Thursday: Environmental policy advise based on scientific research
The session deals with science-based policy advise. Building on experiences as head of the Energy Expert Committee of the German Government to Monitor the Energy Transition, questions on the interface between research and policy implementation will be discussed. What is the format of policy advice? What are the expectations from the ministries and how can academic rigor and relevancy by balanced? What are opportunities and potential careers?
Lecturer/Convenor
Andreas Löschel
Andreas Löschel is Professor for Microeconomics, especially energy and resource economics, at University of Münster since 2014. He is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Crawford School of Economics & Government, Australian National University in Canberra. Prior to that he led the Department “Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Management“ at Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH (ZEW) and was Professor of Economics at University of Heidelberg. Since 2011 he chairs the expert commission on the montoring process "Energie der Zukunft" of the German Federal Government.He was a lead author for the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. His research interests are international environmental economics, especially the economics of climate change and energy policy and quantitative economic modelling.
Karl Steininger
Karl Steininger received his education in Economics and Computer Science at the University of Vienna and UC Berkeley. In research he specialized in environmental, and ecological economics, and in international trade. Since 1999 he is professor at the Department of Economics and since 2004 head of the socioeconomic programme of the Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, both at the University of Graz, Austria. He is lecturer at the Vienna based University of Life Sciences, and is Research Professor at the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW), Berlin and chairs the Climate Change Centre Austria. Previously he held positions in the World Bank (Environment Department) and at the University of Triest, Italy (Guest Professor). He has led national and international interdisciplinary research projects for more than two decades (on behalf of the World Bank, the OECD and various national research funding agencies).
