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Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert

Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert

Head of Department of the

Energy, Transportation, Environment Department

Research Topics and Working Areas

Prof Dr Claudia Kemfert has been head of the department Energy, Transportation, Environment at the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin) since April 2004 and is Professor of Energy Economics and Energy Policy at the Leuphana University, Till 2019 she was Professor of Energy Economics and Sustaiability at Hertie School of Governance and from 2004-2009 she was Professor of Environmental Economics at Humboldt University.

Claudia Kemfert studied economics at the Universities of Bielefeld and Oldenburg (PhD 1998) and Stanford. As part of a research stay, she was at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) in Milan (1998). From January 1999 to April 2000 she headed the junior research group at the Institute for the Rational Use of Energy at the University of Stuttgart. From 2000 to 2004 Claudia Kemfert held a position as junior professor and headed a junior research group at the University of Oldenburg.

Claudia Kemfert was appointed to the Expert Council for Environmental Issues at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety in 2016. She was an advisor to EU President José Manuel Barroso and is on advisory boards of various research institutions as well as federal and state ministries as well as the EU Commission. Claudia Kemfert was a member of the High Level Expert Group of the EU Environment Commissioner and the Advisory Group on Energy of the European Commission (DG Research). Since 2011 she has been a member of the Executive Committee of the German Society of the Club of Rome.

In 2006, Kemfert was recognized as a top researcher in the Elf der Wissenschaft by the DFG, the Helmholtz and Leibniz Associations. In 2011 she received the Urania Medal and the B.A.U.M Environment Prize in the science category and in 2016 the German Solar Prize and the Adam Smith Prize for market-based environmental policy. 2013 she published her book “Kampf für Strom” (English version “The battle about electricity”) in which she describes the myths of the energy debate. 2017 followed her book “Das fossile Imperium schlägt zurück”. Her latest book „Mondays for Future - Freitags demonstrieren, Samstags diskutieren und am Montag anpacken und umsetzen“ was published in spring 2020.

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Publications

Energies

Designing a Model for the Global Energy System - GENeSYS-MOD: An Application of the Open-Source Energy Modeling System (OSeMOSYS)

2017 | Löffler, K., Hainsch, K., Burandt, T., Oei, P.-Y., Kemfert, C., von Hirschhausen, C.
Energy Policy

A Welfare Analysis of Electricity Transmission Planning in Germany

2016 | Kemfert, C., Kunz, F., Rosellón, J.
DIW Berlin - Politikberatung kompakt 196 / 2023

Energiewirtschaftliche und industriepolitische Bewertung des Energie- und Industrieprojekts Mukran mit dem Bau von LNG-Infrastruktur und Pipelineanbindung nach Lubmin: Endbericht ; Studie im Auftrag der Deutschen Umwelthilfe e.V.

2023| Fabian Präger, Lukas Barner, Franziska Hoffart, Claudia Kemfert, Björn Steigerwald, Christian von Hirschhausen
DIW Wochenbericht 32 / 2023

Wasserstoff ja, aber bitte nur in Grün! Kommentar

2023| Claudia Kemfert
DIW Wochenbericht 27 / 2023

Bundesregierung überschätzt Bedarf an Flüssiggas-Infrastruktur: Kommentar

2023| Claudia Kemfert, Christian von Hirschhausen
Externe Monographien

Politik in der Pflicht: Umweltfreundliches Verhalten erleichtern

Berlin: SRU, 2023, 222 S.
(Sondergutachten / Sachverständigenrat für Umweltfragen)
| Claudia Hornberg, Claudia Kemfert, Christina Dornack, Wolfgang Köck, Wolfgang Lucht, Josef Settele, Annette Elisabeth Töller
Zeitungs- und Blogbeiträge

Drei Schritte vor, zwei zurück

In: Der Tagesspiegel (26.08.2023), S. 24 | Claudia Kemfert
Zeitungs- und Blogbeiträge

Die Bundesregierung überschätzt den Bedarf an Flüssiggas-Infrastruktur

In: Der Tagesspiegel (04.07.2023), [Online-Artikel] | Christian von Hirschhausen, Claudia Kemfert
Weitere externe Aufsätze

LNG Import Capacity Expansion in Germany: Short-term Relief Likely to Turn into Medium-term Stranded Assets

In: IAEE Energy Forum (2023), 2, S. 13-18 | Franziska Holz, Lukas Barner, Karlo Hainsch, Claudia Kemfert, Konstantin Löffler, Björn Steigerwald, Christian von Hirschhausen
Zeitungs- und Blogbeiträge

Wer eine Heizungswende ohne Verbote will, muss zwei Probleme lösen

In: Focus (29.05.2023), [Online-Artikel] | Claudia Kemfert, Niklas Höhne

Lectures

Diskussionsteilnahme

Diskussionsrunde

Claudia Kemfert
Berlin, 07.03.2023
| Endlagersuche und Zukunft der Atomenergie - wie gelingt die Atomwende in Deutschland?: DIW Berlin
Vortrag

Gas- und Wasserstoffmärkte im europäischen Kontext

Franziska Holz, Robin Sogalla, Alexander Roth, Claudia Kemfert, Frank Meißner, Georg Zachmann, Ben McWilliams
Berlin, 23.09.2022
| Infraday-Konferenz 2022, TU Berlin
Vortrag

Gas- und Wasserstoffmärkte im europäischen Kontext

Franziska Holz, Robin Sogalla, Alexander Roth, Claudia Kemfert, Frank Meißner, Georg Zachmann, Ben McWilliams
Berlin, 23.09.2022
| Infrastrukturpolitik im 21. Jahrhundert - Infrastructure Policy in the 21st Century: TU Berlin
Vortrag

DIW-Szenarien für die deutsche Erdgas- und Energieversorgung 2022/2023

Franziska Holz, Robin Sogalla, Claudia Kemfert, Christian von Hirschhausen
Bonn, 24.08.2022
| Gasszenarien-Workshop
Vortrag

Mondays for Future: Wie wir drei Krisen mit einer Klappe schlagen können: Wirtschaftskrise, Energiekrise, Klimakrise

Claudia Kemfert
[Online], 12.07.2022
| BayWa r.e. Solar Projects [Online]

Research Projects

Research Project

CoalExit

Current Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
Research Project

ADaptation And Mitigation Strategies for Europe (ADAM)

Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
Research Project

Biochar in Agriculture – Perspectives for Germany and Malaysia

Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
Research Project

Decarbonisation of energy

Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
Research Project

Die Auswirkungen des Atomausstiegs in Deutschland auf Strompreise und Klimaschutz in Deutschland und Europa

Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
Research Project

Economic Analysis and Evaluation of the Effects of the Renewable Energy Act

Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
Research Project

EMF Energy Modelling Forum

Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
Research Project

European Gas Infrastructure

Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
Research Project

General Economic and Sectoral Effects of the Promotion of Renewable Energies

Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment, Firms and Markets
Research Project

German-Japanese Energy Transition Council (GJETC)

Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
Research Project

Loss Trends of Natural Catastrophes – A New Approach to the Assessment of the Impact of Climate Change

Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
Research Project

Mainstreaming of Climate Risks and Chances in the Finance Sector

Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
Research Project

Mitigation of methane emissions - a rapid and cost-effective response to climate change

Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
Research Project

NAMAs Central Asia

Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
Research Project

Russian Climate and environmental policy development

Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
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