Ottmar Edenhofer

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Ottmar Edenhofer
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Ottmar Edenhofer
Born Ottmar Georg Edenhofer
(1961-06-08) June 8, 1961 (age 62)
Gangkofen, Lower Bavaria, Germany
Nationality German
Occupation Economist
Known for Climate change economics

Ottmar Georg Edenhofer (born in 1961 in Gangkofen, Lower Bavaria, Germany) is a German economist dealing with climate change policy, environmental and energy policy as well as energy economics. Edenhofer currently holds the professorship of the Economics of Climate Change at the Technical University of Berlin. He is Deputy Director and Chief Economist of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research as well as Director of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change. From 2008 to 2015 he served as one of the co-chairs of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III "Mitigation of Climate Change". Among many other functions he is member of the group "Climate, Energy & Environment" of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, of the Advisory Committee of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform (joint effort of the Global Green Growth Institute, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and World Bank), of the Forschungsforum, Promoter Group Economy, chair of the Euro-CASE Energy Platform and of acatech — German Academy of Science and Engineering.

Education

Edenhofer completed his Diploma in Economics with honors at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich. He belonged the Jesuit Order from 1987–1994 and earned a bachelor's degree in Philosophy with summa cum laude at the Munich School of Philosophy. During this time he also founded an enterprise in the public health sector and lead a humanitarian aid organization in Croatia and Bosnia from 1991–1993. After leaving the Order, Edenhofer worked as a research assistant from 1994–2000 and completed his PhD in Economics with summa cum laude at the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1999.

Career

During 2004–2008 Edenhofer was a lead author of the Fourth Assessment Report on Climate Change published by the IPCC in 2007. The IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize the same year.[1]

Since 2007, Edenhofer is deputy director and chief economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), co-charing Research Domain III "Sustainable Solutions", which focuses on the scientific research of the economics of atmospheric stabilization. In close cooperation with the research domain’s staff he formulated the concept “Global Deal” for climate protection as well as developed a concept for the transatlantic carbon market. In addition, he supervises several PhD as well as Diploma Students at PIK. He is also in charge of the coordinating various third-party-funded research projects.[2][3][4][5]

Since 2008, Edenhofer holds the professorship for Economics of Climate Change at the Technical University of Berlin. From 2008 to 2015 he served as co-chair of Working Group III "Mitigation of Climate Change" of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In 2012 he became director of the newly founded Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC). Among many other engagements, Edenhofer is a member of the Forschungsunion Science-Industry Cooperation, Promoter Group Climate Energy, the group "Climate, Energy & Environment" of the German National Academy of Science Leopoldina, the Advisory Committee of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform (joint effort of the Global Green Growth Institute, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Environment Programme (UNEP), and World Bank), of the Forschungsforum, Promoter Group Economy, chair of the Euro-CASE Energy Platform and of the German Academy of Science and Engineering acatech. Besides his teaching and research activities, he actively contributes to public debates about political climate protection measures in Germany and the European Union.

Research interests

Professor Ottmar Edenhofer’s research explores the impact of induced technological change on mitigation costs and mitigation strategies, as well as the design of instruments for climate and energy policy. He specializes in the Economics of Atmospheric Stabilization, Social Cost-Benefit Analysis, Sustainability Theory, Economic Growth Theory, Environmental Economics, Welfare Theory and General Intertemporal Equilibrium Theory.

Philosophy and position on climate change

In a profile published in Nature in 2013, Edenhofer says that his interest in philosophy and economics was influenced by his readings of the works of Karl Marx, Max Weber, Ludwig Wittgenstein and John Dewey. Regarding climate change he says: ”Denying out and out that climate change is a problem for humanity, as some cynics do, is an unethical, unacceptable position.”[6]

He favours cap-and-trade over a direct carbon tax as the most efficient method to reduce greenhouse emissions and encourage innovation to preserve the climate. He feels strongly that moving the global economy to a low-carbon threshold requires huge increases in the use of renewable energy across all economic sectors.[7]

Fellowships

  • since 2007: Fellow of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg, Germany[8]
  • since 2008: Fellow of the German Association Socialpolitik, Research Committee Environmental and Resource Economics[9]
  • since 2009: Fellow of the International Association of Energy Economics[10]
  • since 2009: Member of the Scientific Advisory Council at the Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research[11]
  • since 2009: Member of the Scientific Advisory Council at the EUREF-Institute in Berlin
  • since 2010: Member of the group "Climate, Energy & Environment" of the German National Academy of Science Leopoldina[12]
  • since 2012: Member of the Advisory Committee of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform (joint effort of the Global Green Growth Institute, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and World Bank)[13]
  • since 2012: Member of the foundation council of Munich Re[14]
  • since 2013: Member of the Forschungsforum, Promoter Group Economy[15]
  • since 2013: Chair of the Euro-CASE Energy Platform[16]
  • since 2015: Member of acatech — German Academy of Science and Engineering

Publications

References

  1. ↑ http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Al_Gore%27s_Nobel_Peace_Prize_acceptance_speech
  2. ↑ http://globalabergerecht.de/
  3. ↑ http://globalabergerecht.de/Publikationen.64.0.html
  4. ↑ http://www.pik-potsdam.de/members/edenh/research/research
  5. ↑ http://www.pik-potsdam.de/research/sustainable-solutions/projects/current-projects/externally-funded-projects
  6. ↑ "The Climate Chairman", Nature, v. 501, pp 304-306, 19 Sept 2013
  7. ↑ IPCC: The climate chairman Quirin Schiermeier 18 September 2013. Nature Vol 501, Issue 7467
  8. ↑ http://www.awhamburg.de/mitglieder/korrespondierende-mitglieder/detail/memberList/Ottmar%20Edenhofer/cHash/276ff26f62cc1088076da66b19fade6a.html?no_cache=1
  9. ↑ http://www.cer.ethz.ch/auroe/mitglieder/members.pdf
  10. ↑ http://www.iaee.org/en/
  11. ↑ http://www.cesifo-group.de/portal/page/portal/ifoHome/f-about/f3aboutifo/40ifobodies/_ifobodies?item_link=wiss-beirat.htm
  12. ↑ http://www.leopoldina.org/de/politik/themengruppen-der-akademie/klima-energie-und-umwelt.html
  13. ↑ http://www.greengrowthknowledge.org/about/advisory-committee
  14. ↑ https://www.munichre.com/site/corporate/get/documents_E-12349725/mr/assetpool.shared/Documents/4_Corporate%20Responsibility/Downloads/munichre-foundation-report2012-de.pdf
  15. ↑ https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/edenhofer-to-advise-201eenergiewende-research-forum201d?set_language=en
  16. ↑ https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/politikberatung-fuer-eu-entscheider-edenhofer-leitet-neue-energieplattform

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