693062.2006.9685594 .
  • den Elzen, MGJ, Höhne, N., 2008. Reductions of greenhouse gas emissions in Annex I and non-Annex I countries for meeting concentration stabilization targets. An editorial comment. Climatic Change, 91, 249-274.
  • den Elzen, MGJ, Höhne, N., 2010. Sharing the reduction effort to limit global warming to 2 ° C. Climate Policy, 10, 247-260.
  • Höhne, N., Blum, H., Fuglestvedt, J., Skeie, RB, Kurosawa, A., Hu, G., Lowe, J., Gohar, L., Matthews, B., Nioac de Salles, AC, Ellermann, C., 2011. Contributions of individual countries' emissions to climate change and their uncertainty. Climatic Change, 106, 359-391
  • Dubash, NK, Hagemann, M., Höhne, N., Upadhyaya, P., 2013. Developments in national climate change mitigation legislation and strategy. Climate Policy, 13, 649-664.
  • with Michel den Elzen , Donovan Escalante : Regional GHG reduction targets based on effort sharing. A comparison of studies. In: Climate Policy . 14, 1, 2014, pp. 122–147, doi: 10.1080 / 14693062.2014.849452 .
  • Stavins, RN, Zou, J., Brewer, T., Grand, MC, Elzen, M. den, Finus, M., Gupta, J., Höhne, N., Lee, M.-K., Michaelowa, A ., Paterson, M., Ramakrishna, K., Wen, G., Wiener, J., Winkler, H., 2014. Chapter 13: International Cooperation: Agreements & Instruments, Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
  • with Joeri Rogelj , Michel den Elzen, Taryn Fransen , Hanna Fekete , Harald Winkler, Roberto Schaeffer , Fu Sha , Keywan Riahi , Malte Meinshausen : Paris Agreement climate proposals need a boost to keep warming well below 2 C. In: Nature . 534, 7609, 2016, p. 631, doi: 10.1038 / nature18307 .
  • Kuramochi, T., Höhne, N., Schaeffer, M., Cantzler, J., Hare, B., Deng, Y., Sterl, S., Hagemann, M., Rocha, M., Yanguas-Parra, PA , Mir, G.-U.-R., Wong, L., El-Laboudy, T., Wouters, K., Deryng, D., Blok, K., 2018. Ten key short-term sectoral benchmarks to limit warming to 1.5 ° C. Clim. Policy 18: 287-305. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2017.1397495
  • Höhne, N., den Elzen, M., Rogelj, J., Metz, B., Fransen, T., Kuramochi, T., Olhoff, A., Alcamo, J., Winkler, H., Fu, S. , Schaeffer, M., Schaeffer, R., Peters, G., Maxwell, S., Dubash, N., 2020. Emissions: world has four times the work or one-third of the time. Nature 579, pp. 25-27.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://newclimate.org/newclimate-experts/niklas-hoehne/
  2. ↑ Niklas Höhne: What is next after the Kyoto Protocol? Assessment of options for international climate policy post 2012 . Techne Press ,, Amsterdam 2012, ISBN 90-8594-005-2 .
  3. ↑ https://www.wur.nl/de/Personen/Niklas-dr.-NE-Niklas-Hoehne.htm
  4. ↑ Niklas Höhne: Photothermal deflection spectroscopy as a method to characterize solar cells based on amorphous silicon . Diploma thesis, RWTH Aachen, 1997.
  5. ↑ J Rogelj, M den Elzen, N Höhne, T Fransen, Fekete H, H Winkler: Paris Agreement climate proposals need a boost to keep warming well below 2 ° C . In: Nature . 534, 2016, pp. 631-639.
  6. ↑ J Rogelj, J Nabel, C Chen, W Hare, K Markmann, M Meinshausen, M Schaeffer, K Macey, N Höhne: Copenhagen Accord pledges are paltry . In: Nature . 464, 2010, pp. 1126-1128.
  7. ↑ Status report of the IPCC. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .
  8. ↑ UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2018. Accessed April 25, 2019 .
  9. ↑ S. Gupta, D. Tirpak, N. Burger, J. Gupta, N. Höhne, AI Boncheva, GM Kanoan, C. Kolstad, JA Kruger, A. Michaelowa, S. Murase, J. Pershing, T. Saijo, A. Sari: Policies, Instruments and Co-operative Arrangements, Climate Change 2007: Mitigation. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, and New York, NY 2007.
  10. ^ MGJ den Elzen, N. Höhne: Reductions of greenhouse gas emissions in Annex I and non-Annex I countries for meeting concentration stabilization targets. An editorial comment. . In: Climatic Change . 91, 2008, pp. 249-274.
  11. ^ MGJ den Elzen, N. Höhne: Sharing the reduction effort to limit global warming to 2 ° C. . In: Climate Policy . 10, 2010, pp. 247-260.
  12. ^ Climate Action Benchmarks. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .
  13. ↑ What if climate researchers ruled the world. In: Zeit Online. Retrieved May 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Höhne, Niklas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Höhne, Niklas Eberhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German climate researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1970