Ottmar Edenhofer

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Ottmar Edenhofer (2008)

Ottmar Georg Edenhofer (born July 8, 1961 in Gangkofen , Lower Bavaria ) is a German economist .

Edenhofer is professor at the Technical University of Berlin and Director (together with Johan Rockström ) as well as chief economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). He is considered an expert in the field of CO 2 pricing .

In 2012 he was appointed director of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), founded jointly by the Mercator Foundation and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in the same year in Berlin . From 2008 to 2015 he was one of the co-chairs of Working Group III of the "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" IPCC , which was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Edenhofer is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg , the Green Growth Knowledge Platform (joint project of the Global Green Growth Institute, the organization for economic cooperation and development)(OECD), United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the World Bank ) and member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering acatech .

Clarivate Analytics counts him among the most cited researchers in the world.

Life

Ottmar Edenhofer studied in Munich , where he graduated from Ludwig Maximilians University in 1987 with a degree in economics (with distinction). 1987-1994 he was a member of the Jesuit order , as which he obtained after the novitiate a Bachelor of Artium of the University of Philosophy in Munich . During his student days, he founded a public health company and from 1991 to 1993 headed a humanitarian aid organization in Croatia and Bosnia. From 1994 to 2000 he worked as a research assistant at the Technical University of Darmstadt , where he wrote his doctoral thesis in the field of economics in 1999 ( summa cum laude ).

Edenhofer is married and has two children. He lives in Potsdam.

activities

Ottmar Edenhofer has been Deputy Director and Chief Economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) since 2007 and is currently Head of Research Area III (“ Sustainable Solution Strategies ”). Together with the employees of the research department, he formulated the “Global Deal” for climate protection and developed the concept for the transatlantic carbon market. At PIK, he also supervises doctoral candidates and students from various departments and leads and coordinates several research projects financed by third parties. In addition to articles in science magazines such as Science , Nature Climate Change , Climatic Change , The Energy Journal, Energy Economics and Energy Policy , Ottmar Edenhofer was involved in a number of other publications, e. B. together with Nick Stern, “The Economics of Climate Change in China: Towards a Low Carbon Economy” or on the report “Global, but fair. Fighting climate change, enabling development ". Under his leadership, the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN) was created.

Ottmar Edenhofer has held the chair for the economics of climate change at the Technical University of Berlin since August 2008 . He is director of the “Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change” (MCC), founded in 2012 and based on the EUREF campus in Berlin, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich, member of the thematic group “Climate, Energy and Environment "of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina Halle (Saale), member of the Advisory Board" Green Growth Knowledge Platform "of the World Bank and member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering ( Acatech ).

Acting in the public climate protection debate

In addition to his research and teaching activities, Ottmar Edenhofer is involved in the public and political climate protection debate in Germany and the EU. Until September 2009 he also advised Federal Foreign Minister and Vice-Chancellor Frank-Walter Steinmeier on issues of global climate policy.

In 2010, as Co-Chair of the working group, he publicly advocated reforming the management and procedures of the IPCC. In an article in the FAZ he demanded that an independent panel of experts should examine the IPCC. This demand found broad support within the IPCC, which led to the fact that the chairman of the IPCC Rajendra Pachauri and the UN Secretary-General jointly commissioned the InterAcademy Council (IAC) to examine the IPCC. This opinion guided the reform process for the IPCC, which was successfully completed in 2012.

In this context, he also spoke in 2010 and 2011 on the relationship between politics and science, in which he called for a pragmatic model of scientific policy advice. His proposals have met with approval from the IPCC authors.

In the German energy transition, too, he took a stand in favor of phasing out nuclear energy. Even before Fukushima he called for an energy turnaround; The extension of the operating times of the nuclear power plants would bring the operators of the power plants additional profits, but the crucial questions of the energy transition remain unsolved.

Together with the PIK staff, in the publication “Global, but just”, he characterized realistic solutions that encompass both the avoidance of serious climate change impacts and adaptation to unavoidable climate change. In this book the climate problem has also been discussed extensively as a problem of international justice. Building on this, a “global deal” for climate and development policy was developed.

He has led several international model comparison studies in which the costs and strategies of emissions avoidance were discussed in detail. These approaches have found their way into the IPCC special report on renewable energies and the avoidance of climate change as well as in the international scientific debate.

Research priorities

Ottmar Edenhofer deals with the influence of technical change on the costs and strategies of climate protection as well as the design of political instruments in the context of climate and energy policy. Further research focuses are the economics of climate stabilization, social cost-benefit analyzes, sustainability theory, the theory of economic growth , environmental economics , welfare theory and intertemporal equilibrium theory.

Memberships

  • since 2007: Member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg
  • since 2008: Member of the Association for Social Policy , Committee for Environmental and Resource Economics
  • since 2009: Member of the "International Association of Energy Economics" (IAEE)
  • since 2009: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich
  • since 2009: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the "EUREF Institute" in Berlin
  • since 2010: Member of the “Climate, Energy & Environment” group of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • since 2010: Member of the promoters group climate / energy of the Research Alliance
  • since 2012: Member of the "Advisory Committee of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform" (joint initiative of the Global Green Growth Institute, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the World Bank)
  • since 2012: Member of the Board of Trustees of Munich Re
  • since 2013: Member of the Energy Transition Research Forum, Economics working group
  • since 2013: Chairman of the Euro-CASE Energy Platform
  • since 2015: Member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering acatech

Publications

Awards

literature

  • Qurin Schiermeier: The Climate Chairman. In: Nature. Vol. 501, September 19, 2013, pp. 303-305. (Portrait of Edenhofer as Chairman of an IPCC Working Group)

Web links

Commons : Ottmar Edenhofer  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/klima-oekonom-ottmar-edenhofer-eine-co2-bepreisung-staänke.868.de.html?dram:article_id=478056
  2. ↑ Ten PIK researchers among the most influential scientists worldwide . PIK press release. Retrieved December 11, 2018.
  3. ↑ Highly Cited Researchers 2018 . Clarivate Analytics . Retrieved December 11, 2018.
  4. ↑ pik-potsdam.de
  5. ↑ Alexander Armbruster: A former Jesuit is now saving the world. In: FAZ.net . November 18, 2009, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Article in the FAZ
  7. ↑ de-ipcc.de
  8. ^ Suggestions for a pragmatic model of scientific policy advice
  9. ↑ http://www.ftd.de/politik/deutschland/:energieversorgung-der-zukunft-vergesst-den-atomkompromiss/50166486.html ( Memento from September 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ O. Edenhofer, H. Lotze-Campen, J. Wallacher, M. Reder (eds.): Global, but just: Fighting climate change, enabling development. Beck Verlag, 2010.
  11. ↑ klima-und-rechte.de ( Memento from December 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ O. Edenhofer, B. Knopf, T. Barker, L. Baumstark, E. Bellevrat, B. Chateau, P. Criqui, M. Isaac, A. Kitous, S. Kypreos, M. Leimbach, K. Lessmann, B. Magné, S. Scrieciu, H. Turton, DP van Vuuren: The Economics of Low Stabilization: Model Comparison of Mitigation Strategies and Costs. In: The Energy Journal. Volume 31 (Special Issue 1). The Economics of Low Stabilization 2010, pp. 11-48, IAEE.
  13. ^ IPCC [O. Edenhofer, R. Pichs-Madruga, Y. Sokona, K. Seyboth, P. Matschoss, S. Kadner, T. Zwickel, P. Eickemeier, G. Hansen, S. Schlömer, C. von Stechow (eds.)]: IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation. Prepared by Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA 2011.
  14. ↑ IPCC: Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [O. Edenhofer, R. Pichs-Madruga, Y. Sokona, E. Farahani, S. Kadner, K. Seyboth, A. Adler, I. Baum, S. Brunner, P. Eickemeier, B. Kriemann, J. Savolainen, S. Schlömer, C. von Stechow, T. Zwickel, JC Minx (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA 2014.
  15. ↑ forschungsunion.de
  16. ^ Romano Guardini Prize to Ottmar Edenhofer: Catholic Academy Bavaria. Retrieved September 2, 2020 .
  17. ↑ https://www.dbu.de/123artikel38764_2442.html
  18. ^ German environmental award for climate researchers from Potsdam. September 2, 2020, accessed September 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Edenhofer, Ottmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Edenhofer, Ottmar Georg (full name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION German climate researcher
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Gangkofen , Lower Bavaria